St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School
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PE Intent/implementation
Our intent
Here at St. Mary’s Primary school we are committed to providing all children with a range of learning opportunities to engage in Physical Education, School Sports and Physical Activity (PESSPA). We promote and encourage active and healthy lifestyles through high quality teaching of physical skills, physical development and knowledge of the body in action. Physical Education builds confidence, perseverance, team spirit, positive competitiveness and organisation. We deliver a programme of PE that builds fitness, improves strength and teaches children the rules of games. Each PE lesson allows all children to gain a sense of achievement and develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Our teaching of PE Is always with our Trust Values in mind, i.e. Resilience, Compassion, Honesty, Self-belief, Responsibility, Justice, Respect and importantly Confidence. Our PESSPA programme is for everybody.
Physical education is seen as a key driver in developing healthy lifestyles for all of our children at St. Mary’s. A broad and wide-ranging curriculum is taught by all teaching staff and is complemented by our Sports Partnership with Sedgefield, Go-Well. This provides us with access to a variety of activities ranging from bespoke coaching for year groups to introductory sessions on sports that the children may not have had access to in the past, such as taster sessions on disability sports, escape rooms, etc. Our Sports Premium funding has enabled us to invest in promoting the children’s resilience by supporting Outdoor and Adventurous Activities, whilst also nurturing initiatives such as ‘Team up Kids’ promoting their mindfulness and wellbeing.
Children are inspired to achieve through both non-competitive and competitive activities – we attend a number of external events and competitions, again funded through Sports Premium. Children are guided to improve their personal best but whilst competitive sport is an important part of our provision, we also recognise the need to be inclusive and ensure our provision is for everyone.
Through a range of after school clubs we constantly strive to increase engagement for all pupils including those with SEND and other targeted groups. Year 6 children are playground buddies to younger children and are skilled up to lead multi-skills activities, whilst three are sports captains who work with staff and other pupils to ensure a pupil voice in sports and physical activity provision.
PE National Curriculum Subject Content
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 (e.g. 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. S
Swimming and Water Safety
All schools must provide swimming instruction either in Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2. In particular, pupils should be taught to:
- Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres,
- Use a range of strokes effectively (for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke),
- Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.
PE Curriculum 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.
The curriculum aims to ensure that children develop a love of PE through the delivery of high-quality PE lessons. PE is an active lesson and can positively impact on children’s health, having the ability to inspire all children, encourage communication and break down language barriers.
What PE looks like in St Mary’s
Physical education in St Mary’s provides challenging and enjoyable learning through a range of sporting activities. These include games (invasion, net and wall), striking and fielding, athletics, gymnastics, dance and swimming. Class curriculum maps show which units are taught in the year, as does the annual PE plan, ensuring National Curriculum requirements are fully met. Pupils receive a minimum of one quality PE lesson per week, supplemented by a further year group who swim weekly, a range of inclusive after school sports clubs, a variety of competitive sporting events and also a range of festivals, including Dance for Year 1, Move with Max for younger children and a swimming gala for older children. Schoo, Sports Day is an opportunity for the whole school and wider community to come together, offering boys and girls equal opportunity to compete. We do not limit participation.
Sports activities are selected and planned to ensure that children can progress their skills and develop through their journey at St Mary’s. Fine Motor Skills taught in EYFS/KS1 are utilised and built upon in key stage 2, allowing the children to recall their previously taught skills and build on them. For example, net and wall skills in lower key stage 2 build on earlier skills, which can then progress to tennis, tag rugby, cricket, etc. In upper key stage 2.
Teaching staff follow core tasks which include PESSCL strategy tasks. Pupils complete an initial core task, leading teachers to quickly assess skills and areas for development. Visual aids are used to aid vocabulary.
Continuous Professional Development
CPD opportunities are made available to staff. Sports Premium funding also enables the school to attract highly skilled coaches into school to provide high quality teaching, complementing our existing teaching but also importantly upskilling staff making the funding sustainable. The school’s PE coordinator attends termly CPD and provides CPD training in turn to school staff.
Assessment
Ongoing formative assessment is an integral part of each lesson. Summative assessment takes please at the end of each core task. Swimming data is published annually, with parents informed of their child's progression through annual reports. Impact is documented annually through the Sports Premium Impact proforma.
PE Documents