Physical Education

The PE Curriculum

PE Statement

Purpose:

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.

Intent:

At Rockwell Green C of E Primary School, we value PE as a key component of our school curriculum and as such, we dedicate substantial time to our physical education and development in our curriculum and wider curriculum. We aspire to ensure that all pupils are provided with a rich and ambitious PE curriculum which is inclusive of gender and ability. We also use Sports Premium funding to enhance two of the five stated categories through the PE curriculum (Please see the Sports Premium Plan for further details). These are:

• The profile of PE and Sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement. Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and Sport.

We aim for our Physical Education Curriculum to be:

•  In line with our school’s culture to enhance Personal Development and Behaviours and Attitudes
•  Focused on multi-abilities (Physical, Social, Personal, Creative, Cognitive and Health & Fitness) in line with Real PE
• Coherently planned and developmentally progressive
• Learning focused not just sport and skill focused
• Focused on developing the key skills: Agility, Balance and Co-ordination (ABC)
• Active for all children
• Challenging (experiencing success and failure in an emotionally safe place) yet achievable
• Positive and meaningful
• Inspiring leading to good life-long healthy habits

 

Early Years Foundation Stage

We encourage and expect the development of the Core Areas (Communication and Language, Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development) through our Physical Education Curriculum. The children's learning in Physical Development includes moving confidently and imaginatively with control and coordination, recognising the changes that happen to their bodies when they are active and using a range of small and large equipment.

 

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 cooperative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

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.

Swimming
In swimming, Key Stage 2 pupils will learn to:

• 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
• Years 3, 5 and 6 attend weekly swimming sessions at different points through the year

Implementation

Teaching & Learning

• REAL PE is used to deliver the physical education curriculum alongside teachers making links to their curriculum and adding learning activities when appropriate

REAL PE is accessed using the Jasmine website https://real.jasmineactive.com/ and teachers make a judgement based on the skills they observe during lessons.

• REAL PE is coherently planned and developmentally progressive. Each unit focuses on one of the multi-abilities (personal, social, cognitive, creative, physical and Health & Fitness). Within these units Fundamental Movement Skills are taught which develop the ABC attributes: Agility, Balance and Co-ordination.

Please see the Multi-Ability Progression Statements document and the Fundamental Movement Skills Progression Document for further details

• Each class is timetabled so that they can access the hall at least twice a week regularly.
• Teaching staff deliver high quality PE lessons for 1.5-2 hours per week.
• Swimming lessons are provided by qualified teachers from Wellington swimming pool. Yr3 go swimming in the Autumn term once a week with Yr5 going in the Spring term and Summer 1 term. Yr6 go swimming in the Summer 2 term. This approach is used rather than every year group swimming once a half-term so children have an opportunity to repeat skills and therefore retain them in the long-term memory.
• A skilled PE coach is used to deliver PE through PPA to enhance the quality of the provision and to offer subject specific support to teachers. An additional half termly morning session is delivered by the sports coach to further develop skills and also to develop leadership opportunities in upper KS2.

Inclusion

• Lessons will provide good quality experiences that are suitably challenging for all pupils.
•  Children will undertake different level of challenges, but all will be given the same opportunity to achieve the aims through appropriate differentiation.
• For children with limited gross motor skills, the integrity of the learning tasks will be maintained and expectations will consider the individual needs of pupils.

 

Assessment & Recording

• Assessment for Learning is carried out by teachers through the class lesson and verbal feedback is given to the pupils to enable them to enhance their skills. The REAL PE plans and the two progression grids are used to support teachers with this.
•  In KS2, the REAL PE plans include an opportunity for the children to assess themselves using Personal Best sheets which compares what they could achieve in certain tasks at both beginning of each unit and the end of each unit. Teachers can use this approach in other year groups if they feel it is appropriate.

• Physical development levels and progress are recorded by the Reception teacher for each child.

Physical Education is included as part of the end of year reports to parents. Teachers decide on whether a pupil is below age related expectations, at age related expectations or above age related expectations by using the two progression grids.

Breaktime and Lunchtime Provision 

After School Clubs

We offer a range of sporting activities, both before and after school, to further develop the children's enjoyment and opportunity to participate in sport. These include rugby, football, multi-skills, and a dance club as well as Change 4 Life sessions. We are keen to get involved in local competitions and are part of the SASP buy-in which delivers tournaments and festivals to different year groups throughout the year.

Sports Premium Grant

The government provides schools with a PE Grant to support and develop the PE curriculum. A school of our size receives £16,000 plus £10 per student. To see how we make use of this grant, please click here which will take you to our sports premium page. This information can also be found by going to Key Information/ Sports Premium on our website.