Physical activities within the curriculum ensure that the fundamentals of agility, balance and co-ordination are at the heart of learning and that our children are active for sustained periods of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18775,"parent":16261,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/flexible-content-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":{"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","columns":"1","content_one":"
Honesty, Respect, Teamwork, Self-Belief, Determination and Passion. These are the national School Games Values and we have embraced these wholeheartedly; now embedded into our School Behaviour Policy.<\/p>\r\nPhysical activities within the curriculum ensure that the fundamentals of agility, balance and co-ordination are at the heart of learning and that our children are active for sustained periods of time. We offer a wide range of sports that include; netball, hockey, basketball, cross country, athletics, swimming, sports hall athletics, gymnastics, cricket, tennis, tri golf and dance.\r\n\r\nWe encourage all of our pupils to succeed and excel in physically demanding activities, and in competitive sport, emphasising personal development to accommodate varying levels of fitness. This ensures that all our pupils become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness.\r\n\r\nThere are targets at the end of each Key Stage that pupils are expected to reach along with a knowledge and understanding of skills and processes. This includes a general understanding of physical health and fitness.\r\n\r\nEffective delivery of high-quality PE, physical activity and school sport can support wider school aims including raised attainment, development of life skills and increased emotional wellbeing of young people.\r\n\r\nAt St Joseph\u2019s, we follow a wonderful scheme called \u2018Get Set 4 P.E.\u2019. This scheme allows our teachers to deliver outstanding lessons in a range of sports and physical activities. Each lesson plan has progressive activities that are designed to inspire and engage your pupils, allowing them to explore and develop skills and embed knowledge. The lessons are accompanied by supporting resources including resource cards, skills videos and music. Teaching points appear throughout to help teachers with their subject knowledge and differentiation tasks provide activities with simple changes to appropriately challenge all of your pupils.\r\n\r\nClick here<\/a> for free resources from the scheme. These will allow you to be active at home as a family. They are also great fun!\r\n\r\nA number of sport-specific coaches, often from our school\/club link clubs, are engaged to support our school development in areas such as cricket, gymnastics, rugby and hockey including:\r\n\r\n \t