Physical Education

Our PE Vision

At Fens Primary School, our vision is to promote a fully engaging and inclusive PE curriculum so every child has the opportunity to maximise their competence and development of fundamental skills to excel in a wide of physical activities and inspire children to lead healthy, active lives.

Intent

Our school believes that PE is about promoting children’s enjoyment, confidence and skill in physical activity in order to foster a positive attitude towards an active and healthy lifestyle. P.E. is essential to the development of the whole child. It promotes the development of physical, personal, social and intellectual skills alongside which, cooperation, tolerance, respect, character building and self-esteem can also flourish.

Aims

To implement the National Curriculum through high quality PE activities
To provide opportunities for participation, enjoyment and success irrespective of age, ability or gender
To develop co-ordination, skills and fitness through a range of physical activities
To provide opportunities for all children to achieve their full potential and to meet their own challenges
To adopt a healthy attitude towards sport in order to promote future health and well being
To foster a respect for others and the environment
To ensure safe practice by developing an understanding of safety procedures and enabling children to apply them in a variety of contexts
To abide by rules laid down by themselves and others and demonstrate good sporting behaviour
To raise the awareness of the increasing need for good personal hygiene, particularly in relation to physical activities

To strive to be an ‘Evidence Informed’ school, taking into account the important role different forms of evidence can play in improving our school PE curriculum through informing decision making and implementation practices that continually work to improve the outcomes of teaching and learning.

In order to achieve this goal, we will:

Engage with a wide range of research, related to both PE and wider teaching and learning
Explore areas of school practice that can be improved and clearly define them for all school stakeholders
Prepare clear school development plans that outline how implementation activities and resources will be deployed to meet the intended outcomes
Deliver and Adapt implementation strategies, monitoring their effectiveness through developed school systems and a flexible and collaborative peer-to-peer approach to school improvement
Sustain and scale successful implementation practices to ensure they are embedded.

Develop children’s awareness of their ability to self-regulate and think about their learning by sustaining and promoting the school’s metacognition agenda, in order to develop metacognitive strategies in conjunction with building a progressive understanding of PE concepts

How we implement our PE Curriculum

At Fens, each child is entitled to two hours of PE a week. Teaching and learning in PE in Fens is sequential from EYFS to Year 6 to ensure children’s prior knowledge is revisited and refined and the skills and knowledge are developed to ensure the children achieve the aims of the national curriculum of PE.

Early Years Foundation Stage:

PE in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is supplemented by the Physical Development area of ‘Birth to Five Matters’, building up to physical development area of the Early Learning Goals, ensuring children are ready to access the PE curriculum in Key Stage One. In EYFS, children develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility. Repeated and varied opportunities to explore and play with small world activities, puzzles, arts and crafts and the practice of using small tools, with feedback and support from adults, allow children to develop proficiency, control and confidence. Children also learn the importance of good health and physical exercise.

Key Stage One:

PE in Key Stage One builds upon the children’s learning in EYFS and is sequentially planned to develop their knowledge with the end point of the achieving the expected outcomes ready to move onto the next key stage. Children developing key fundamental movement skills is a major focus of the PE curriculum in Key Stage One, incorporating using simple tactics for attacking and defending in team games. The Key Stage One curriculum also provides the children with a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and co-ordination in athletics, gymnastics and dance.

Lower Key Stage Two:

PE in lower Key Stage Two continues to build upon the fundamental movement skills of the Key Stage One curriculum, which allows the children to develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways, and begin to take part in competitive games. Dance, gymnastics and athletics units in Year 3 and 4 build upon the children’s learning in KS1 to develop the children’s flexibility, technique and balance to equip the children with the skills and knowledge they will need to move into upper Key Stage Two.

Upper Key Stage Two:

In Year 5 and 6, the children’s knowledge of fundamental movement skills are further developed and applied in games units in upper Key Stage Two. Children develop their understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success. Children have greater opportunities to participate in competitive games and activities and further develop their knowledge of tactics for attacking and defending. In Year 5 and 6, children continue to develop their flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance in athletics, gymnastics and dance units, including creating and performing sequences and using a range of movement patterns in creative movement units (dance and gymnastics).

Swimming and Water Safety

Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
Use a range of strokes effectively
Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

PE Long Term Plan

PE - EYFS & KS1 Athletics Curriculum Map

PE - KS2 Athletics Curriculum Map