Intent
At St Mary’s CE Primary and Nursery, our core values of Collaboration, Ambition, Respect, Positivity, Integrity and Empowerment are underpinned by the value of peace. These values underpin everything we do.
We welcome children, their parents and carers into a friendly, happy and hardworking environment where respect for others, positive attitudes towards work and behaviour are encouraged and nurtured.
‘Be Ready, Be Respectful and Be Safe’
At St Mary’s, we aim to inspire all children and for each child to fulfil their potential. We want the children’s experience of PE to be positive and motivating. PE enables pupils to become physically confident. This supports their health, wellbeing and fitness and provides the foundations for lifelong activity.
Every child should be provided with the opportunity to succeed and excel in competitive sport and physical activities. We offer all children chances to compete in sport and other activities, helping them build character and learn values such as fairness and respect.
Through PE, we develop the children’s knowledge, skills and understanding. They build confidence and competence in a range of activities.
Implementation
Each child receives 2 hours of PE a week with specialist coaches or class teachers. We plan their sessions to cover a broad and full range of skills and activities. Children in Year 6 attend swimming lessons in a local pool. They learn to swim 25 metres competently and confidently in a range of strokes. Children also have the chance to be active in wide range of clubs. Children in Year 6 are provided with the opportunity to attend Arthog Education Centre to experience a wide range of challenging outdoor activities.
Physical Education is taught at St Mary’s as an area of learning, as well as being integrated where possible with other curriculum areas such as Maths where we provide a contextual opportunity for time and measure. We have implemented a curriculum where pupils from the age of 2 to the age of 11 not only enjoy but also allows them to experience a range of activities that broaden their knowledge and experience. PE consists of two hourly lessons per week.
We teach lessons so that children 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. Every lesson requires the children to think of the importance of preparing their body for physical activity, acquiring and developing new knowledge and skills and also evaluating and improving their performances and the performance of others.
The key knowledge and skills of each topic are mapped across each year group. This ensures that children develop their knowledge of games, dance, gymnastics, athletics and outdoor activity progressively throughout the whole school. The skills in these areas are also developed systematically, with the programme of study for each year group building on previous learning and preparing for subsequent years. Knowledge and skills are informed and linked to enable achievement of key stage end points, as informed by the 2014 National Curriculum.
As part of the Marches Multi Academy Trust (MMAT), children are given a wide range of opportunities to engage in inter and intra competitions throughout the year. This allows them to communicate, collaborate and compete against each other on a consistent basis.
At St Mary’s, we acquire an outside agency to teach PE alongside class teachers. This ensures that every child receives high quality PE and that teachers receive specialist training on a regular basis.
Our PE Curriculum, along with PSHE and science, teaches children about the importance of healthy living and learning about the need for good nutrition. We aim for children to develop the necessary knowledge and skills which will have a positive impact on their future by becoming physically active citizens to benefit their long-term health and well-being.
The impact
All children receive a broad and balanced PE curriculum. . Teachers plan PE with clear progression of skills and knowledge. This ensures that all children access it at an age-appropriate level.
We also hold daily opportunities for physical activity. These include a daily wellbeing walk and playground games at lunchtimes.
In order to increase our children’s cultural capital, we provide a range of opportunities:
- Inter-schools sporting competitions
- FA football cup competitions
- Arthog residential visit where children experience a variety of outdoor activities such as, orienteering, mining, mountain walk as well as team building activities where children focus on problem solving.
- A wide range coaches from local clubs providing taster and termly blocks of sessions (cricket, tennis, football, multi-sports)
Key Knowledge and Skills:
Gymnastics PE knowledge and skills
Net games knowledge and skills
ongoing knowledge and skills
Striking and fielding knowledge and skills
Athletics knowledge and skills
Invasion Games PE knowledge and skills
Dance PE knowledge and skills
Progression Documents:
PE Long term plan
EYFS Power of PE Progression: Running & Stopping
EYFS Power of PE Progression: Throwing
EYFS Power of PE Progression: Catching
EYFS Power of PE Progression: Balance
Year 1 – Year 6: The Power of P.E Progression