Physical Education

Intent

Our PE curriculum is designed to encourage all children from nursery to Year 6 to enjoy a range of different physical activities that aid them to have a mentally and physically healthy life for years to come. Linking to the national curriculum that states ‘develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities’, we aim for children to develop the knowledge and skills to be proficient and succeed in a range of competitive sports. Through PE, we promote personal developments by enabling children to challenge themselves, try new things and work effectively within a team. 

Implementation

At Gorseland we teach an engaging PE curriculum which covers the national curriculum requirements. Our curriculum is progressive in that children’s physical skills in different disciplines are built upon each year with increasing levels of challenge, starting with Fundamental movement skills that form the foundation of many sports, games and activities.

Through our teaching, children are encouraged to develop their physical skills and confidence in their own ability and work with others to follow the rules of a game fairly. They are taught to critically observe, analyse and evaluate performance, identifying aspects that make a performance excellent. Lesson plans are adapted so that all children have the opportunity to participate in PE at their own level of development, with teachers ensuring that lessons cater for individual needs. 

Our high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all children to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. Our curriculum provides all children opportunities 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.

The national curriculum outlines that children  ‘are physically active for sustained periods of time’. To ensure this, we offer a range of activities at break times and after school to encourage children to be physically active, the daily mile during the school day, sports clubs and wider opportunities such as visitors and competitions. We also have year 6 sports teams who compete in fixtures and competitions against other local schools. 

Impact

The intended impact of our PE curriculum is that children have:

Teachers use precise skills teaching and assess children regularly to identify those children with gaps in learning who need further support and practise or those that are exceeding expectations in order to plan for next steps. Teachers make and record a judgement on the extent to which children are competent in the taught skill/skills in each lesson. 

Subject leaders monitor teaching and learning in their subject through observing teaching and learning in lessons, analysing the work produced by children, talking to samples of children in different year groups about what they know and remember from their learning and termly data analysis to track the progress of learning in their subject across the school. 

Long Term Plan

Reception

Autumn

Walking

Spring

High, low, over under

Ourselves

Summer

Feet 1

Games for understanding

Year 1

Autumn

Running 1

Wide, narrow, curled.

Hands 1

Growing

Spring

Feet 1

Body parts

Hands 2

The Zoo

Summer

Jumping 1

Games for understanding

Teambuilding

Health and well-being

Year 2

Autumn

Linking

Feet 1

Hands 1

Explorers

Spring

Hands 2

Pathways

Jumping 1

Water

Summer

Teambuilding

Dodging 1

Games for understanding

Health and well-being

Year 3

Autumn

Netball

Symmetry and Asymmetry

Handball

Football

Spring

Wild animals

Communication and Tactics

Dodgeball

Tag Rugby

Summer

Problem Solving

Tennis

Rounders 

Athletics

Year 4

Autumn

Bridges

Tag Rugby

Communication and Tactics

Cats

Spring

Basketball

Hockey

Space

Football

Summer

Tennis

Netball

Rounders 

Athletics

Year 5

Autumn

Counter balance and tension

Netball

Swimming

Football

Spring

Handball

Tag Rugby

Hockey 

Tennis

Summer

Badminton

Cricket

Athletics

Rounders

Year 6

Autumn

Orienteering

Communication and Tactics

Tag Rugby

Health related Exercise

Spring

Problem Solving

Basketball

Matching and mirroring

Titanic

Summer

Tennis

Athletics

Cricket

Rounders