Physical Education
Intent
Physical Education promotes an understanding in children of their bodies in action. It involves thinking, selecting and applying skills and promotes positive attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, we enable the children to make informed choices about physical activity throughout their lives.
Implementation
Physical Education develops pupils’ knowledge, skills and understanding so they can perform with increasing competence and confidence in a range of physical activities.
Each child receives two sessions of curriculum time PE on a weekly basis which is carefully planned and mapped out to ensure a broad and full range of skills and activities. These sessions are either delivered by specialist coaches or class teachers during PE lessons. The sports on offer include traditional physical Education activities, such as dance, gymnastics, invasion games, swimming and water safety, athletics and outdoor adventure activities.
Planning for each activity is progressive and is based around National Curriculum objectives and ongoing assessments in order to build upon prior learning of the children. We provide suitable learning opportunities for all children by matching the challenge of task to the abilities of the child. We achieve this through a range of strategies:
- Setting tasks of increasing difficulty where children can achieve personal bests.
- Setting common tasks that are open-ended and can have a variety of outcomes.
- Providing a range of challenge through the provision of different resources.
- Providing additional lessons that target different groups of learners such as children who are least active and children who may benefit from FunFit sessions.
- Providing extra opportunities for children to learn how to swim.
Impact
Pupils at Linby cum Papplewick C of E Primary School will be able to show what physical skills are required to play across a range of activities, explain why these skills are important and when they can be applied, as well as displaying the key values to engage successfully with others in competitive and collaborative games. They will also understand the additional benefits that PE and Sport provide including health and wellbeing. Pupils will be able to deploy the skills learnt to all other aspects of school life from lessons to after school clubs. They will develop socially and emotionally and understand the importance of these alongside that of physical competence. Through this approach we aim for pupils to create a positive relationship with Physical Education, developing an excitement, joy and deep competence in every sense of the word. All of these will combine enabling them to become well-rounded and confident individuals with a broad range of transferable skills allowing them to be successful in their future lives.
PE and Sports Gallery
Potted Sports Day
To celebrate all things sports, we held our annual potted sports day in the summer term. Children were grouped into teams consisting of Reception – Year 6 children. Each team was led by Year 6 pupils and they had to work together to score as many points as they could on each station.
This year, Potted Sports Day was Olympic themed. Each team spent the morning finding out about their team’s country. In the afternoon, the teams represented their country competing in various activities. Congratulations to Team Ghana who triumphed on the day.
A big well done to all the children who took part. There was lots of teamwork and encouragement shown throughout the day.
