St Helen's CE Primary School

Implementation of P.E:

Physical education at St Helen’s seeks to provide a balance of individual and team co-operative and competitive activities to cater for each pupil’s abilities and preferences.  PE lessons are taught by Miss Clarke, outside sports coaches, or class teachers. The school aims to develop children’s enjoyment, confidence and skill in physical activity and to introduce them to the pleasure of sport. Pupils will be taught a full range of physical skills throughout each year.

Competitive Sport:

Over the course of the year, we try and enter a range of competitions and events. We try and include everyone who wishes to take part.  Our sports' teams are open to all and are not selected by ability - the only exception to this is District Sports. This goes in hand with our values of inclusivness and our school's vision. 

The school is a member of the Harpenden & District Schools Sports Association and the St Alban's Sport Asscoiation, and competes in a variety of school fixtures throughout the year.  In 2022 , we came 3rd overall in the small schools competition and the previous year we were the overall champions, making us the proud winners of the coveted Bonner Cup.

During the past year (2022/23) we have hosted and competed in a range of compeitions including: football, netball, cricket, rounders, chess, table tennis, tag rugby, mutli sports, indoor athletics, world sports  and district sports. At school, the following clubs have been available (2022/23): table tennis, rounders, multi sports, athletics, forest school, football, tennis, netball, chess and fencing. Throughout the year, we try to invite visitors in so children have access to a wide range of opportunities. Most recently this has included an ex-olympian gymnast coming in or having circus skills workshiops take place at school. 

Sport uptake:

We are proud of being an inclusive school. As part of being an inclusive school, we try and ensure everyone has a chance to represent the school in a sporting fixture. Last year, 78% of KS2 children (years 3- 4) represented the school at a sporting fixture. Below is a photo of all our KS2 children, who represented the school in sport last year.

St Helen’s sports team’s policy: We are an inclusive school and will try our best to ensure that every child who wishes to participate in a sports fixtures gets a chance over the course of the academic year. This means we will not select by ability. The only exemption to this is district sports competitions. Unfortunately, this does mean that your child might not get to take part in every sports fixture. To ensure that we are fair we will be: 

Initially choosing randomly, if there are more children than spaces; 

If your child isn’t chosen for an event, they will have priority over children, who have been previously chosen for the next event they sign up to. This does not guarantee their place, particularly in year 5 and 6 where we might have 60 children sign up for 6 places.  

This will ensure that we can offer sport to as many pupils as possible. Unless stated a member of staff will be present at all sporting fixtures.  

Children can sign up on sheets by Mr Denton’s office.  

Please take a look at our sports teams below: