PE & Sport

Our pupils receive one hour of curriculum PE per week throughout both EYFS and Key Stage 1 & 2. This is taught by Mr Williams, a qualified teacher and primary PE specialist.

We endeavour to provide all children with positive, inclusive and meaningful early experiences around physical activity that will help them to be physically confident and lead active, healthy lifestyles in and out of school.

Lessons are designed to encourage high levels of engagement and enjoyment for all children with a focus on the use of modified games and themes of learning instead of traditional blocks of sport specific activities.

Children take part in competitive sport in after school clubs and during regular participation in a range of fixtures, festivals and tournaments provided by the Thanet Primary Association for School Sport.

All lessons are supported by the STEP principle approach to providing appropriate levels of challenge for the children. See below image for more detail on this approach

We use specially designed units of work called ‘learning themes’ that are linked to the PE National Curriculum. These are provided by our scheme of work partners ‘BEYOND THE PHYSICAL’.

Each Learning Theme is centred around three key words, which are the success criteria for the unit. For example: 'LOOK, RUN, AVOID'

Children will cover these learning themes with a focus on one key word for a minimum of two lessons and videos are shared with the children before each lesson to show what we are going to do.

TERM 5 - LEARNING THEMES

KS1 - 'Run, Jump, Throw' and 'Target, Cointrol, Combine'

LKS2 - 'Invade, Evade, Capture' and 'Accuracy, Power, Distance'

Swimming for Kingfisher Class only.

UKS2 - 'Aim, Strike, Retrieve'

TERM 4 - LEARNING THEMES

KS1 - 'Strike, React, Rally' and 'Fair, Share, Dare'

LKS2 - 'React, Roll, Retrieve' and 'Hands, Feet, Equipment'

UKS2 - 'Block, Guard, Support' and Swimming

'LET GIRLS PLAY' FOOTBALL EVENT

On Friday 8th March, fourteen girls from Year 5 and 6 took part in the annual 'Let Girls Play' football event at Ramsgate FC alongside nearly 200 girls from schools across Thanet. The teams took part in a range of skill challenges and matches and the sun even made a rare appearance in the sky!

KS2 DANCE COMPETITION

On Tuesday 5th March, Miss Taylor's street dancers travelled to Chatham to compete in a dance competition against schools from all over Kent. Their routine scored over 200 points and they represented the school fantastically well. Congratulations to all the children involved and thank you to all the staff that accompanied them. Ready for the next one!

INDOOR BOWLS EVENT - CHAMPIONS!

On Wednesday 28th February, two teams of children from HTSJ competed in the first ever Thanet Primary School Indoor Bowls event. Both teams won all of their group games in the first round to reach the final group of four teams and HTSJ Team 1 ended up finishing in 1st place overall.