Intent
At Bowbrook Primary , we provide a PE curriculum for pupils to not only enjoy but that also allows them to experience a range of activities that help them to develop their health, fitness, and wellbeing.
The national curriculum for PE 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
We intend to offer a high-quality physical education curriculum that inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities. It provides 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.
We want all children to experience a wide variety of sports and physical skills which will enhance life-long fitness and life choices. PE can challenge and promote self-esteem through the development of physical confidence and problem solving. It can teach children to cope with both success and failure in competitive, individual and team based physical activities. Within dance it will allow children to explore their personal and spiritual identity.
Implementation:
The curriculum is sequenced to ensure that pupils build upon the fundamental skills that they have been taught. These can be broken down into:
- Locomotor skills: Running, jumping, hopping, and skipping.
2. Object: control skills: Catching, throwing, bouncing and kicking.
3. Stability skills: Balancing, twisting, rotation, and landing.
In addition to this, we also ensure each pupil develops the understanding of competitive sport through tactical thinking and regulating their emotions through success and failure.
We use Get Set 4PE to ensure that the children consistently build on their skills over time. The curriculum is set out as follows:
PE in EYFS
As part of the EYFS statutory framework pupils are taught:
Physical development: providing opportunities for young children to be active and interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity, and to make healthy choices in relation to food.
Moving and handling: children show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. They handle equipment and tools effectively.
Health and self-care: children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
Support for Pupils with SEND
At the beginning of each unit of work, key pieces of knowledge for the unit are selected and work takes place to ensure that pupils with SEND are retaining and building on this. In addition, adaptations within lessons such as bigger/smaller goals, less/more distance travelled is there to support the pupils to achieve within all P.E. lessons.
Impact
Regular learning sessions will show that pupils are confident and able to talk knowledgeably about what they have learned in P.E. using subject specific vocabulary. The pupil voice discussions should show that pupils enjoy P.E. and can recall their learning and knowledge over time, making links between units of work. Lesson observations also triangulate this.
Pupils demonstrating their skills learnt within their P.E. lessons through mini games and competitive opportunities highlights that PE is taught at a high standard across the school with opportunities for pupils to develop their skills.
PE Progression of knowledge and skills