PE

Implementation

The core PE curriculum is enhanced by opportunities for children to experience sports such as archery, trampolining and indoor skydiving, and to receive specialist coaching in sports such as tennis, football, rugby, hockey, cricket and athletics.

These enrichment opportunities dovetail with the school’s brilliant extracurricular club provision, where a comprehensive range of sports are on offer. We also provide opportunities for children to engage in a Trust, local and regional competitive events for both individual and team sports.

We aim to inspire every child to participate in physical activity, and for children to understand and appreciate the lifelong benefits of having a healthy and active lifestyle. PE lessons are taught twice weekly, with one indoor and one outdoor lesson, ensuring all children have access to at least two hours of physical activity every week.

Our youngest learners develop their core fundamental movement skills of agility, balance and coordination in fun team and partner based activities through clear, progressive lessons which promote the importance of keeping physically and mentally healthy, thus enhancing their physical development.

Through an ambitious PE curriculum, which is fully aligned with the national curriculum, lessons in KS1 and KS2 promote resilience, teamwork, the importance of reflection and embed the values of fairness and respect. The progressive structure enables children to build on fundamental movement skills, leading to opportunities for skill application within competitive game situations. During individual lessons, skill and knowledge progression creates opportunities for: a physical warm up; skill acquisition and discussion of the lesson focus; skill development and application through competition and a cool-down which allows time for reflection. Children have opportunities to apply and develop a broad range of skills, where each lesson builds on prior knowledge, to ensure children’s learning is consistently progressing.

Through a broad balance of invasion games, net and wall games, striking and fielding games, dance, gymnastics and athletics, children are taught not only sport specific skills and knowledge, but also transferable skills, which can be applied to a range of other sports, both recreationally and competitively outside of school.

Our PE curriculum caters for the needs and abilities of all our children, enabling every child to work at a level that is suitable to their own ability. Teachers support, stretch and challenge all children, to ensure every child achieves outstanding progress.

During all lessons, children have the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and compete with each other, as well as to gain an understanding of how to analyse and improve personal and peer performance in different physical activities and sports, whilst learning how to evaluate and recognise their own successes.