St Helen's CE Primary School

Our vision for P.E:

• We want our children to have a love of sport and know how to live a healthy lifestyle.
• We want to foster a positive attitude to sport for all children.
• All children to have a chance to compete and take part in a sporting events for the school.
• Children to experience a wide range of sport and develop a range of skills.

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 outside sports coaches, or class teachers. The school aims to develop children’s enjoyment, confidence and skills 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. We offer a range of competive and inspire events. Over the course of the year, we try to ensure that every child in KS2 gets an opportunity to represent the school. We generally enter/host around 38 sporting events a year. This includes running our own athletics, cross country and tag rugby compeitions. 

The school is a member of the Harpenden & District Schools Sports Association and the St Albans Sport Association, and competes in a variety of school fixtures throughout the year. 

During previous years 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.

Clubs:

At school, the following clubs have been previously available: table tennis, rounders, multi sports, athletics, forest school, football, tennis, netball, chess and fencing. Throughout the year, we try to invite a variety of visitors. Previously, this has included an ex-olympian gymnast coming in or having circus skills workshops take place at school.

The school tries to ensure that we run a number of free sporting clubs over the course of the year.

During the 2025 - 2026 year we are sponsoring: 

Cricket years: 3,4,5 (Spring 2)

Rugby: year 2 - 6 (Autumn term)

Football club: Year 4,5,6 (Autumn and Spring term)

Street Dance: Reception to year 3 (Spring term)

Chess: (Spring term)

Multi sports: Reception to year 2 (Summer 1)

Forest school: all year (during school hours)

Sport uptake:

We are proud of being an inclusive school and we try and ensure everyone has a chance to represent the school in a sporting fixture.

In 2024/25 88% of KS2 children represented the school and 86% of the school took part in at least one sporting club, 

In 2023/24 85% of KS2 children represented the school in a sporting fixture and 88% of KS1 and KS2 took part in at least one sporting club.

In 2022/23, 78% of KS2 children (years 3- 4) represented the school in a sporting fixture. 

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  for some fixtures we will not select by ability.  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:

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

If your child isn’t chosen for an event, they will have priority for the next event. However, please bare in mind some events only have space for 6 children.  

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 or will be selected by Mr Denton for more competitive events. 

Please take a look at our sports teams below: