P.E.
Intent:
We have designed our PE Curriculum to include outdoor games; indoor activities and educating children about healthy lifestyles and fitness. The children receive specialist teaching for some areas of PE. Both the PE / Sport’s curriculum and Extra-Curricular Sports Programme at Sessay develops children’s knowledge and skills through a wide range of sports and activities which they greatly enjoy, whilst developing their social and emotional well-being.
We aim to ensure:
- To maintain the high profile of PE and Sport across the school.
- To inspire all children to develop a lifelong love of sport for the improvement and maintenance of physical and mental health.
- To allow all children to maintain high levels of physical fitness and understand the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle through regular exercise and a broad, balanced diet.
- To link with local sporting providers to ensure that children who are keen or capable have access to community sporting groups to deepen their interest and hone their skills
- To equip all children with an array of skills that they can confidently practise and apply.
- To engage all pupils in regular physical activity, from Year 1 onwards, receiving at least 2 PE lessons each week and all children having the opportunity to represent the school at competitions.
- EYFS children experience 1 hour of formal PE in addition to their outdoor physical learning opportunities.
- To enhance participation in competitive sport and for children to develop key skills of ‘sports personship’.
- To experience new sports and different sporting careers, by celebrating sport outside as well as inside school.
- For children to be active learners across the whole curriculum for example using ‘Active Maths’ and taking part in brain breaks throughout the day.
- To encourage the school’s values and a growth mindset so children can master self-improvement and effort.
Implementation:
PE at Sessay is taught formally for two hours each week in Y1-Y6, with one hour in reception, plus the outdoor approach to the reception curriculum. Active learning threads through the whole of our curriculum. Following extensive research, we have chosen ‘Twinkl Move’ to support us in the planning and teaching of PE.
- Key underpinning skills and concepts are taught progressively across EYFS and KS1, which then broaden out into specific sports across KS2.
- Our PE learning is linked to our Outdoor Curriculum and Forest School.
We are keen to engage with the local cluster in sporting events for non-competitive and competitive sports. It is an effective way to cement the relationship between primary and secondary organisations and develops children’s skills in becoming young leaders of sport.
Impact:
For many years we have achieved Gold Sports Mark which demonstrates the commitment, we as a school, give PE and Sport. The data gathered annually for this report shows that our pupils:
- Understand the benefits of exercise on both physical and mental health.
- Have improved fitness levels.
- Have a positive and engaged attitude towards PE / physical activity.
- Have developed flexibility, strength, technique, control, agility, co-ordination and balance. They have mastered basic movements including; running, jumping, throwing and catching and are able to apply these to a range of sports.
- Have taken their interest and enthusiasm for a particular type of sport and continued to pursue it out of school.
- Have increased self-esteem through representing the school in competitions and festivals involving other schools.
Leave us able to swim 25 metres and able to demonstrate safe self-rescue. We measure impact using lesson observations, pupil voice and questionnaires home.
