PHYSICAL EDUCATION

AT ST MARY & ST JOSEPHS

OUR VISION

Here at St Mary and St Joseph’s Primary School (SMSJ) we put PESSPA at the heart of our wonderful school. Our Physical Education provision ensures that children experience a safe and supportive environment that helps build a lifelong passion for sport and health. We recognise that for children to be able to perform in PE with increased confidence and competence and to advance knowledge, skills and understanding, a holistic approach is needed. Pupils learn to understand that PE is a subject that plays a huge role for their social, emotional and cognitive development as well as their spiritual, cultural and moral development and are allowed ways to explore this. A physically literate child will have the confidence and knowledge to develop a love of movement and be active for life- this is our aim at SMSJ.

Each child, regardless of gender, race or ability will be given the opportunity to take part in positive, fun, challenging lessons that linked with our S.P.I.R.I.T values, will help them to become innovative, independent members of society who will not be afraid to participate in, take risks and even lead situations.

Specially-designed units of work linked to the PE National Curriculum created by the 'Beyond the Physical' team are explored, taught and built upon by the PE specialist from EYFS-Year 6 pupils. A balanced and broad PE curriculum focused on the mastery of fundamental movement skills, and a wide variety of extra-curricular opportunities, competitions and activities are available to enable all children to achieve the 4 aims of the National Curriculum.  Learning will be revisited if necessary each year to ensure progress is made and that there is secure knowledge and understanding of skills. A mixture of traditional and new emerging sports are played during the year and through assessment and constant observations, groups focused on SEN, pupil premium and our High achieving children are ran throughout the week.

Beyond the Physical Learning Themes are easy-to-use, friendly resources for planning and delivering high-quality PE. Each Learning Theme is centred around three key words, which are the success criteria for the unit.  The PE specialist uses these as a base to build upon and create the best lessons and curriculum suited to our pupils. 
 

Families are encouraged to explore activities outside of school and supported with ideas and decisions that will help the children to be brave enough to join clubs and gain the confidence and skills to become physically active for life. Our PESSPA notice board celebrates the activities and achievements that our pupils do in and outside of school and encourages our younger children to aspire to their older role models. 

SPRING 1 - CLUBS and ACTIVITIES 🏀⚽️🎾🕺🏼
 

Spring 2 Extra-Curricular 

YEAR 5 & 6 GIRLS ONLY MULTI SPORTS - Tuesdays till 4pm 

YEAR 1, 2, 3 DANCE CLUB - Thursdays till 4pm 

Morning PE clubs this half term 

Year 1,2,3 Fitness, fun & fundamentals - Tuesday 8.15am 

Year 4,5,6 Fitness, fun & games - Wednesday 8.15am

Year 4,5,6 Games - Thursday 8.15am 

EXTRA FUN & ACTIVITIES 

BOCCIA competition at St Bedes 

ULTIMATE FRISBEE taster session & club 

TRAMPOLINING at OLSJ High School 

Professional dancer DOMINIQUE BOYLE - Bollywood dance & party day - Cultural Capital  

Wigan Warriors rugby sessions, club after school and staff CPD 

Autumn 2 Term Activities at SMSJ

Autumn 2 Extra-Curricular

Years 5 & 6 Netball club Tuesdays till 4pm

Junior BOCCIA Club Thursdays till 4pm

Year 5 & 6 Girls FOOTBALL Club – Wednesdays till 4pm

MORNING PE CLUBS THIS HALF TERM: 8.15am start

Year 1, 2, 3 Tuesdays 8.15am – Fitness, fun & fundamentals

Wednesdays Year 4, 5 & 6 – Gymnastics (Recognise, link, redraft)

Year 4,5 & 6 Thursday 8.15am - Fitness, fun, traditional and emerging sports

In school helping our children improve their skills and hopefully give them the confidence to join a club outside of school:

Blackburn Rovers FC – Mondays 1.30-3.pm– Joy of Moving project – Healthy Lifestyles – linked with PSHE -Year 5 for 5 weeks

Chance to Shine Cricket Coach – Encouraging links with outside clubs – Year 1 & 3- Tuesday 1-3pm for 5 weeks.

