Physical Education

EYFS

Physical Development is vital in children, enabling them to pursue happy, healthy, active lives. Gross and fine motor experiences are developed through sensory explorations, focussing on strength, co-ordination and positional awareness. We provide opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, which supports our children in building core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility.

KS1

Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

Pupils should be taught to:

master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of
activities  

participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending

 perform dances using simple movement patterns.

KS2

Pupils should continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They should develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.

Pupils should be taught to:

   use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
   play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
   develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance [for example, through athletics and gymnastics]
   perform dances using a range of movement patterns
   take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team

   compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

Swimming and water safety


All schools must provide swimming instruction either in key stage 1 or key stage 2.

In particular, pupils should be taught to:
   swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
   use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
   perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

Aims

A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities. It should provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect

The national curriculum for physical education aims to ensure that all pupils:

  • develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
  • are physically active for sustained periods of time
  • engage in competitive sports and activities
  • lead healthy, active lives

Curriculum Study

In the Early Years starting from our 2 year old provision through to reception,staff make use of the non-statutory guidance Birth to Five matters whilst ensuring the statutory framework for the EYFS is met.  Reception children are assessed against the appropriate early learning goals for Physical Education to contribute them to reaching a good level of development.  

Early Years and Reception children also make use of the GetSet4PE scheme of work to support learning so that children are introduced and prepared for the knowledge, vocabulary and different physical activities they will encounter in Year 1.

Y1 – 6 make use of the GetSet4PE scheme content as a basis for teaching and as a main resource, as it carefully sequences knowledge, concepts and procedures to build Physical Education knowledge and skills. 

Progression in Physical Education

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Longterm Overview

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Displays of PE and school sport

Our PE lessons are filled with fun, excitement and the opportunity to learn and develop our skills in gymnastics, games, dance and swimming.  More importantly, we evaluate throughout and think carefully about how we can improve in the future.  Look at our photos and see what we have been up to

Walk Around School

In Nursery, the children develop their fine motor skills with lots of physical activities.

In Reception, children played lots of team games linked to their introduction to PE unit of work.

In Year 1, children really enjoyed developing their fitness and ball skills..

In Year 2, children developed their skills in throwing and catching and fitness.

In Year 3, children enjoyed developing hockey and gymnastics skills.

In Year 4, the children enjoyed developing hockey and cricket skills.

In Year 5, we developed our Tag Rugby and Basketball skills.