Intent
P.E is the development of knowledge, skills and understanding of physical activity through a continuous process of planning, practise, exploring, performing and evaluating.
At Far Forest children are provided with opportunities and encouraged to:
- Engage in lifelong physical activity, as a participant and in roles such as leader, coach and official
- Lead a healthy and active lifestyle, knowing how to be healthy and what it means to be healthy
- Cooperate and collaborate with others, as part of a team, understanding fairness and equity of play to embed life-long values
- Appreciate the efforts of others, as well as their own
- Develop confidence and competence in performing different skills
- Be physically active for sustained periods of time
Motor Competence
Rules, Strategies and Tactics
Healthy Participation
Implementation
We use a variety of teaching and learning styles in PE lessons. Our aims are to encourage children to engage in lifelong physical activity, lead healthy lifestyles, collaborate with others and develop knowledge, skills and understanding. We do this through a mixture of whole class teaching and individual/group activities. Teachers/coaches draw attention to good examples of individual performance as models for the other children and we encourage the children to evaluate their own work as well as the work of other children. Within lessons we give the children the opportunity both to collaborate and to compete with each other, and they have the opportunity to use a wide range of resources. Our PE lessons in EYFS & KS1 focus on building fundamental motor competence skills. From this secure base, children progress onto using and applying skills in a range of competitive sports in KS2, including implementing rules, strategies and tactics.
Teachers assess children’s learning in PE as they observe them during lessons. They record the progress made by children against the learning objectives for their lessons. At the end of a unit of work, teachers make a judgement as to whether the child has met, exceeded or is working towards the expectations of each individual unit. These records also enable the teacher to make an annual assessment of progress for each child, as part of the child’s annual report to parents.
Each term has a specific focus for PE (e.g. Games, Gymnastics), which is followed by every class within the school. The focus is linked to the national curriculum. In all classes there are children of differing physical ability. Whilst recognising this fact, we provide suitable learning opportunities for all children by matching the challenge of the task to the ability of the child. We achieve this through a range of strategies:
- Space-where the activity is happening. For example, the space could be modified by increasing or decreasing the area in which the task is performed.
- Task- What is happening? For example, the task could be modified by changing the demands, the rules of the activity, the number of times the child is to repeat the task, teaching cues, direction/level/pathway of movement or length of time to complete the task.
- Equipment- what is being used? For example, change the size of the equipment, amount of equipment or the arrangement of the equipment.
- People- who is involved? For example, working alone with a partner, bigger teams and smaller teams.
After school sports activities are delivered and are linked to pupils’ interests. There is a commitment to actively encourage some of our most vulnerable children to take part in clubs; these pupils having priority for places.
We track participation and attendance of these clubs throughout children's’ time at school. Our children take pride in representing our school in various external competitions which are often linked to our club offer – football, tag rugby and athletics competitions.
Progression and Skills
At Far Forest we plan our curriculum across four main milestones: Early Years, KS1, Lower KS2 and Upper KS2. We outline the knowledge, skills, and vocabulary to be taught across each phase.
Our curriculum covers:
- Fundamental Movement Skills
- Invasion Games
- Gymnastics
- Dance
- Outdoor Adventure Activities
- Net and Wall
- Striking and Fielding
- Athletics
- Swimming