Our PE curriculum is designed to cover all of the knowledge and understanding as set out in the National Curriculum. To ensure that children develop secure knowledge that they can build on, it is organised into a progression model that outlines the knowledge and skills to be taught in a sequentially coherent way.
The teaching of PE at our school is categorised into four disciplines:
- Games
- Dance
- Gymnastics
- Athletics
All pupils learn to become physically confident and consciously healthy in ways that support and inspire their overall health and fitness. All children are provided with opportunities to take part in sports and daily physical activities that build character and embed values such as teamwork, fairness and respect.
Core Elements of PE Teaching
- Engaging and inspiring lessons that promote critical thinking and curiosity.
- Retrieval of previous learning and explicit links through concepts that connect new learning with what the children already know.
- Carefully chosen resources and models within lessons.
- A focus on ambitious vocabulary used in context.
- Opportunities for extended ‘deliberate practice’ to build practical experience to evaluate from.
- Enriching learning experiences through, trips, workshops, visitors.
- Carefully chosen and planned lessons and activities that are scaffold and adapted to ensure all children meet the intent of the curriculum.
Curriculum
Our EYFS follows the Early Years Foundation Stage framework. ‘Physical Development’ involves children developing their fine and gross motor skills and children are taught to negotiate space and obstacles safely, move energetically through running, jumping, skipping and climbing, and demonstrate strength, balance and coordination through play.
In Key Stage 1, children 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.
In Key Stage 2, children continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills and begin to learn how to use them in different ways and link them to make actions and sequences of movement. Children communicate, collaborate, and compete with each other and develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports whilst learning how to evaluate and recognise their own success. Local facilities are utilised so that children can partake in weekly swimming lessons in a designated year group.
Cultural Capital
Children are offered a wide range of enriching and engaging experiences which are designed to engage as many as our pupils as possible in the widest range of physical activities and sports, inside and outside of school.
Our extra-curricular programme offers a wide range of sports activities including ballet, football, boxing, multi skills and taekwondo and local sports clubs and coaches are regularly invited into school to provide specialist coaching to children, whilst also encouraging the development of leadership skills.
Our annual Keeping Healthy Week is an opportunity for pupils to take part in a wider range of sports that they are not usually exposed to and there are opportunities to compete against other schools within the federation. Sports Day is also a feature of this week and is held at a local park within the community.
As well as sporting opportunities within the school, children participate in sports competitions in Hackney, with diversity within sport and disadvantaged children a key feature in our enrichment programme. Children in Key Stage 2 have access to cycling sessions across the school year and have the opportunity to take part in the local cycling league. These experiences allow for children to apply their sporting skills, develop team skills and learn how to play competitively.
We also have facilities in school to support healthy and sustainable travel, with many pupils choosing to travel to school on foot, bike or scooter.
Accessibility for all children
Our expectation is that the majority of children will move through the programmes of study at broadly the same pace through supporting children with additional inputs, interventions, peer support and resources.
The ambitious and inclusive nature of the curriculum allows a range of access points that ensure all children, including those with special educational needs, succeed, regardless of their circumstances, with high expectations set for everyone.
For more information on our approach to teaching PE, please look at our coffee morning timetable for the next available session or make an appointment in the school office to speak with our PE subject leader.
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