Blog by Category: PE and Sport

Last month we timed every child in Key Stage 2 when running the school mile. We then sent off the top 3 scores for boys and girls in years 3&4 and years 5&6 to the Manchester Schools Games Organisers.

They have now collected the scores from schools all over Manchester, with a total of 3647…

The Manchester P.E association have set all the children in Manchester a challenge to complete a mile in the fastest time possible.  We love a challenge so we incorporated the mile into our fitness P.E lessons.  Each child in KS2 has completed the mile this half term and recorded their own P.B…

This year we doing our competitions a little bit differently. The Manchester P.E association have spent their summer creating individual challenges for the children of Manchester to practice and record their best scores.  This half term we have focused on the football challenges. There were 4…

This half term the whole school has been focusing on their health and fitness during P.E.  One of the components of fitness we have been trying to improve is our leg strength. Here is a picture of our current champion, who can jump over ELEVEN cones from a standing position!  We are hoping there…

We have a new St. Francis record! Jasper completed the mile in 7 minutes and 19 seconds yesterday.  This is the fastest time ever recorded at St. Francis!
 

Watch out Mo Farah!!

Here is our 2020-2021 Sports Squad. You will be hearing from them all very soon, please keep an eye out for their blog posts.

This year has been our most successful year for swimming. 
Our Year 4 class have achieved some of the best results in our area for school curriculum swimming. 
Our boys swim team were strong and the Central and East Manchester swimming gala.
Our girls team are the first team ever to make it to…

During P.E this term we have focused on Basketball which has been very popular with the pupils. So much so that it was very difficult for us to chose only 30 children to represent the school in various basketball competitions. The children have been non stop practicing at break and lunch times…

Well done to our swimming squad who took part in the Central and East Manchester Swimming Gala.

The boys worked hard and really enjoyed the competition and experience.

The girls have made St. Francis history by winning the whole competition!! The girls team are now going to the…

We were very privileged to be invited to a high school Come and Try pole vault session at Sports City in January.  The children from St. Francis were chosen based on their skill and strength in both gymnastics and athletics and were taught by the Manchester Athletics Association.

They had a…

After four months of dedication and hard work, our St. Francis athletics team competed in the Manchester finals and came in first place! The children have worked consistently hard during P.E lessons since the beginning of the school year and have chosen to spend their break times practicing too.…

On Tuesday 17th December we took 8 rising stars to the Hathershaw athletics competition.  They worked very hard together and won the competition!

Here's what the pupils said about the event....

Nora - "The competition was amazing and the people who helped were really nice."

Fakhr - "I…