PE Curriculum

                                                                                             

 

Physically educated persons are those who have learned to arrange their lives in such a way that the habitual physical activities they freely engage in make a distinctive contribution to their wider flourishing.

- James MacAllister

Intent

At Beaumont Primary Academy we believe that children should learn about Physical education and use this to enhance their life beyond their time at our school. We want children to become physically confident in a way which supports their health, fitness and understanding of how they use their bodies to carry our physically demanding activities. We truly believe in the principles of physical education and sport and how this can be a vehicle for all children to learn, not just about sport but about personal qualities that will stay with them for a lifetime.

As an active school, we want our children to move throughout the school day and for Physically Active Learning (PAL) be a key foundation that underpins how children learn.

Physical Education plays a key role in this and the teaching ‘of the physical’ will ensure our children develop and progress in our 4 key areas:

• Acquiring new skills
• Selecting and applying tactics and compositional ideas
• Evaluating and improving performance
• Knowledge and understanding of health and fitness

 

We believe that if children are confident and self-aware in these 4 areas, they will become physically confident.

As well as developing the physical aspect of the subject, we whole-heartedly believe in the development of the child’s social skills. Our Physical Education curriculum will allow children to develop: resilience; respect of others; cooperation, team-work and determination – which are all hugely important in developing the ‘whole-child’.

Our Physical Education curriculum, in addition to our belief in Physically Active Learning, will ultimately ensure that our children:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities;
• are physically active for sustained periods of time;
• engage in competitive sports and activities;
• lead healthy, active lives.

 

 Implementation

Children receive a twice weekly Physical Education lesson which focuses on particular skill developments linked to a game/sport. These skills are centred around the development of: fundamental movement, catching/throwing, balance, sequencing an invasion. Early Years Foundation and Key Stage 1 children focus on the fundamental movement and body awareness. Once children have developed body awareness and the fundamental movements in EYFS and Key Stage 1, they are then progressed in Key Stage 2 into games and more physically demanding activities.

Children receive a broad exposure to a wide-variety of activities and sports to help them develop specific skills. Children in all year groups have the opportunity to attend sports clubs lead by specialist coaches. We encourage pupils from all year groups to take part in competitions with local schools; for a wide range of sports and activities.

 

Impact

We believe that Physical Education lessons should follow the same key principles of classroom teaching where the objectives of the lesson and success criteria is shared with children. Throughout the lesson, children are given the opportunity to self-assess and reflect on their performance.

The quality of Physical Education is measured regularly by the subject leader and the improving skills and CPD of staff is a key priority of the PE & Sports Premium action plan. Leaders use child voice to ensure children find lessons enjoyable, purposeful and ultimately talk about the subject and their successes confidently.

We are also working hard to encourage more girls to take part in sports. We offer girls only sports clubs and enter girls only competitions, to give less confident girls the opportunity to try new sports. As a result we hope this will improve girls participation in sport and keeping active. 

 

 PE Overview

Subject PE	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer1	Summer 2
EYFS	Me and myself	Movement development	Working with others	Dance	Ball Skills	Fun and Games
Year 1	Basketball  Gymnastics	Tag Rugby  Dance	Tennis Dodgeball	Golf  Gymnastics	Orienteering Volleyball	Cricket   Athletics
Year 2	Athletics  Dance	Gymnastics  Football	Golf Badminton	Netball   Gymnastics	Cricket  Dodgeball	Orienteering  Tennis
Year 3	Gymnastics Tag Rugby	Dance  Tennis	Gymnastics Basketball	Golf  Orienteering	Badminton Hockey	Rounders Athletics
Year 4	Dance Hockey	Gymnastics Orienteering	Badminton Football	Gymnastics Dodgeball	Athletics Netball	Cricket  Volleyball
Year 5	Swimming  Gymnastics	Swimming Golf	Swimming Basketball	Swimming Dance	Swimming Cricket	Swimming Athletics
Year 6	Dance  Football	Gymnastics Dodgeball	Badminton Hockey	Gymnastics  Volleyball	Netball  Orienteering	Athletics Rounders

 

Skills progression document - Early Years

pe skill progression 25 26 eyfs .pdf

Skills progression document - Key Stage 1 & 2

pe skill progression 25 26.pdf