Physical Education
At Thurton CE Primary School, one of our main curriculum aims is to provide a solid foundation to enable children to be confident in leading their lives in a healthy and safe way. We believe that our PE curriculum provides opportunities to inspire, motivate and equip all pupils with the knowledge and skills necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle and continue with physical activity for life. We aim to inspire a lifelong love of sport and physical activity.
Our aims:
- High engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity each week.
- Every child should leave our primary school able to swim.
- All pupils have opportunities to engage in competitive sports and activities within school and outside of school.
- A ‘togetherness’ culture will be promoted across the school.
- Our outside area promotes physical activity during break times which supplements our curriculum offer.
- Our Collective Worship supplements our PE intentions by helping embed values like respect and fairness.
Our PE curriculum is delivered and implemented through Norwich City FC CSF School Sports programme and by Premier Sports. We offer a range of team sports which are taught throughout the year on a Friday. These include: multi-skills (travelling, sending, receiving, games, striking, athletics) for years reception to Year 2 and: football, hockey, netball, rugby, cricket and athletics for Years 3 to 6. We also offer dance and gymnastics to all year groups taught on a Monday throughout the year. All our instructors are qualified to a minimum of Level 2 and we are very lucky to have a qualified Level 3 gymnastic coach to deliver our gymnastics curriculum. Our swimming lessons are delivered by Little Fish at Hewitt Academy swimming pool during the second half of the school year.
Over the past twelve academic years, the Foundation has continued to develop a high quality, yet cost effective, way of covering Planning, Preparation and Assessment (PPA) release time, through their School Sport Programme.
The comprehensive programme assigns qualified coaches to schools to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum offer from developing fundamental movement skills to developing technical skills in preparation for competition; delivered within a nurturing environment where the holistic development of pupils is as important as the physical.
