Physical Education and Sports at Mitton Manor

Welcome to the PE section of our website. Here you will find out about all of the sporting activity and achievements that are related to our school.

Mitton Manor Primary School believes that physical education, experienced in a safe and supportive environment, is vital and unique in its contribution to a pupil’s physical and emotional development and health. The physical education curriculum aims to provide for pupils’ increasing self- confidence through an ability to manage themselves successfully in a variety of situations. A balance of individual, team, co-operative and competitive activities aims to cater for individual pupil’s needs and abilities. Physical education promotes an understanding in children of their bodies in action. It involves thinking, creating, selecting and applying skills and promotes positive attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle and personal development. Thus we enable children to make informed and positive choices about physical activity throughout their lives. We aim to make our children as active as possible both inside and outside of school in order to help them look after both their physical and mental health.

We place a high value the emotional well being and the health of our children. If children are happy, healthy and resilient; they will learn - and this needs to be at the very heart of what we do as a school. We have a range of strategies, systems and interventions to cater for the needs of the children in our care.

We are committed to promoting physical activity and its lifelong benefits, we also know that it has a positive impact on academic performance. This is important for all our pupils irrespective of their abilities, gender or background. 

We are active members of the Move More Network who support us with curricular and extra-curricular PE. We compete against other partnership schools in a variety of events and competitions.

Mitton Manor's PE highlights.

We teach specific sports in our PE lessons so that children can use the fundamental skills that they have learned in game situations, using The PE Hub to support us.

Staff use The PE Hub which is a complete PE resource packed with lesson plans, videos, music, printable resources, and assessment tools that staff use to meet Ofsted requirements and make PE more fun and rewarding for pupils. The PE Hub supports us to deliver high-quality lessons by harnessing pupils’ natural enthusiasm for PE.  We provide challenge and have high expectations with clear success criteria that help keep pupils on track. The PE Hub has a huge range of progressive content for our teachers to use to design their curriculum.  Building on a foundation of physical literacy in Reception, at KS1 children learn fundamental movements skills that prepares them for modified games at KS2.  In addition to games activities, each year group has access to outdoor and adventurous activities and two units of gymnastics and dance; ensuring children’s learning is broad and balanced.

Please see our PE curriculum overview (at the bottom of the page) to see what each year group covers. 

Alongside these weekly PE sessions, children in Years 3, 4 and 5 attend swimming lessons annually at Tewkesbury Academy, where they are taught by trained swimming instructors.

Move More

We are a member of Move More to help support us in our teaching of PE. Formerly Cheltenham & North Tewkesbury School Sport Network (SSN), Move More have over 10 years’ experience supporting schools develop high quality teaching and learning in PE and school sport.

They became a charity in 2018 in order to broaden our reach and help more children lead active lifestyles. As Move More, they remain within the School Games structure, delivering high quality competitive sporting and leadership opportunities for young people.

Through Move More, we have access to sporting competition against other primary schools in our area such as football, athletics, netball and cross country with other primary schools from the local area. . 

Last year, we held extra-curricular clubs such as football, athletics, rounders, KS1 relay club and tag rugby. Each year, we hold a Sports Day, where parents come along and celebrate their children's sporting talents.

Gloucestershire Healthy Schools Award

The healthy schools rating scheme has been designed to recognise and encourage schools’ contributions to pupils’ health and wellbeing. It celebrates the positive actions that schools are delivering in terms of healthy eating and physical activity, and aims to help schools identify useful next steps in their provision. This is a voluntary scheme where schools complete a self-assessment and then receive a rating based on their responses around healthy eating and physical activity. This is something that we are very passionate about at Mitton and we try to to encourage our children to stay healthy and active through many different extra activities, such as the Daily Mile, Rainbow Lunches, Fit4ten sessions run by our Sports Council, health focus weeks and investing in extra equipment for our playgrounds. We are happy to announce that due to our achievements, we have achieved the Healthy Schools award again up to 2026. Well done to all of our families, children and staff who helped us show off how much health matters to us at Mitton Manor.

TEAM Mitton's Sporting Stars

Important PE Curriculum Documents