PE

4th October 2022M Hanratty

At Marsden Primary School, we aim to deliver an exciting and inspiring Physical Education curriculum which provides children with the skills, tools and understanding required to make a long-lasting impact on their physical health and well-being. We believe that all children should have the opportunity to experience and compete in a wide variety of sports in order to build character, resilience and stamina; whilst teaching children to cope with successes and failures too. The skills that children learn in PE promote self-esteem, fairness and respect. They also develop leadership qualities by teaching pupils that they can perform with increasing confidence and competence in a range of individual, team and competitive sports.

To find out more about our PE curriculum, please click on the documents below:

Lower Key Stage Two PE

4th December 2023Chloe Reed

As part of our invasion games topic this half term, Years 3 and 4 have developed their teamwork and communication skills. Both classes have worked hard to develop their throwing and catching, attacking and defending skills in a range of team games and have also looked at different ways to move with a ball.

Funky Fingers EYFS – Week 1

8th November 2023M Hanratty

Funky Fingers Club had a fantastic time for their first meeting. In these sessions, we are developing our fine motor and gross motor skills through a variety of activities.

This week, we warmed up with a little dough disco before focusing on our balancing skills outside. We finished the session with a flipper flapper workout!

Stay tuned to see what we get up to next week!

Throwing and Catching in Nursery

27th September 2023M Hanratty

Nursery had a fantastic PE session today practising our throwing and catching skills using balloons. We tried to keep them in the air for as long as possible. We then applied these skills to using beanbags.

Staff were so proud of how independent the children were when getting ready for PE. Another skill we have encouraged the children to practise at home as well.

Fit for the Finish

11th September 2023Fiona Wilson

Years 5 and 6 headed to the coast this week to take part in the Great North Run Fit for the Finish event. The children participated in a 1.4km run and were rewarded with a special appearance from none other than Sir Mo Farah! Despite it being his last professional race, Sir Mo took the time to warm up with the children, share some running tips and then take some questions from the children once they were all done. We had a fabulous morning. Well done everyone!

Y4 – Outdoor Adventurous Activities afternoon

10th July 2023Fiona Wilson

What an exciting afternoon Y4 had! We enjoyed our first taste of orienteering in South Marine Park. We put our map reading skills to the test as we followed the course looking for the markers. On route, we were challenged to complete some problem solving activities which involved lots of team work. We managed to avoid the rain and had a fantastic time. It was a big hit!