Intent Statement for PE
At Highfields we have designed our PE curriculum so that our learners:
- Are provided with high quality PE teaching, sporting learning opportunities and sports provision which is inclusive for all and engages all pupils in a supportive and challenging environment
- Are immersed in a culture which aims to inspire an active generation who enjoy PE, encourage each other and achieve at their own level
- Are educated in the benefits of sport and exercise, leading to long term healthy and active lifestyles
- Are supported in becoming resilient and reflective, whilst striving for personal excellence and portraying good sportsmanship
- Adopt a growth mindset and believe that anything can be achieved with determination and resilience
- Are taught the value and benefits of collaboration, cooperation and teamwork, with an understanding of fairness and equality of play to embed lifelong values.
- Compete appropriately against others; celebrating their own and others sporting achievements and successes with maturity.
Implementation Statement
Children are taught regularly by both teaching staff and an Aston Villa Foundation sports instructor from Reception to Year 6. The curriculum is further enhanced by participation in numerous sporting activities within Primitas Academy Trust, competitive events with other schools in the local area and after school clubs.
We follow the guidelines set by the relevant statutory frameworks to ensure we offer a range of PE activities that allow each child to develop confidence, have fun, feel challenged and make progress. The children also have the opportunity to attend swimming lessons during their time in KS2.
EYFS
As part of the EYFS statutory framework pupils are taught:
Physical development – involves 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.
Key Stages 1 and 2
Our curriculum is taught in line with the National Curriculum and the learning threads model of the Aston Villa Foundation. This is a spiral curricullum designed to embed and enhance confidence and skill development. The children are given opportunities to explore a variety of skills within a play-based learning approach to enable them to develop physical literacy. Staff are encouraged to embrace creativity, whilst developing problem solvers and critical thinkers.
Key Stage 1
As outlined in the learning threads overview pupils are enabled to:
- develop fundamental movement and agility skills (travelling, changing speed and direction)
- develop balance and core stability skills
- develop coordination skills including the manipulation and mastery of moving objects as well as body mastery
- participate in small sided team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
- engage in competitive (both against self and others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.
Key Stage 2
As outlined in the learning threads overview pupils are enabled to:
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- continue to apply and develop a broader range of movements and skills
- learn how to use the skills they have learnt in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement.
- develop interpersonal skills that allow them to enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with oneanother
- develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports
- learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.
Whole School Curriculum
Threshold Concept
Develop practical skills in order to participate, compete and lead a healthy lifestyle.
Physical education programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2 National curriculum in England
Purpose of study
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.
Aims
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.
Attainment targets
By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study.
Schools are not required by law to teach the example content in [square brackets].
Subject content
Key stage 1
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.
Key stage 2
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.