Beth Moss – Lammack Football club - Encouraging links with outside clubs – Year 1 – 11-12noon - Thursdays

AUTUMN 1 TERM 

We have had a fantastic first term here at SMSJ. We have been working hard on our Beyond The Physical learning themes and have had so much fun as well as learning lots of new skills including how to connect with our learning partner and evaluate our performances. As well as this, we have been all been exploring our dance skills, teamwork, cooperation and SMSJ S.P.I.R.I.T.  Year 6 have created their own games and rules and have impressed us with their creativity and resilience.  
We have had lots of extra curricular clubs and have had over 140 attendees every week. We have played basketball, worked on fundamental movement skills, human naughts & crosses, switch, 4 square, table tennis, dance, football  and many many more. 
 

Well done everyone. 
We are so proud of you. 
Enjoy the pics/vids 

WELCOME BACK EVERYONE!

I can't wait to see all the children in their PE kits and get going with our new curriculum. We are going to learn so much and have lots of fun.!

***EXCITING NEWS***

EXTRA-CURRICULAR CLUBS ARE BACK ON!!!

AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS THIS HALF TERM:

Years 4, 5, 6 DANCE club 
Tuesdays till 3.55pm
Letter going out today with pupils.

Year 5 & 6 NETBALL Club
Thursdays till 4pm
Letter going out today with pupils.

Year 5 & 6 FOOTBALL Club
Wednesdays till 4pm with Mr Fernandez
Letter going out today with pupils.

MORNING PE CLUBS THIS HALF TERM:

OPEN TO ALL PUPILS IN YEAR 3, 4, 5, 6.
START AT 8.15AM.
COME IN PE KIT AND PLEASE BRING UNIFORM TO SCHOOL TO GET CHANGED INTO.
WAIT AT THE FRONT DOORS AT THE OFFICE OR COME TO BREAKFAST CLUB FIRST.

Tuesdays 8.15am - FITNESS SESSION - GET FITTER AND HEALTHIER WHILST HAVING FUN TO MUSIC
Wednesday 8.15am - IMPROVE YOUR FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS AND ENJOY OUR TRADITIONAL AND EMERGING SPORTS
Thursday 8.15am - IMPROVE YOUR FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS AND ENJOY OUR TRADITIONAL AND EMERGING SPORTS

ALL PUPILS, IN ALL CLASSES WILL GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE PART IN EXTRA-CURRICULAR CLUBS OVER THE YEAR!

THANK YOU 
MISS BOYLE

⭐️Congratulations to our new SMSJ Young Sports Ambassador's. ⭐️

The children thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon learning all about how to help our pupils complete their 60 active minutes a day and improve their fitness levels. They worked cooperatively with pupils from 15 other schools in the borough and learnt lots of new skills. They can’t wait to put all this new knowledge into practice and work alongside our Sports Leaders and Sports Council in school. 
⭐️Well done! You did SMSJ proud ⭐️

FOOTBALL TEAM

Well done to our fabulous football team. They played in their first match against Longshaw Juniors in the rain ☔️ and had a brilliant time. We were so proud of their skills, their defending, their goalkeeping and most importantly their sportsmanship! 
 

Well done boys ⚽️

WOW! 
The pupils are loving the morning clubs and are really challenging their bodies. 
Well done everyone 👌

🏸🏉🎾Sports Leaders 🏸🏉🎾

Congratulations to our Autumn 1 Sports Leaders who are making our lunchtimes active and so much fun for our pupils. We are so proud of how mature and well organised they are and how many fantastic activities they are coming up with. 

🏀⚽️SPORTS COUNCIL ⚽️🏀

Congratulations to our new 21/22 SMSJ Sports Council. 

These children are the voice of our pupils and we can’t wait to hear all their amazing ideas. 

Well done everyone ⭐️ 

PE THIS TERM @ SMSJ

We have been getting so excited this half term for THE EUROS 2020 and for the TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES.

