Our PE curriculum provides opportunities for pupils to become physically confident which will support their overall health and fitness. We will develop their understanding and confidence in leading a healthy lifestyle and ensure pupils are physically active for sustained periods of time. The curriculum encourages opportunities for pupils to engage in competitive sports and other activities that build character and help embed values such as fairness and respect.

We teach the children about fitness and health by building on their natural enthusiasm for movement.

We use our grounds and physical resources to help the children explore and learn about their world, and we teach skills in physical development that enable them to work and play with other pupils in pairs and small groups.

By watching, listening and experimenting, they develop their skills in movement and coordination, and enjoy expressing and testing themselves in a variety of situations.

Knowledge, skills and understanding

1. Acquiring and developing skills - pupils are taught to explore basic skills, actions and ideas with increasing understanding and to remember/repeat simple skills/actions with increasing control and coordination.

2. Selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional ideas - pupils are taught to explore how to choose and apply skills and actions in sequence and in combination as well as vary the way they perform skills by using simple tactics and movement phrases and also to apply rules and conventions for different activities.

3. Evaluating and improving performance - pupils are taught to describe what they have done, to observe/describe/copy what others have done and to use what they have learnt to improve the quality and control of their work.

4. Knowledge and understanding of fitness and health - pupils are taught how important it is to be active and to recognise & describe how their bodies feel during different activities.

5. Breadth of study - pupils will be taught the knowledge, skills and understanding through dance activities, games activities and gymnastic activities.

Useful links for a healthy lifestyle

Here are some useful links to help your children to stay healthy at home including how to be active or lots of healthy recipes for your children to try. Some of these are especially helpful for you to remain active on a rainy winter's day. Click on the links below to find out more.

• NHS England
• Change For Life
• The Body Coach TV
• This Girl Can
• PASS (Physical Activity & Sports Specialist)

P.E Overview

We work with the P.A.S.S (Physical Activity & Sports Specialist) organisation and use their scheme of work across the school.  There are a number of units allocated to each year group, allowing teachers flexibility of content.