Physical Education

The MAT employs secondary trained specialist PE teachers who coordinate all aspects of sport across the Trust. This ensures high quality PE lessons, a range of extra curricular clubs, access to competition and opportunities to watch elite sport.

Physical Education

Children develop their social and cognitive skills across a range of individual and team sports during their PE lessons. Our children become physically confident, enjoy their PE lessons and improve their well-being, health and fitness.

All pupils in the Trust learn to swim a minimum of 25 metres by the end of Key Stage 2.

Festivals, competitions and tournaments

All pupils are encouraged to take part in sporting competition. Each half term the Trust runs a sporting tournament for teams of KS1 & KS2 pupils from each of our schools. Children also take part in cross country races in the Autumn and Spring Term and a Grass Track Cycling Series in the summer.

Elite Sport

Each term pupils have the opportunity to watch professional elite sport including; football, rugby, basketball, horse racing, and cricket. This affords them the opportunity to talk to and work with professional athletes.

Swimming

What does the national curriculum say about swimming?

All children should be able to swim 25m by the end of primary school. By the end of primary school, all children should be able to swim 25 metres unaided and use a range of strokes effectively.

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