Implementation
The PE curriculum at The Gates has been carefully planned by the subject leader to match the National Curriculum. Knowledge, skills and vocabulary progress throughout units and across Key Stages to enable the children to build upon prior learning and to prepare them for future learning. The PE curriculum is planned across 2 cycles, A and B. In each cycle progressive aspects of the curriculum are taught, revisiting strands in order to develop and reinforce knowledge, understanding and skills and develop positive attitudes towards PE.
At the gates we will teach the children how 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. We will provide opportunities for children to participate in team games and competitive games which will be modified where appropriate [for example, rugby, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis] and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
Appropriate physical activities will be used to develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance through athletics and gymnastics. Pupils will be encouraged to compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best Children will take part in appropriate outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team. We will provide opportunities for children to enjoy modern educational dance and to perform dances using simple movement patterns. Pupils will be taught to apply and develop a broad range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. Before they leave school the children will be taught to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres using a range of strokes and how to perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.
Cross curricular links are carefully mapped out on curriculum overviews, including SMSC, Reading, Maths and Science. In PE, Reading is developed through the use of key vocabulary, when learning the rules of new sports and activities. Teachers also plan opportunities to read about sport in the English curriculum. Mathematical skills are developed through providing many opportunities for pupils to apply age appropriate knowledge and skills.
Many opportunities to highlight science related vocabulary will be embedded during PE classes (i.e. – speed, friction). counting We will identify opportunities for the practical use of experimentation vocabulary when learning about heart rate or burning calories to reinforce these important science concepts in physical education lessons. Physical Education is seen as a tool to be used as appropriate throughout the curriculum to support and enrich children's learning and well-being.
Assessment is an integral part of the planning of teaching and learning. It is used to inform future planning, set appropriately challenging targets for children and to ensure children are making good progress and attainment. Information for assessment will be gathered in various ways; observations, teacher and pupil discussion, teacher questioning, and evidence collected on Seesaw. Data is updated termly and analysed by the subject leader to ensure progression throughout the school. Teachers feed the data from the assessments made into their planning.
Visitors, extra-curricular clubs, intra-school and interschool sporting events will enable pupils to experience new sports, partake in competitive sport and learn about the world of sport. Enrichment opportunities are planned in each year to ensure that the children have the opportunity to experience new sports and work with professional coaches.