AS ALWAYS WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON OUR FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SKILLS AND AGILITY, BALANCE & CO-ORDINATION SKILLS BUT  WITH KICKING AND FOOTBALL TACTICAL SKILLS AND PLAY BEING OUR MAIN FOCUS. ALL PUPILS HAVE HAD THEIR OWN BALL AVAILABLE  AND HAVE HAD AS MANY TOUCHES OF THE BALL AS POSSIBLE.  WE HAVE TRIED TO MASTER TOE TAPS, PENGUIN FEET, DRAG BACK TURNS AND MANY MORE. 

WE HAVE BEEN SINGING ENGLAND CHANTS AND PLAYING AS OUR FAVOURITE PLAYERS AND TEAMS AND ALSO AS OUR FAVOURITE AVENGERS :)  

THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN SHOWN YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF SKILLS AND WARM UPS AND HAVE BEEN GIVEN WEEKLY FOOTBALL MASTERY CHALLENGES TO COMPLETE AT HOME WITH THEIR FAMILIES AND HAVE ALSO BEEN ENCOURAGED TO WATCH THE GAMES.

SMSJ OLYMPICS 2021

INSTEAD OF OUR TRADITIONAL SPORTS DAY FORMAT WE HAVE DECIDED, IN HONOUR OF THE TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, WE WOULD HOLD OUR OWN.

EACH CLASS WILL PICK A COUNTRY AND RESEARCH THAT COUNTRIES MOST FAMOUS ATHLETE, BEST SPORT AND FIND OUT LOTS OF FACTS AND FIGURES THAT WILL ENRICH THEIR CROSS CURRICULAR KNOWLEDGE.

EACH CLASS WILL MAKE OLTMPIC TORCHES, MASCOTS AND OLYMPIC RINGS AND COMPETE AGAINST THE OTHER HOUSES IN THEIR CLASS.

WE ARE GOING TO COMPETE IN  EVENTS SUCH AS:

LONG JUMP

TRIPLE JUMP

THROWING

SPRINTING

LONG DISTANCE RUN

RELAY RACE

FOOTBALL

ROUNDERS

BOCCIA

BASKETBALL

POINTS COLLECTED FROM EACH HOUSE IN EACH CLASS WILL BE COLLATED AND AN OVER ALL HOUSE WILL WIN.

PICTURES AND RESULTS TO FOLLOW.

WE CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE OUR WHOLE SCHOOL CHALLENGEING THEMSELVES, COMPETING AND PUSHING THEMSELVES OUT OF THEIR COMFORT ZONE TO GAIN CONFIDENCE AND SUPPORT THEIR TEAM MATES.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE

SMSJ OLYMPICS 2021 RESULTS 🏃‍♀️

We have had a Brilliant 2 weeks of the SMSJ Olympics,  Every single child got to experience at least 3 events, games & challenges and we have seen such amazing talent from our children. 

We had competitions in:
Boccia, football, basketball, dodgeball, speed bounce, triple jump, long jump, sprints, relays, obstacle course & egg & spoon. 

Well done to everyone and a special thank you to our year 6 helpers who were so enthusiastic and encouraging to all the younger pupils 👍👌🏽

The results:

Joint 3rd Place -Amethyst and Emerald 

2nd Place - Diamond 

WINNERS  - RUBY HOUSE 🟥🏆

WOW!! 

WHAT A BRILLIANT 2 WEEKS OF ACTIVITIES WE HAVE HAD DURING OUR 'SMSJ OLYMPCS'

THE CHILDREN HAVE SHOWED AMAZING TEAM WORK AND COMPETITIVENESS AND HAVE HAD SO MUCH FUN.

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY ALL OUR PICTURES 

OUTDOOR LEARNING WEEK

WE HAD A JAM PACKED WEEK OF AMAZING ACTIVITIES FOR OUR CHILDREN HERE AT SMSJ. 

ALL CHILDREN GOT TO EXPERIENCE A CIRCUS ACT, A FARM WITH A HORSE, GOAT, CHICKENS RABBITS AND LOTS MORE.

