In Carbury National School, all pupils are provided with 60 minutes of timetabled PE per week. Tuesdays and Fridays are the PE days in our school this year. Children wear their PE tracksuit and runners for PE days. While these are our timetabled PE days, the classes often enjoy physical breaks at different stages throughout the week.

In Carbury, we take part in all six strands of the Primary Physical Education Curriculum:

1. Gymnastics
2. Outdoor and Adventure
3. Games
4. Athletics
5. Aquatics
6. Dance

In our school, all PE activities are carefully planned and differentiated so that they are accessible to all pupils. The PSSI lesson plans and the ‘Move Well, Move Often’ resources are used by teachers to guide their delivery of the Primary PE Curriculum. Pupil's progress and achievements in PE is discussed with parents at PT meetings and this subject is also included in our annual school report.

Sporting Facilities at Carbury NS

We count ourselves very lucky in Carbury NS with the sporting facilities we have on our school grounds and also within walking distance of the school. We have an indoor hall with a store room for sports equipment. We have two outdoor basketball courts on our school grounds. In addition, we have two other play areas for the junior classes. We had two goals added to one of the yards for football. We are very fortunate to be a 5-minute walk from a state-of-the-art athletics track and playing fields in O’Boyle park. This facility has a 200m tartan track, three soccer pitches and two basketball courts. Students have used these grounds throughout the year for their games and athletics PE lessons.

PE Equipment and Store Room

We're very lucky in our school to have an array of PE equipment available to us. The equipment and resources are labelled, well organised and easily accessible for teachers. We carry out an audit of all our PE equipment at the end of each school year to see if any items need to be replaced. 

Fundamental Movement Skills

Fundamental movement skills are the basic building blocks of movement and are an essential part of everyday life and recreational activity. It is only when these skills are mastered that a child can go on to develop specialised movement skills, which will allow them to reach their potential in sports-specific endeavours. This year we are working on the following skills in Carbury NS: Running, Skipping, Kicking and Walking.

PAWS

Each class focused on the aquatics strand for the month of June. All students completed The Land PAWS (Primary Aquatics Water Safety) water safety programme. This was in collaboration with our Green Schools Committee who have chosen ‘Water Safety’ as their theme for the year. All students received a PAWS certificate as a reward for completing the programme. We held a poster competition where all the students designed a 'Water Safety' poster to raise awareness of staying safe at beaches, pools, farms and rivers.

Check out our ‘Physical Education’ blog on our website to keep up to date with all our activities.