FIFTH Movement is the PE provider primary schools Greater Manchester headteachers recommend — with 97% PE attainment and 89.1% SEND outcomes to prove it. Here is the evidence.
One school. Two years. 97% of children hitting their PE targets — including 89.1% of SEND pupils. This is what great PE provision actually looks like.
Every September, headteachers across Greater Manchester face the same uncomfortable calculation. PE is on the timetable. The curriculum expects it. Ofsted inspects for it. But delivering it consistently — week after week, class after class, regardless of staff absences, workload pressure and budget constraints — is one of the hardest operational challenges a primary school faces.
For St. Kentigern’s RC Primary School, that challenge reached a tipping point when staff absence started creating gaps in core PPA time. As an active school that takes physical education seriously, missing PE wasn’t an option. They needed a consistent, professional solution — immediately.
Two years later, they’re still with FIFTH Movement. And the results are the kind that redefine what’s possible in primary PE across Greater Manchester.
Why Schools Need a PE Provider — Primary Schools, Greater Manchester
The Problem Every PE Provider Primary Schools Greater Manchester Face
Staff absence. Supply costs. PPA chaos. Planning time haemorrhaging week after week.
These are not fringe problems. Across primary schools in Manchester, Tameside, Stockport, Salford, Trafford, Oldham, Bolton, Wigan, Rochdale and Bury, the structural pressure on PE delivery is enormous — and the consequences fall squarely on children.
When PE isn’t delivered consistently by a specialist PE provider:
- Children miss the physical activity they need for health, focus and wellbeing
- Curriculum gaps accumulate across key stages without anyone tracking them
- SEND pupils — who often benefit most from structured physical activity — lose vital targeted support
- Teacher workload increases as class teachers cover sessions or pick up planning
- Supply costs mount with every absent specialist — sometimes running to hundreds of pounds per week
The traditional fix — hiring supply staff or patching sessions with available teachers — is expensive, inconsistent, and unsustainable. St. Kentigern’s tried a smarter approach instead: they called a local school and asked who they trusted for PE. The answer was FIFTH Movement. They trialled one term. Two years later, the partnership is stronger than ever.
What FIFTH Movement Actually Delivers as Your PE Provider
FIFTH Movement isn’t a supply agency. As the dedicated PE provider primary schools Greater Manchester headteachers turn to, FIFTH embeds into your school rather than parachuting in. It’s a specialist PE provider that embeds into your school — learning your pupils, your curriculum priorities, your staff, and your community — and delivers the kind of consistent, expert PE that a class teacher with a full timetable simply cannot.
At St. Kentigern’s RC Primary School, FIFTH Movement delivers a comprehensive package that covers every dimension of physical education:
- 30 hours of PE per week — full curriculum delivery across all key stages, every week
- 5 after-school clubs (ASC) per week — extending physical activity beyond the school day
- Daily lunchtime clubs — keeping children active and engaged at every opportunity
- Lesson plans and termly reports — complete curriculum documentation, fully handled
- Organised competitions — inter-school and intra-school sport built into the calendar
- Cover for sickness — no gaps, no supply calls, no disruption, ever
The full planning, preparation and assessment burden is managed through FIFTH Movement’s iPEP platform, saving teachers hours every term. Supply costs — eliminated. Planning time — recovered. Teacher PPA — secure and protected. Pupil activity — dramatically up.
That’s not a marketing claim. That’s the measurable return on investment at a school that has lived it for two years.
The Results That Set FIFTH Movement Apart from Every Other PE Provider in Greater Manchester
When St. Kentigern’s Headteacher Madeline Muldoon describes the FIFTH Movement partnership, she doesn’t reach for vague positives. She reaches for specifics:
“FIFTH Movement have worked alongside school, supporting the planning and delivery of PE across all key stages. Collaborative working with school leaders has resulted in a well-planned curriculum delivered by highly competent FIFTH Movement coaches. The level of professionalism demonstrated by the FIFTH Movement team is exemplary.”
Those words are backed by data that no other PE provider in Greater Manchester is publishing:
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Children achieving Expected or above in PE | 97% |
| SEND pupils achieving Expected or above in PE | 89.1% |
| WTS pupils receiving targeted 1-2-1 / small-group intervention | 100% |
| Teacher PPA time | Secured and consistent |
| Supply costs | Eliminated |
| Teaching Assistant CPD | Delivered alongside FIFTH coaches |
| Pupil behaviour | Improved |
97% attainment in PE — delivered by the PE provider primary schools Greater Manchester consistently chooses — across a full school, including pupils from every background and starting point — this is a number no other PE provider in Greater Manchester is publishing. Because no other provider is measuring at this level, or confident enough in their outcomes to put them in writing.
