“Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.”
John F Kennedy

Subject Coordinator: TBA

External Links:  – Swift Sports

VISION AND INTENT

A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. It should provide opportunities for pupils 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 curriculum aims to promote an understanding of the many benefits of exercise, through a balanced range of relevant activities. It is also important to us to provide a succession of sequential swimming lessons to enable our pupils to become water confident and competent in a range of strokes and water safety skills.

In addition to the importance placed on P.E. lessons, we also promote our wider curriculum offer which includes the opportunities for pupils to take part in extra-curricular sports and activity clubs. Daily physical activity and health enhancing activities also play a crucial role in our offer to pupils. This includes: active break and lunchtimes and sports provider club offered twice a week.

CURRICULUM AND IMPLEMENTATION

Teachers create a positive attitude to physical education within their classrooms and reinforce an expectation that all pupils are capable of achieving high standards in PE.

Aims

The national curriculum for physical education aims to ensure that all pupils: 

• 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. 

Planning

Planning for PE is completed at three levels:

1. A whole school PE overview- ensuring coverage and a progression of skills.              
2. Medium term unit plans.

ASSESSMENT

Children’s progress is continually monitored throughout their time at Rangeworthy and is used to inform future teaching and learning. By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know and apply skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study as set out in the National Curriculum. These are set out as statutory requirements. We also draw on the non-statutory requirements to extend our children and provide an appropriate level of challenge. 

In P.E. assessment is an ongoing process where teaching staff evaluate the progress of children’s learning and assess and record progress. This informs the learning and teaching for future lessons. At the beginning and end of any unit of work children can be assessed to establish a starting point and track progress achieved.

Specific records will be kept by the class teacher for swimming awards and achievements and passed to the next teacher. Staff taking after school sport clubs will keep a register of children attending then pass the register to the PE coordinator. The criteria for success and learning objectives are made clear to pupils, which enables them to evaluate their own progress in learning.