EVERY CHILD DID ORIENTEERING, PARACHUTE WORK, HAD A FOREST SCHOOL SESSION AND SPENT THE WHOLE WEEK DOING ALL THEIR LEARNING OUTSIDE.  IT WAS INCREDIBLE TO SEE MANY HAPPY SMILY FACES IN THE SUNSHINE

ALL PUPILS COMPLETED A' MISSION POSSIBLE' DAY WITH LOTS OF TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITES, OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROBLEM SOLVING AND EVEN HAD TO ANSWER BRANCH DIAGRAM QUESTION TO COLLECT A CODE AND TRY AND OPEN THE PRIZE BOX.

WE SAW SOME BRILLIANT SKILLS FROM SO MANY PUPILS AND IT WAS SO LOVELY TO SEE EVERYONE SHOWING OFF THEIR TALENTS.

SUMMER HALF TERM 🎾🏏⚽️🏀

This term in PE we have been working hard on improving our underarm and overarm throwing and catching skills and concentrating on always being in the ready position when fielding.  We have discussed when each throw should be used and the best ways to catch balls of differing heights. 
 

We have looked at different ways of striking the ball and used a variety of equipment to do so. We looked at what position our bodies should be in to get the best hit possible and have tried hard to improve our sending and receiving skills.
 

KS1 have worked on mastering their fundamental movement skills and started to use their skills with lots of equipment and have even explored the use of tennis rackets and balls. They have been working super hard on their throwing and catching and have made massive improvements.  

They are using different equipment to practice sending a ball and have been encouraged to practice every day with balls or even socks at home and use their dominant hand as the bat. 

EMERGING SPORTS AND A LIFELONG LOVE OF SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ❤️🏓

We have lots of new equipment including table tennis tables, quidditch, four square, volleyball nets, strikeball nets and pickle ball bats.

The children are loving trying out all the new skills and last week and from KS1 have started to explore the different skills needed to progress through the stages of STRIKEBALL. This is our new exciting game that involves speed, acceleration, agility and coordination. 
 

ACTIVE MATHS INTERVENTION

Some of our Year 1 pupils have been taking part in maths intervention and what better way to do than ACTIVELY 🎾🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏏🏓⚽️
 

We have been working on addition, subtraction and number bonds and using all our PE equipment in a fun and exciting way.

We have had so much fun 🌟

ORIENTEERING 🗺 🧭 

This term our Year 5 children have been orienteering. They have learnt lots of new skills as well as working hard to get the blood pumping and push themselves physically. 
 

They have worked together as a team brilliantly and shown lots of competitiveness and drive to win when completing the course. 
 

Well done Year 5 👍🏻

During our lockdown 2021 Miss Boyle is providing weekly plans for every class to do at home.

Also lots of fun challenges for the whole family, focusing on our fundamental movement skills and our ABC's ( Agility, Balance & Co-ordination).

We hope you all have fun as a family completing them and don't forget to send lots of pictures and videos into dojo.

LOCKDOWN PE FUN IN SCHOOL

As some of our pupils are in school every day we decided that along with our curriculum lessons, we would learn some new skills.

Our amazing staff members brought in bikes, balance bikes, scooters and even a pogo stick for our pupils to use. We had so many children master a new skill and start to develop a life long love of cycling and being active outside.  

We learnt to skip individually and in groups and set challenges to our pupils at home. We loved watching their attempts at trying to beat our scores. We also encouraged children at home to get on their bikes and scooters and send their videos in to us.  We explored speed stacking skills and had lots of competitive challenges, even against Miss Boyle.

Despite the cold weather, it was brilliant to be outside being active for so much of the day.

Well done everyone  

Motor Skills

Some of our Reception, Year 1 and Year 3 have been working so hard to improve their motor skills.

They have been having weekly sessions to improve their shoulder strength, their fundamental skills and their understanding of games and rules.  We have had so much fun and the children have learnt so much.

We are really proud of them!

