Intention

What are we trying to achieve?

St. Benedict’s Primary School is a Rights Respecting School and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is at the heart of everything we do. 

          “Enjoying our rights and fulfilling our dreams”

We believe that by understanding their own rights, children learn to respect and value the rights of others.     

We aim for our children to be:

• Ambitious-To have a strong desire to achieve
• Resilient- To have the ability to withstand and bounce back from difficult life events
• Respectful- To behave in a way that shows you care about your own rights and the rights of others, the local and global community and environment.

The following articles underline our Aims;

Article 3

"The best interests of the child must be a top priority in all our actions."

Article 29

"Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures and the environment."

We provide a curriculum that offers a range of opportunities for pupils to improve their mental health and wellbeing, promotes physical participation, enables pupils to fulfil their physical and emotional potential and allows pupils to become physically confident supporting their health and fitness.

We aim to provide this through;

• building self-confidence and esteem
• learning to cooperate as a team
• displaying leadership skills
• motivating and enthusing children to be actively involved
• being proud of our achievements
• providing quality opportunities for children outside of school time
• ensuring a safe and stimulating environment
• promoting fair play and respect. 

We intend for our pupils to develop a lifelong love of physical activity and competitive sport. We aim to help ensure a positive and healthy physical and mental outlook in the future and help our pupils to develop essential skills like leadership and teamwork.
 

Implementation

How do we organise this?

Our PE curriculum uses the 2014 National Curriculum as our learning framework. Our long term planning covers the subject content for Key stage one and two and has cross curricular links with our topic themed lessons. Our topics use the ‘Complete PE’ units of work.  

The EYFS follows the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum where specific outcomes are linked to physical education within the National Curriculum and are essential for pupils to transition smoothly. Pupils are taught a range of skills through a variety of topic based themes; particularly in physical development through moving and handling and health and self-care and expressive arts and design through exploring media and materials and being imaginative.

In Key stage one the PE curriculum is on the development of the fundamental skills that are then built upon in Key stage two and applied to specific sports. By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study.

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 co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

Pupils should be taught to:

• master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
• participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
• perform dances using simple movement patterns.

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.

Pupils should be taught to:

• use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
• play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
• develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance [for example, through athletics and gymnastics
• perform dances using a range of movement patterns
• take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
• compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

Class teachers are provided with a wealth of resources to support their subject knowledge that is required to teach and deliver high quality teaching and learning opportunities. Technical glossaries, skills posters, knowledge organisers and videos are all available to staff. Lessons are planned progressively; each lesson is an opportunity for pupils to practise existing skills and build on or develop new or advanced skills.

All PE at St Benedict’s Primary School is inclusive, lessons are differentiated to ensure that all pupils can participate at their level; but are also challenged at every opportunity.

Formative assessments are recorded during PE lessons to identify achievements and where challenge or support is required for future lessons. Complete PE assessment tools allow us to identify where pupils are in their physical development and how to develop their skills.

St Benedict’s Primary School provides a number of after-school clubs throughout the week to all pupils. These clubs are delivered by professional coaches and cover a series of National Curriculum skills.

Other skills on developing pupils’ awareness of positive mental health and knowledge on keeping ourselves healthy will also be taught through PSHE, health weeks and science topics.

Pupils at St Benedict’s Primary School will compete in sport through various sports days and weeks throughout the year.

Impact

How do we know it is successful?

All PE units cover a range of skills that are progressive through year groups (see PE progression document) to ensure learners develop detailed knowledge and skills across the full breadth of the PE curriculum through engaging and age appropriate curriculum content. The strong cross curricular themes make learning memorable, allows pupils to make connections, use language across lessons and use and apply skills and knowledge; inevitably creating a high level of engagement and understanding.

 Attainment and progress can be measured for all pupils so that lessons are tailored to support the needs of pupils and close gaps.

As each unit is progressive through each year group, skills are revised and built upon each year. For example, in reception pupils will begin to learn to roll, travel, stretch, balance and jump in a variety of ways in gymnastics. By the end of Key Stage One, pupils will move onto copying, exploring and remembering actions to link these actions and make sequences. Pupils will need to hold shapes whilst balancing, use equipment safely and move with increasing control. Pupils will begin to perform sequences of their own and with increasing control.  At the end of Lower Key Stage Two pupils will progress to create a sequence of actions to fit a theme that includes a huge range of actions. Pupils will need to move with clarity, fluency and expression and develop strength, technique and flexibility throughout their performances. Pupils will perform sequences to others whilst applying skills and techniques with control and accuracy.

Staff and pupil voice will demonstrate how staff are given many opportunities to develop their own practice and improve their skills and knowledge. Pupils will indicate how much they are engaged during PE lessons, what skills they have learnt and use a range of PE technical vocabulary. Pupils will showcase what they have learnt through whole class/ school assemblies; particularly through dance units to share their achievements. At the end of each unit pupils will demonstrate and share the progress that they have made.

Pupils will learn a variety of further skills and knowledge during after school clubs and demonstrate these in lessons or through other physical activities.

P.E is taught as a basis for lifelong learning, our children will have access to a wide range of activities, which are taught well so that they can compete and succeed. Our pupils will go on to have confident physically active lives inspired from their education on the benefits of positive health and wellbeing. Our pupils will be healthy and happy.

P.E Policy
P.E Overview

Progression Maps
Athletics
Basketball
Cricket
Dance
Gymnastics
Handball
Hockey EY- KS2
Netball
Rounders

Knowledge Organisers 
Foundation
Ball Skills Feet
Dance Dinosaurs
Dance Nursery Rhymes
Dance
Games for Understanding
Gymnastics 1

Year 1
Dance Growing
Games
Gymnastics Body Parts
Gymnastics
Jumping
Rackets Bats and Balls

Year 2
Dance water
Games
Gymnastics Linking
Gymnastics Pathways
Locomotion Dodging
Rackets Bats and Balls

Year 3
Athletics
Dance Wild Animals
Dodgeball
Games
Gymnastics
Tennis

Year 4
Dance Space
Game sense
Gymnastics Bridges
Hockey

Year 5
Athletics
Basketball
Dance Greeks
Gymnastics

Year 6
Athletics
Cricket
Dance Carnival
Football
Games
Gymnastics 1