How much PE do your children do a week?

[ritblat]

My children's school is great at extracurricular sports, with lots of teams and clubs etc, but not great on provision within the curriculum. My daughter (Year 4) did no PE at all last half term, and is only doing half an hour of swimming a week this half term. My other daughter (Year 2) does about an hour, I think. Surely they should be doing more than this? My elder daughter is not at all sporty, and not particularly coordinated so would never put herself forward for afterschool clubs and teams, but this seems to me to be even more reason to include it in the curriculum.

I would be really interested to know how much other schools do (just state schools please, I'm well aware that private schools do loads!)

State school, y2. PE is half an hour twice a week. Sports club 45mins once a week.

Additionally he has football three times a week (training, match, coaching, 3+ hours in total) and every playtime and lunchtime which is another hour a day or so. Swimming lessons ad hoc on top (1-to-1).

I certainly do not rely on school for his sport!

I think it is absolutely unacceptable for DD1 to have done no PE at all in a half term.

State school. PE is twice a week in Y2, but I don't know how long they do it for. They rotate dance 3 half terms each and then the rest is teacher taught. Tends to be indoors at this time of year and then goes outside when warmer. They used to have a football guy come in and teach, but he left, sadly. I think it's good to have specialists in.

Ds1 is Y4 and has swimming lessons with school plus a PE slot with a teacher (not a specialist, just class teacher).

Ds1 is not sporty, but his Dad is, and has really encouraged him so they play football a lot at the weekend. I'm glad they are not relying on me, because I am not sporty at all.

Infant school - no idea. I think it changed from week to week. Only in the second half of Summer term they had a weekly tennis coach coming in. I know they did PE but I had no idea what and how much.
NO after school or lunch clubs apart from two by external providers.

Now Y3 in Junior school:
2x PE per week, fix slots.
Several lunch clubs, cross country, football (boy and girl separately), dance
Before school hockey and basketball clubs
After school football, rugby and basketball clubs plus dance club by an external provider.

Hockey is done by an external coach

The Junior school is big in sports, got an Outstanding for it at the last OFSTED report and participates successfully in various borough wide and regional wide competitions. They also put individuals forward to competitions if they do sports not covered by the school like diving, tennis, gymnastics.

I think Y4 goes swimming.

Thanks. I think that my DD1's PE provision is woefully inadequate. I've only just realised that she didn't do any last term and I'll bring it up with her teacher. It's a bit odd because the teacher is actually quite sporty, and runs the football club, so I would have thought he would be encouraging them all to be active rather than shirking his responsibilities.

State primary. Twice per week, one indoor and one outdoor. I think timetabled 1 hour but that will include changing.
Plus all the running around they do at break and lunch.

(Secondary DD1 y11, 1 hour per week, mainly spent chatting to friends or picking shuttlecocks up off the floor )

ritblat, he probably enjoys teaching the keen & talented (who wouldn't), but not the others

Yes, think you're right. Sadly my DS is neither keen nor talented when it comes to sport!

If they have to travel to the pool it probably uses a weeks worth of pe "time" from the timetable. If you add up all the time for all the subjects in primary it comes to rather more than the time spent in school!

State primary, twice a week for an hour each time including changing (so probably more like 45 minutes max), one indoor and one outdoor, plus an hour of dance/drama which I think is pretty physical. DD is in Y3. DD is also neither keen nor talented and particularly hates the outdoor sport but she seems to like the indoor one (basic gymnastics, dance, etc) and she loves the dance/drama which is the highlight of her week. It is all based around whatever topics they are currently doing and it sounds really brilliant from what I hear. There are also quite a lot of sport-based (free) clubs - netball, cross-country, football etc. And dance clubs for KS1.

Tanaqui - I think that is part of the problem. They go on a coach to the pool and it seems to take around an hour and half door-to-door (to swim about five lengths probably). Maybe they could chant times tables on the journey and put that down as maths time.

Mine do an hour twice a week most of the year. From May half term-summer holidays they swim every day in the school pool.

DD is Year 3 in a state school (tiny village school - around 70 children in the whole school). They do 2 x 1 hour sessions per week - one indoors and one outdoors. For 1 term per year, each class is coached in football by an ex international footballer and ex Scottish Premier League coach. Years 4, 5 and 6 are also having rugby coaching lessons from Newcastle Falcons this term, too!

There is also lunch time football daily, which is co-ordinated and supervised by one of the teachers.

Obviously, I am more than happy with the PE provision in DD's school.

Year 4, inner city London - half an hour once a week. At the moment they also do swimming.

Dd is really sporty and I would love her to do more. She does stuff outside of school but I know many children don't.