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.
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.
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
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.
Year 1 - In Class Learning- 2024-25
1FN enjoyed a walk to Moat Community College today to take part in a multi sports activity. The children took part in different sports games amongst other schools and had a great time!
Year 1 have been learning different ways of balancing and performing rolls.
Year 2 - In Class Learning- 2024-25
On Friday 7th March, 2ME visited MOAT to learn about basketball. First, they did some running to warm their bodies up followed by some stretching. They were then taught how to bounce pass the ball to their friends. Finally, they took part in trying to shoot their balls into the hoops to score points.
Today we visited Moat Community College for multi skills. We worked in groups to play badminton and learned the skills needed to play such as holding the racket, placing the shuttle in the right place and the different ways we need to move.
2RX really enjoyed visiting Moat and participating in basketball. They practiced team work and communication skills.
2SM were lucky enough to participate in a bean bag festival at Moat Community College.
In Autumn Term 1, year 2 have been learning new skills through games. They have been learning these skills whilst playing “Tom and Jerry” and “team tag”.
The children have covered galloping, jogging, marching, skipping, zigzag and hopping.
2SM had a fabulous day at Moat Community College learning how to play basketball.
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