Physical Education is a vital part of our curriculum. It provides all pupils the opportunity to engage in inclusive and active structured lessons, which focus on sporting skills and a development of progression through the schemes of work. Pupils are exposed to a culture, which aims to inspire an active generation to enjoy PE, encourage their peers and strive to achieve their ultimate personal best. We provide a safe and supportive environment for pupils to flourish in various physical activities, which is essential in supporting their physical, emotional, social and moral development.
Along with our school’s four fundamental key values, through the medium term planning of PE, we promote pupils to adopt a positive mind-set and believe that anything can be achieved with determination and resilience. Throughout school, pupils are given the opportunity to compete in whole school events and local sporting competitions, where they can demonstrate the skills they have learnt, whilst showing enhanced qualities such as teamwork, sportsmanship and communication and social skills with local members of the community.
We aim for all pupils to be physically active for sustained periods of time, taking into account timetabled 50 minute PE lessons, daily mile, sensory breaks and structured break times which embed, influence and encourage the same values and expectations.
All pupils get the opportunity to participate in PE lessons that are planned for and delivered by a PE specialist teacher. This therefore provides pupils with the best possible opportunity to achieve their full potential. All lessons follow the acronym L.E.A.R.N to ensure a sequenced structure, combined with various learning styles, assessment opportunities and strive for enhanced progression. We provide a PE curriculum that promotes long- term memory development of physical, emotional and ethical skills and qualities; this will allow pupils to continuously revisit learning ensuring it is fully embedded. We aim for pupils to experience a full range of sports, focusing on the progression of skills before adapting and transferring those skills in a variety of sporting situations. We also plan for and deliver several different enrichment activities throughout the year including Winter Olympics and Summer Sports Day. This offers an opportunity to build on those skills taught and apply them in game situations.
In Key Stage 2, swimming is introduced to pupils and revisited in following years to ensure pupils achieve the National Expectation; confidently swimming a distance of 25m unaided. In addition to this, when pupils transition into Key Stage 3; they access a weekly PE theory lesson focusing on BTEC/OCR objectives and curriculum statements. This gives them the opportunity to develop the theory based learning underpinning the world of PE and sport.
We aim to link our PE curriculum to the ideals of cultural capital in several different ways, linked to athletes and sports, through the use of studying local sporting hero’s as a topic focus and accessing nearby sporting venues where pupils can put the skills they have developed in action.
The use of formative and summative assessment allows pupils to be monitored and continuously make progress, along with demonstrating their willingness and enthusiastic approach to lessons. Pupil’s attitude towards the subject is often positive and pupil voice highlights the impact the current curriculum is having on them.
Pupils will be monitored around their use of vocabulary and develop their skills of self and peer evaluations by recording performances to critique. In addition to this at Key Stage 3, the PE theory sessions will be assessed against the BTEC criteria.
