"Physically educated persons are those who have learned to arrange their lives in such a way that the habitual physical activities they freely engage in make a distinctive contribution to their wider flourishing."
James MacAllister

Mission Statement

Rooted in gospel values St Cecilia’s Catholic School Community lives together, learns together, loves together.

Vision Statement 

St Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School believes that physical education is an essential part of a child’s educational development. We aim to develop a broad, rich and engaging curriculum offering a variety of activities to enhance skills in physical education and provide all children with a range of opportunities and experiences. Positive and inclusive participation in physical education will enable children to build self-esteem, team work, and positive values and attitudes transferable to other areas of the curriculum and helping children to be the best members of our community that they can be.

We aim to:

• Develop confidence, skills and knowledge.
• Develop physical literacy
• Provide new quality sporting opportunities
• Be proud of achievements.
• Promote fair play and respect, the way Jesus would want us to
• Encourage children to live healthy, active lives.
• Engage in competitive sports and activities.

PE at St Cecilia's Junior School

Here at St Cecilia's, we enjoy a variety of different PE sessions and extra-curricular activities. We endeavour to ensure that children get 2 sessions of PE per week; this may be in the form of Sports, Athletics, Dance, Swimming and/or Gymnastics. These sessions are delivered by class teachers, our Sports Coach, or external providers. 

We offer our children a broad range of sports extra-curricular activities throughout the year which have included dodgeball, multi-sklls, cross-country, football, gymnastics and athletics.

Children must have their PE kit in on their class PE day. This will change each half term due to the rotation of lessons. More information on this can be found on the weekly news letter.

Children can wear the school PE kit or tracksuit. Sensible trainers or pumps must be worn in PE lessons.

In addition to these sessions, all children take part in "Fun, Fit, Friday" where they run the School Mile. All children wear their PE kits on Friday and complete the run in year groups, to encourage a healthy lifestyle.

My Personal Best

To support the whole child approach, The Youth Sports Trust have developed a product called My Personal Best.  This programme supports children to develop as a whole progressively and uses a life skills approach to teaching PE.  It supports every child to flourish and to achieve their personal best in PE, in school and life. 

At KS1 the focus is on giving pupils a strong foundation                                

At lower KS2 the scheme promotes core Strengths. Support pupils’ personal growth.

At upper KS2 the pupils develop their performance Skills and enable pupils to act independently.

More information on My Personal Best can be found at www.youthsporttrust.org/mypersonalbest.

Relax-ED

Children have been taking part in Relax-ED sessions, run  by their class teachers. The sessions promote mindfulness and well-being and provide relaxation techniques to relieve stress. This helps the children to feel calm, which is vital for classroom learning. The positive nature of the sessions promotes a "Can Do" attitude and contributes to a healthy mind and an awareness of positive mental health. 

What we’re up to!

You can find out what we are up to by visiting out Twitter page @StCeciliascjs

And search for the following hashtag;

#StCeciliasPE

Indoor Athletics Competition, November 2022

Inclusion and belonging at the heart of our Bowling Competition October 2022

Pupil Voice

We love PE at St Cecilia's Junior School. Here are some of the things our children have to say about their PE sessions: 

"I'm really proud of how strong my arms have got through playing dodgeball in PE lessons and at playtimes," Joseph, Year 4.

"PE is important because it helps you to know right and wrong!" Taylor, Year 4.

"PE helps me to learn skills for the future," Sinead, Year 5. 

"Yes, like skills to be a basketball player!" Charlie, Year 5.

"We sometimes Maths in PE, like when we play basketball we need to use angles to help us to aim!" Fynton, Year 5.

"The PE gets more challenging every year; we've practised more so everyone is getting better and better and winning gets harder!" Harrie, Year 6.

"It's important because it helps s to get fit and reduce stress. It makes us more willing to try new things because we are stronger and have more confidence," Amy, Year 6.

Pupil voice collected November 2018.

 

Sports Day 2024 

We had an excellent time taking part in Sports Day in KS2. There were lots of different events and so many certificates to hand out! Everyone performed excellently and showed amazing sportsmanship!