Intent:
We aim to inspire all children to have a lifelong love of sport and physical activity. Children are taught to appreciate the importance of a healthy and fit body and begin to understand factors which affect health and fitness. We are dedicated to ensuring healthy minds, as well as bodies and will continue to support our children’s well-being.
It is our intention to provide a broad and balanced PE curriculum to aid and increase children’s self-confidence in relation to their ability to manage themselves and their bodies. Through this good physical education, whole school values and a whole child approach, we aim to nurture confident, resilient children who will strive for their personal best.
We aim to continue strong links with local clubs and partnerships within our community to ensure children and families have the support that is needed. We will celebrate successes in sport and healthy lifestyles at all levels.
We want all children to take part in physical education lessons which allow them to have the skills and mindset to leave primary school with the capabilities to be successful in their sporting challenges and active lifestyles at secondary school and beyond.
Implementation:
At Forest View, a scheme of work will be used to ensure good coverage of skills, activities and experiences are managed across all key stages from Nursery to Year 6. The lessons taught progress the skills and knowledge that the children have gained previously. To give a wide variety of experiences the activities and games used to teach these skills may vary year on year but always hold fundamental skills at their heart.
All children receive a minimum of a one hour physical education lesson per week. On top of this all staff are encouraged to teach in an active way and use physical movement in as many lessons as possible. All children get a ‘movement break’ on an afternoon, which is 15mins of focused movement such as skipping, running etc. We understand the benefits of movement to the brain and body and encourage a whole school ethos of being physically active.
To monitor the effectiveness of our PE curriculum we assess children at the end of each block of learning. This is to provide us with a good understanding of the skills learnt and to provide an insight into the next steps for our pupils. Teachers look back on previous assessments and ensure those skills are built on in the future teaching. It also allows us to identify any gaps in a child’s learning and the opportunity to build into our lessons ways to fill those gaps.
The pupil’s voice is important to help us understand the children’s knowledge and how we can develop this further. This is especially true of our SEND children and ensuring their voices are heard means we can understand any barriers they may face and how to overcome them. Children are given their voice through assessments in lessons and through pupil voice interviews. We also have a ‘School Sports Organising Crew’ This consists of four of our key stage 2 pupils who have been trained in promoting physical activity in our school. They represent the voices of the school and feed back comments, ideas and queries to the coordinator who is able to action them appropriately.
Impact:
As a result of our aims we hope that our children are physically active and have a lifelong love of exercise. They will understand the reasons why we keep active and the benefits to our mind as well as our body. They will have high aspirations for themselves and will be confident and resilient learners.
Pupils are given a lot of opportunities to engage in physical activities both in and out of school. We encourage children who wouldn’t normally take part to join our after school clubs. This has been achieved by offering a wide variety of games and activities. The uptake of classes is relatively good and we have managed to ‘hook’ some of our identified children. These activities will continue next year and we will focus greatly on our less active children.
Children have reported enjoying physical education lessons more now since the introduction of the new scheme. They enjoy the opportunity to practice their fundamental skills through games. This has also given them the opportunity to become competitive and challenge their teamwork, resilience and self-regulation skills. Pupils are keen to do more of this next year.
Pupils have a good understanding of how to keep their bodies and minds healthy and can relate this back to their PE lessons. They are generally more active across the school day and this will help to impact their ability to engage, learn and retain information.
