Our Curriculum Vision for PE
At Woodstone, we aim to instil a passion for PE and sports to ensure that every child has the opportunity to be the best they can be in PE lessons, sports competitions and festivals, active playtimes and across the whole curriculum. Through physical education and sport, we aim to teach our pupils new skills and values and show them how to improve in a safe, fun and stimulating environment. By providing a wide variety of sporting opportunities both in school and off-site, our pupils will become healthy and active young people ready for the next stage of their lives. We strive to give children the opportunity to compete internally (intra-school), and with other schools (inter-school) to instil values of teamwork, determination, respect, encouragement, passion and communication.
Physical Literacy
"Physical literacy is our relationship with movement and physical activity throughout life."
Physical literacy refers to the degree to which we have a positive and meaningful relationship with movement and physical activity. The quality of our relationship with movement and physical activity profoundly influences our choice to be active. Ultimately the idea is that the more positive your associations and relationship with being active is, the more likely you are to be active and the more physically literate you are. Positive sport and physical activity experiences impact your physical literacy. (NWLSSP, 2025)
60 Active Minutes
Children should be hitting 60 active minutes per day, with at least 30 active minutes within the school day. This may include how they travel to/from school, activities they participate in during break/lunch time, curriculum PE lessons, Forest School sessions, extra-curricular activities/events/competitions, movement/brain breaks or physical activity outside of school.
Inclusion
In order to ensure inclusive practices across our events and competitions, we try to enter a range of Inspire, Develop & Excel events.
Excel events are typically for our most elite athletes, while Develop events are designed to help develop skills and increase participation. Inspire events have the potential for different pupils to take part in sport & physical activity outside of the Excel and Develop events, whilst developing both sport-transferrable skills and life-skills.
You can find out more on the NWLSSP website by clicking here.
Miss Issey Armston
PE & Sport Lead
I'm passionate about PE and sport both in and out of school. I love going to the gym and a wide variety of sports matches in my spare time. I strive to inject this passion into my PE role at Woodstone, both within the PE curriculum and extra-curricular sporting activities.
News:
- The Year 5/6 Girls' Football Team are through to the semi-final of the Tony Moore Shield!
- KS2 Girls' football club is back! Monday lunch-times on the field - all KS2 girls welcome!
- Year 3/4 Tag Rugby Club with Mr Kendrick has begun! Thursdays from 8am in Spring 2
- Active Travel Month runs throughout March. Increase your physical activity by walking, scooting or biking to and from school during the month of March!
Sporting events 25/26:
Past:
- Primary Ambassador Training - 18th September 2025
- Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Competition - 2nd October 2025
- Year 5/6 Girls' Football Tournament - 7th October 2025
- Year 2 Multi-Sport Festival - 8th October 2025
- Year 5 Play Coach Training - 13th October 2025
- Year 1 Multi-Skills Festival - 15th October 2025
- Inclusive Multi-Sport Festival (Inspire) - 28th October 2025
- KS2 Boys' Football Club with Mr Kendrick & Mr Mullins - Fridays after school in Autumn Term 1 & 2
- KS2 Girls' Football Club with Miss Armston and Miss Knight - Monday Lunch-times in Autumn Term 1 & 2 - will resume in Spring 2
- Year 5/6 Boys' Football Match (Kirby Shield) v Whitwick - 3rd November 2025
- Year 5/6 Girls' Football Matches (Tony Moore) v Belvoirdale & Broom Leys - 4th November 2025
- Year 5/6 Boys' Football Match (Kirby Shield) v Broom Leys - 20th November 2025
- Year 5/6 Boys' Football Matches (Kirby Shield) v Ashby CE & St Charles - 24th November 2025
- Year 5/6 Dodgeball Tournament - 25th November 2025
- Sports Awards - 27th November 2025
- Year 5/6 Dodgeball Tournament Area FINAL - 4th December 2025
- Boccia (Inspire) - 13th January 2026
- Whole-school Cross Country @ Woodstone - 17th January 2026
- Year 5/6 Excel Basketball - 19th January 2026
- Year 5/6 Girls' Football Quarter-Final (Tony Moore) v Willesley - 20th January 2026
- Year 5/6 Girls' Develop Basketball - 27th January 2026
- Year 5 Handball (Develop) - 6th February 2026
- Level 3 Gymnastics Competition - 11th February 2026
- Year 2 Scootability - 25th February 2026
- Year 5/6 Swimming Gala - 3rd March 2026
- Year 5/6 Unity Football Tournament - 4th March 2026
Upcoming:
- Year 3/4 Tag Rugby Club - Thursday 26th February 2026 and then weekly for 5 weeks
- KS2 Girls' Football Club - Monday lunch-times with Miss Armston and Miss Knight
- Year 3/4 Quicksticks - 10th March 2026
- Year 5/6 Quicksticks - 17th March 2026
- Year 6 Orienteering - 24th March 2026
- Year 4/5 Boys' Football Matches v Ellistown & Hill Top @ Hill Top - 3:30pm kick-off - 15th April 2026
- Year 3/4 Girls' Football Matches v Willesley, All Saints & Thringstone @ All Saints - 3:30pm kick-off - 16th April 2026
- Year 4/5 Boys' Football Match v Ibstock Junior School @ IJS - 3:30pm kick-off - 22nd April 2026
- Year 3/4 INSPIRE Tag Rugby - 23rd April 2026
- Year 5/6 Girls' Dynamo Cricket - 18th May 2026
- Year 5/6 Mixed Dynamo Cricket - 19th May 2026
- Year 5/6 Netball - 3rd June 2026
- Y6 Experience Day at Nottingham University - 8th June 2026
- Year 3/4 Friendly Tag Rugby Event - 10th June 2026
- Saffron Lane - 17th June 2026
- Sports Day - 23rd June 2026 (Weather Permitting!)