FIFTH Movement is.
Why SEND Outcomes Set FIFTH Movement Apart as a PE Provider in Greater Manchester
The 89.1% SEND attainment figure deserves its own focus — because it is genuinely exceptional, and it matters for schools right across Greater Manchester.
Out of 57 SEND pupils at St. Kentigern’s, only 7 are currently working towards expected standards in PE during 2025/26. Every single child identified as working towards expected standards receives targeted 1-2-1 and small-group interventions, focused specifically on the areas where they need to progress. This is the SEND benchmark every PE provider primary schools Greater Manchester schools employ should be meeting.
This is not an add-on or an upsell. It is built into how FIFTH Movement works — because genuine inclusion in PE doesn’t happen by accident. It happens through planning, consistent specialist coaching, and a commitment to every child in every class.
Across Greater Manchester, schools with high SEND populations — particularly in Tameside, Oldham, Salford and parts of central Manchester where inclusion is a strategic priority — are looking for PE providers who don’t just deliver lessons for the majority. They need specialists who can adapt, differentiate, and intervene where it matters. That is what FIFTH Movement delivers as standard.
Award-Winning. Greater Manchester-Based. School-to-School Recommended.
St. Kentigern’s didn’t find FIFTH Movement through a Google search or a cold email. They called a local school to ask who they trusted — and that school recommended FIFTH Movement without hesitation.
That kind of word-of-mouth recommendation is built over years of consistent delivery. It can’t be manufactured. It can’t be claimed. It can only be earned — session by session, term by term, for every child, in every school across Greater Manchester.
In 2024, Greater Manchester recognised that commitment publicly. FIFTH Movement won the This Is MCR Award for Organisation Promoting Health & Well-Being — a city-wide recognition of the impact FIFTH is making on children’s lives through movement.
As a PE provider, FIFTH Movement operates across the whole of Greater Manchester, delivering specialist PE provision to primary schools in:
- Manchester (City Centre, North, South, East)
- Tameside (Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Stalybridge, Dukinfield)
- Stockport (Bredbury, Edgeley, Hazel Grove, Marple)
- Salford (Eccles, Swinton, Worsley)
- Trafford (Stretford, Sale, Altrincham, Urmston)
- Oldham (Failsworth, Lees, Royton)
- Bolton (Farnworth, Horwich, Westhoughton)
- Wigan, Rochdale and Bury
If your school is in Greater Manchester, FIFTH Movement can serve it — and can show you exactly what results to expect before you sign anything.
Is Your School Getting What St. Kentigern’s Is Getting?
The question for every headteacher in Greater Manchester is a straightforward one: what are your PE outcomes, and who is accountable for them? Every PE provider primary schools Greater Manchester appoints should be able to answer with data.
If the honest answer is that PE delivery is inconsistent — that supply cover is a regular fix, that SEND pupils are not getting targeted support, that teachers are spending planning time on PE sessions when they should be recovering PPA — then the current model isn’t working hard enough for your school or your children.
FIFTH Movement has demonstrated, at a real school in Greater Manchester over a genuine two-year partnership, that a different model is possible. One that eliminates supply costs, secures teacher PPA time, delivers 97% curriculum attainment, achieves 89.1% SEND outcomes, and still runs daily lunchtime clubs and five after-school sessions every single week.
The standard is set. The data is public. The question is whether your school is ready to reach it.
Ready to Bring FIFTH Movement to Your School?
FIFTH Movement works with primary schools across Greater Manchester on a partnership basis — embedding specialist PE coaches into your school for consistent, accountable, measurable results.
Capacity is managed carefully to protect the consistency that produces results like these, so schools that enquire early secure their preferred start date and coaching team.
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Serving primary schools across Greater Manchester — Manchester, Tameside, Stockport, Salford, Trafford, Oldham, Bolton, Wigan, Rochdale and Bury.
Case study data from St. Kentigern’s RC Primary School — 2025/26 academic year. PE provision delivered by FIFTH Movement’s specialist coaching team across all key stages.
For more information on the national curriculum requirements for PE, visit the Department for Education PE programmes of study.
