Physical Education

PE at St Anne's...

At St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, we want every child to be happy and enthusiastic learners of Physical Education, and to be eager to achieve their very best in order to fulfil their God-given talents. We firmly believe that the recipe for success is high quality first-wave teaching in Physical Education, which is central to the life of our happy, caring school.

What Our Pupils Say...

Lyla - "My favourite thing is the warm ups and the games because sometimes we play foxes and rabbits. PE is important because it helps you get nice and strong!"

Kisu - "I like co-ordination because I like throwing and things that are fast. PE makes you good so that when you fall you can balance yourself really well so you won't fall."

Phoebe - "In PE we do tennis and I like hitting the ball up and down. This year, I've got better at balancing. PE is good because you get lots of exercise and we get to run around. You get to learn new things!"

Brodhi - "My favourite thing is improving, I've got better at hopping. PE is important because you can burn calories! We get to get up and move around. I like working with partners."

Ana-Maria - "I like learning new things and using apparatus. You get better in PE by learning it and practising."

Norah - "I like PE because I like how we play tennis and get to do different things and use the apparatus. I think you should practise at home and keep practising in school. I like how we throw the ball in tennis and when we do gymnastics.”

Lila  - "I like PE because I like how there's different levels of challenges and I'm getting onto the harder challenges. PE is important to exercise your body.”

Camden - "I like the balancing because it's a new challenge. PE helps you to develop loads of skills because if you're playing tennis you need to move quickly and if you're balancing you can develop your leg muscles so you move quicker.”

Athletics

KS2 competed in an inter-school athletics competition at Rowley Park and were amazing! They showed excellent determination, teamwork and sportsmanship throughout and the day. They should all be very proud!

Highlights of the day included:

- Immy winning Y6 girls rounders ball throw with a MASSIVE 25.6m

- Staś winning Y3 boys 50m sprint

- Isabelle 3rd Y6 girls shotput

- Seb 2nd Y6 boys shotput

- Camden 3rd Y4 boys 50m sprint

- Liliana 2nd Y6 girls 75m sprint

- Tola 2nd Y3 girls skipping

- Luke winning Y5 boys 100m sprint

- Y4 relay team 3rd place 4x50m sprint 

- Y3 relay team 2nd place 4x50m sprint 

All the children who competed should be incredibly proud - medals or not - of how hard they tried!

House Sports Challenge 

One child from each year group, from each of our four houses, competed in our House Sports Challenge. They competed to earn points for their team in variety of activities from skipping to the egg and spoon race! This competition aimed to promote physical activity in an inclusive, fun environment and gave our older pupils a chance to develop their leadership skills. 

Miss Hutchinson and Mr Withers were VERY impressed with everyone who took part! Well done all!

After 7 session of hard work, year 3/4 gymnastics club put on an amazing performance for their friends and families. They spent 3 weeks creating their own routines from scratch to showcase everything they had learnt over the term. Thank you to everyone who came to watch and well done to all the incredible gymnasts!

Inspirational Women in Sport

As part of women's history month, Year 5 completed projects looking at different inspirational women in Sport. The pupils researched a range of different athletes from a range of different sports. To complete their projects Year 5 also photographed themselves taking part in the same sport as their chosen athlete!

Sports Competitions 

Throughout the year there are also many opportunities to take part in competitions with other local schools! 

St Anne's football team played in the Catholic Primary Football Competition at Blessed William Howard during September.  They played several ties and won every one and ultimately, the tournament! 

Stoke City 'Play on the Pitch'

Two teams from KS2 were invited to Stoke City's 'Play on the Pitch' event. The teams were treated to a guide of the tunnel as well as the home and away dressing rooms! Then the teams had an incredible experience playing multiple matches on the actual pitch in front of many cheering friends and relatives! 

After school clubs

-Throughout the year we offer a range of different sports clubs. These are run by an external provider ASM and within school.

Current Sports clubs are:

• ASM Multi Sports Club (Year 1,2 and 3). Tuesdays until 4:20pm
• ASM Multi Sports Club (Year 4, 5 and 6). Wednesdays until 4:20pm

Upcoming Sports clubs include:

• Rounders 
• Gymnastics

Keep an eye out for more updates on these and to sign up!

Dodgeball

One of our after school clubs for the Spring term has been Dodgeball, pupils have had a fabulous time playing dodgeball with pupils from other classes!