Our aim is to create an embedded culture, where high quality teaching and learning of PE and Sport inspires every child to participate in physical activity and develop an appreciation of the lifelong benefits of having a healthy and active lifestyle.
PE lessons are taught twice weekly, one indoor and one outdoor, which ensures that all children have access to at least two hours of physical activity per week.
Our Early Years and Foundation Stage curriculum and the school’s wider work, encourages our youngest learners to develop their core fundamental movement skills of agility, balance and coordination in fun team and partner-based activities. These clear, progressive lessons promote the importance of keeping physically and mentally healthy, thus enhancing the children’s physical development.
Through an ambitious PE curriculum, which is fully aligned with the National Curriculum, lessons in Key Stages 1 and 2 promote resilience, teamwork, the importance of reflection and embed the values of fairness and respect.
The clear, progressive structure enables children to build upon fundamental movement skills leading to providing opportunities for skill application within competitive game situations.
During individual lessons, skill and knowledge progression allows 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 are given opportunities to apply and develop a broad range of skills where each lesson builds upon prior knowledge to ensure that the children’s learning is consistently progressing.
Through a broad balance of invasion games, net and wall games and striking and fielding games, dance, gymnastics and athletics, children are taught not only sport specific skills and knowledge but also the transferable skills which can then 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 suitable to their own ability. Teachers support, stretch and challenge all children to ensure every child achieves outstanding progress.
During all lessons, children get the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and compete as well as 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.
