St George's School, Colchester

PE at St George’s School provides children with the knowledge and understanding, capabilities and attributes necessary for social and physical wellbeing now and in the future. Through high quality PE provision, children will be taught the skills needed which enable them to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. The PE curriculum at the school gives children the opportunities to become positive in their approach to physical activity, achieve personal success in the subject and develop a sense of pride that provides them with the confidence to try new sporting experiences through the next stages of their life. We are fortunate enough to be working with EPC who not only provide some fantastic after school clubs, but deliver specialised PE sessions. Each class will get the opportunity to participate in these sessions on a half termly basis, meaning the EPC coaches will deliver these sessions once a week, per class.

We provide swimming in Key Stage 2 at a local swimming pool. Year 5 will access 8 weeks of swimming lessons. 

Following the curriculum, pupils are taught to:

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• use a range of strokes effectively (for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke)
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

At St George’s we offer a range of after-school sports clubs.

During the Autumn term, we offered the following clubs; Multi-skills, Multi-sports, Football and gymnastics. For the spring term, these will be the same with the addition of athletics. This is to ensure that children across the school have the opportunity to partake in the same sports. You will be notified via Arbor when the clubs go live, where you will then be able to sign your child up to the clubs.

Clubs will begin on week 2 of the new half term/term and finish the week before the end of the half term/term. All of these details will be sent directly to parents/carers.

Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

Pupils should be taught to:

• master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as
• developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
• participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
• perform dances using simple movement patterns.

Pupils should continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They should develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.

Pupils should be taught to:

• use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
• play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton,
• basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
• develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance [for example, through athletics and gymnastics]
• perform dances using a range of movement patterns
• take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
• compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.