Caton Primary School loves sport and physical education.

We strongly believe that taking part in sport and physical activity is essential for a healthy lifestyle. Through sports and physical activity, our children learn to demonstrate excellent teamwork, empathy, ambition, drive, resilience, communication, control and humility. We use the Lancashire PE Passport as a basis for our PE and sports curriculum, ensuring that our lessons are high-quality and encourage skill and knowledge progression across all key stages.

We are proud to be part of the Lancaster and Heysham School Sports Network. We ensure that every pupil has the opportunity to participate in competitive sports during their time at Caton.  We believe that success comes in many forms and we encourage all our pupils to use the medium of sport to raise their ambitions and reach for the stars. Over the past two years, our pupils have participated in a range of curriculum-based, competition and extra-curricular activities. These include:

• judo
• fencing
• Bikeability
• mini first-aid
• hockey
• football
• netball
• tag rugby
• Ultimate Frisbee
• cricket
• rounders
• athletics
• wheelchair basketball (led by Shaun Gash MBE)
• dodgeball
• table tennis
• dance
• gymnastics
• and many more

We are fortunate to have excellent sports and outdoor facilities here at Caton, including a full-size sports hall (located in a separate school building), large sports field and a small forest area. To foster our children’s love of the sports, the outdoors and appreciation of our beautiful surroundings, we take as many of our lessons outside as possible. Key Stage 1 have weekly lessons in the forest that and Key Stage 2 regularly take their learning outside across the whole-school grounds. Furthermore, we take Key Stage 2 on a biannual hike in the countryside; our Year 3 and 4 children on an outdoor activity residential trip; and Year 5 receive Bikeability (cycling confidence and proficiency sessions) training each year.

End of Key Stage 2 Swimming Data

The data table below shows the current percentage of our Year 6 cohort that have met the End of Key Stage 2 national requirements for swimming.