PE Curriculum Rationale

Intent

Our P.E Curriculum embodies our values of:

Personal Excellence by ensuring the children make progress in obtaining the knowledge and skills to improve in creating and beating personal bests, to play games and take part in competitive sports.

Respect and Friendship by ensuring children know how to play as part of a team and against a team, demonstrating the qualities of fair play and good sportspersonship.

Inspiration by engaging and inspiring the children to increase their physical stamina and enjoyment in physical activities, by exposing them to role models and examples of excellence and an understanding of how sport has contributed to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.

Determination and Courage by challenging children and encouraging them to develop physical, social and emotional wellbeing through sport.

Equality by using examples of excellence from different genders, countries, cultures and from history, to inspire, engage and challenge the children.

The children are encouraged to reflect upon and evaluate their work and that of others, to enable them to develop their ideas and reasoning.

Implementation

At Halstead Community Primary School PE Pro is used to deliver the PE curriculum. Children in key stage 1 will be taught to:

• develop general physical skills related to co-ordination, agility and balance
• participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
• perform dances using simple movement patterns.

Then in key stage 2, the children will 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.

 

Key skills and knowledge for P.E have been mapped across the school to ensure progression across the key stages in two year cycles.

Impact

Through our P.E curriculum, the children will:

·      develop attitudes, skills and knowledge of sport in lessons

·      be exposed to different sports through workshops and Sevenoaks Partnership competitions

·      take part in and celebrate achievement in termly inter/intra challenges and sports reports by children who have represented the school

·      have the opportunity to take part in a variety of active lunchtime and after school clubs

·      have increased physical stamina