INTRA - HOUSE COMPETITION

We have completed our Dodgeball & Benchball Intra - House Competition and the results are in....

4th Place -  Emerald 

3rd Place - Diamond

2nd Place -Ruby

1st place WINNERS 

AMETHYST

ORIENTEERING

This term Year 5 & 6 have been orienteering. They have learnt all about compass points, teamwork, map reading and how to navigate their way around the school. 

They have really impressed us with their competitive spirit and their willingness to learn new skills.

WELL DONE!!

SMSJ

SPORTS NEWS

PE Extracurricular Activities

 

Monday 
8:15am – Dance & Sports club
3:10-4pm- Dance Troupe Practice

Wednesday 

8:15am - Dance & Sports Club

3:10-4pm- Year 3 & 4 Sports Club
Thursday 
8:15am – Dance & Sports Club

3:10-4pm – Tag Rugby Year 5 & 6
 

Get fit  
Make friends 
Have Fun

WOW!! We have exciting news!! 

Due to the success of our dance last year at OLSJ's  'Evening of Dance'  we have been asked to open and close the Lancashire School Games BwD Dance Competion at OLSJ on Wednesday 3th April. 

This is a huge honour as we will be representing all the Primary schools in Blackburn with Darwen.  Our pupils have been practicing since December and we are so excited to show off our talents, our costumes and our brilliant dance!! 

Good Luck everyone! 

We are so proud of you!!

Blackburn with Darwen 
Netball League 2

CHAMPIONS!!!!

Congratulations to our superstar netball team who played in the BwD netball league at Blackburn Rovers Indoor Centre .

They were superb throughout the year, and won every game and won the League! They all got a lovely shiny medal and were so excited to be crowned champions.
We are so proud of their efforts and can’t wait for the BwD tournament in May.
Well done to the team.

Fauzia

Shifaa

Zainadin

Asim

Ahmed

Lauren

Tayyibah
 

Blackburn with Darwen Gymnastics Competition

On Wednesday 13^th February, 3  of our Year  3 & 4 children went down to St Bede's High School to take part in the Gymnastics Key Steps competition.

The children performed exciting Vault jumps and a floor and body management routine. The children had worked very hard for weeks practicing their sequences and did brilliantly on the day.

We were very proud of them!!

Well Done. 

Dance, dance, dance.

We have been very fortunate again for the 4th Year running  to have professional dancer Dominique Boyle come in to our school to work with every class. The children absolutely love the sessions with her and its so nice to see everyone dancing and having fun.  Dominique also came into school in February to work with our Dance Troupe and give them lots of tips and advice ready for our show at OLSJ in March. 

Dominique studied at the Creative Academy in London for three years and has a dance degree.

Dominique reached the semi-finals of Got to Dance with her dance troupe ‘Academy of Base’.                            

Worked as backing dancer on Britains Got Talent.

Worked with Karlsruhe Weinhact Circus in Germany.

Danced at Iberostar Hotels Mallorca for 3 seasons.

Has worked in Bollywood in India for 6 months working with the most famous starts over there in films and music videos.

Danced in ‘Shaandar’ Bollywood Movie

Danced with the London Cheer leaders squad

Performed with the Angel dancers Bollywood Company

“I live to dance and want to travel the world doing what I love”. Dominique Boyle

Tag Rugby

On Tuesday 2nd April, 11 of our year 5 & 6 pupils will travel to Blackburn Rugby Club to take part in the BwD Tag Rugby Festival. 

Good Luck Everyone.

In November 18, 6 of our pupils travelled to St Bedes High School with Miss Boyle and Mrs Crossland to compete in the BOCCIA league.  All the children had a fantastic 2 days and made everyone here at SMSJ very proud. They played 10 games in total and won lots of them. Their behaviour was exceptional and they had lots and lots of fun. .

Well done everyone.

Family

Change For Life

Club

We loved having our parents & siblings into school to join our 'Family Change for life club'

We had so much fun working on our fitness & our skills & techniques and loved playing competitive games.

Well done to everyone!!