Physical Education Curriculum at XII Apostles
Physical Education; Subject Leader Mr Ahmed and Sports Coach Mr Maj Curriculum Team 3
Intent
We aim to deliver high-quality teaching and learning opportunities that enables all children to achieve their personal best. We aim for all children to have sixty active minutes per day and be able to make informed decisions to lead healthy and active lives. Physical Education is adapted to meet the needs of individual children taking into account their primary need, making reasonable adjustments and through adaptive teaching. We aim to give children, who would not otherwise, the opportunity to participate in a range of sports and healthy activities and become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness now and for their future. We aim for children to be aspirational and have high expectations of themselves, and to be ambitious for their sporting future.
Through our School Sports Values, we encourage our children to learn, through sport, how to win graciously, lose with courage and never give up. Opportunities throughout the whole curriculum are used to ensure the children develop a healthy image of themselves as individuals and to recognise the unique beauty in each individual as God created them.
We aim to ensure that the children develop their motor competence skills, understanding of rules and strategies and how to participate healthily in a range of sports. Swimming is an important life skill; we aspire for all children to leave primary school being able to swim at least 25 metres.
Reading is woven through every subject including Physical Education, enriching pupils' understanding and deepening their knowledge. Physical Education provides meaningful contexts for reading, where children need to read the rules of games, learn key vocabulary and some lessons link to high-quality texts to enhance learning and vocabulary in Physical Education. This reciprocal approach supports pupils in becoming confident, curious readers who can access and enjoy the full curriculum.
We aim for our children to appreciate, experience and engage with all forms of Physical Education and to develop the skills within Physical Education to enable them to access a world of possibilities that PE can offer them both now and later in their lives.
Curriculum Implementation
We use the National Curriculum Programmes of Study in PE as specified in the PE National Curriculum 2014 document. We utilise the PE scheme iPEP to support and plan our own scheme of work, which ensures progression and continuity. This is implemented by building on the declarative and procedural knowledge from the previous year and developing new knowledge within similar sporting activities so that the children know, remember and do more.
The sports coach and PE lead plan out the LTP so that the children show progression of sporting skills, declarative and procedural knowledge of motor competence, rules, tactics and strategies and healthy participation. The sports coach uses the MTPs from the scheme to plan out his weekly session and his own MTP for each year group. Teachers assess pupils at the end of each half term to ensure progress and end of key stage expectations are met by all children. The sports coach uses the Key Performance Indicators at the end of the autumn term and summer term to highlight pupil progression and achievement of year group outcomes.
Our school has a full, rich and varied curriculum, which is enhanced by extra-curricular clubs and activities that are inclusive, enjoyable and increase children’s physical activity. Children participate in high-quality PE lessons with the majority being delivered by a specialist sports coach/teacher. All classes follow the PE overview to ensure children participate in a variety of sports and there is a progression of declarative and procedural knowledge.
In EYFS and KS1 Fundamental movement skills are developed throughout these year groups and applied within the different areas of PE. Children access a range of activities throughout the school including Dance, Gymnastics, Games, Athletics and OAA. The Games element is also broken down into three areas; striking and fielding, invasion games and net and wall games. All three of these are covered across the year groups. Children from Reception to Year 6 have at least one, one hour, lesson of PE a week during curriculum time. In addition to this, classes have a second PE lesson where possible usually during the warmer weather and two classes having a swimming lesson once a week for a half of the year.
Children participate in a variety of competitive sports. Children attend sports festivals for Key Stage 1 and 2. We track the non-participants each term and offer these children additional opportunities during lunchtime clubs. Children attend swimming lessons in Years 3 and those that need additional lessons in Year 6. Our whole-school Sports day includes lots of intra-school competition. All children participate in sport and enjoy all it has to offer without any costs to families.
Impact
Our pupils are physically active and this has positive implications on their learning in the classroom. All children are provided with the skills and given opportunities to demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. Children understand how to lead a healthy lifestyle and understand the importance of exercise. All children enjoy PE lessons and develop a love of sport, and physical activity, they pursue sport outside of school and in future life outside of primary school. All pupils understand the values and importance of fair play and being a good sportsperson. All pupils leave school with the skills to self-rescue in the water and swim 25 metres competently.
