What we teach
Our Physical Education curriculum has been designed to enable our children to develop their physical fitness, stamina and understanding of the body during exercise and to instil in them a lifelong love of physical activity, sport and PE, alongside a positive healthy and physical outlook. We follow the National Curriculum for Key stage 1 and the new statutory Framework for Early Years. There are opportunities for children to compete in sport that enables them to develop leadership and teamwork skills; build character and feel a sense of personal success in an atmosphere of healthy competition.
Our Physical Education curriculum provides a coherent, structured, curriculum that leads to sustained mastery for all and a greater depth of knowledge and skills for those who are capable. It sets out a clear list of what will be covered for each year group which ensures each teacher, even as a non-specialist, has clarity as to what to cover, the threshold concepts children should understand, and progression within the threshold concepts for mastery.
Our Key Physical Education concepts: Movement, Gymnastics, Dance, Ball skills, Team games, Athletics: are organised so that children are able to return to the same concepts each year to enable children to reinforce and build upon prior learning, make connections and develop subject specific language.
Our Physical Education milestones define the standards for the threshold concepts. We expect children in Early Years we follow the EYFS framework to move in different ways with control, balance and co-ordination. We expect children in year 1 of each key stage to develop a basic understanding of the concepts and an advancing or deep understanding in year 2 of the milestone.
How we teach it
Our teaching of Physical Education is taught as a discrete subject, daily in reception and twice weekly in KS1 following the Jasmine Active scheme at a tool. Our Physical Education concepts are revisited in all years to ensure there is progression to help build depth to their knowledge, skills and understanding.
Physical Education activities are planned for within our continuous provision which enables application and replication of physical knowledge and skills taught in different contexts, with pertinent cross curricula links, offering a more open ended approach to learning which challenges and empowers children to demonstrate their learning and skills in imaginative and different ways. It also builds on previously taught knowledge, both day-to-day and across year groups.
What pupils have learnt
The impact of our curriculum is that by the end of each milestone, the vast majority of children have sustained mastery of the content, that is, they remember it all and are fluent in it; some children have greater knowledge and skills. Our assessment ensures that teachers and children assess their learning continuously throughout the lesson. We equip children with the skills and love of sport and to grow up to live happy and healthy lives.
Opportunities for the future
We ensure our children are made aware of careers they could aspire to do in the future through their love of physical education: professional athlete, sports coach/teacher, physiotherapist, sports and fitness nutritionist, sports news reporter, gymnast.
Year 2 - In Class Learning - 2025-26
2ME had an exciting trip to Moat Community college to be taught PE by some of their pupils. They all had an opportunity to play different games and improve their badminton skills. They worked together in teams to score points and had a great time taking part.
This week in PE, the children took part in an engaging gymnastics session. They worked with a variety of apparatus to try out new movements, develop their balance and strengthen their core. The activities encouraged coordination, grip skills and confident, controlled movement, and the children thoroughly enjoyed pushing themselves and celebrating their progress.
This half term in PE we have been learning about gymnastics, we have been looking at different balance and roll techniques, remembering to always finish with a full stop position. In this lesson we did a range of balance movements with 1-5 points of contact to the mat. Then we looked at our different rolls: log, rocket, forwards and backwards. Finally, we finished by testing our strength and completing a plank.
YouTube
- PE with Joe Wicks
- Cosmic kids Yoga
- Jedi writing cursive
- Jump start Jonny
- Just dance kids
- Milkshake
BBC
- Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French
- See inside your body by Colin King
- First encyclopaedia of the human body by Fiona Chandler