St Andrew’s CE Methodist Aided Primary School
Statement of Intent
PE
Purpose of Study
A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to lead a happy and healthy life. The curriculum will promote a healthy mind, healthy body and healthy lifestyle. Our PE curriculum will teach children skills that give a great foundation for later life. Children will learn vital skills and values throughout their PE lessons.
Vision Statement: To provide opportunities for all out children to engage in Physical Education that promotes a healthy mind, healthy body and a healthy lifestyle. To teach children the fundamental skills and values that they will use and need in later life.
At Our School:
The St. Andrew’s Sportsperson develops physical competence and confidence, and their ability to use these to perform in a range of activities. Their fundamental skills, personal skills and physical development are improved yearly throughout the different games and activities played. St Andrew’s sportsperson have the opportunity to be creative, competitive and face up to different challenges as individuals, such as beating their personal best, in groups and in larger teams. Pupils can think in different ways to suit a wide variety of creative, competitive and challenging activities. They can plan, perform and evaluate actions, ideas and performances to improve their quality and effectiveness. They understand the link between physical and mental health and aspire to live an active, healthy life.
St. Andrew’s Curriculum Rationale
- Fundamental skills and REAL PE skills accessed, revisited and embedded within and across year groups and key stages to ensure cumulative fluency engaging, challenging and inclusive activities for all children.
- Developing pupils’ character and encourage resilience and growth mindset. To promote the school games values (trust, honesty, respect, self-belief, determination, passion and teamwork).
- Development in all aspects of physical education encourages an active, healthy lifestyle and promotes both physical and mental well-being.
Ensuring all children are constantly trying to beat their personal best.
At St Andrew's we know that Physical Education is an integral part of the curriculum. We strongly believe that Physical Education promotes a healthy mind, healthy body and a healthy lifestyle.
We believe that PE can teach the children skills that give a great foundation for later life. Children learn vital skills such as communication, teamwork, honesty, resilience, perseverance, dedication, problem solving, listening, patience and many more.
Our aim is for children to lead and enjoy an active and healthy lifestyle. We want them to enjoy exercise and sport as well as seeing the importance of living a healthy and active lifestyle.
Vision Statement: To provide opportunities for our children to engage in Physical Education that promotes a healthy mind, healthy body and a healthy lifestyle. To teach children the fundamental skills and values that they will use and need in later life.
Our PE Curriculum
Please click here for our KS1 and KS2 curriculum coverage.
Our curriculum teaches the children the fundamental skills through games and activities planned by their class teacher according to the children’s needs. Our children are encourage to use a wide variety of objects and equipment of different sizes, textures and shapes. Children are taught these fundamental skills that the children can use and apply in traditional and non-traditional games.
What are Fundamental Movement Skills?
Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) are movement patterns that involve different body parts such as the legs, arms, trunk and head, and include such skills as running, hopping, catching, throwing, striking and balancing. They are the foundation movements or precursor patterns to the more specialised, complex skills used in play, games, sports, dance, gymnastics, outdoor education and physical recreation activities.
At St Andrew's some year groups use REAL PE to support the teaching of the fundamental skills.
What is Real PE?
Real PE provides fun and simple to follow Schemes of Work and support for practitioners to give them the confidence and skills to deliver outstanding PE.
It is fully aligned to the National Curriculum and Ofsted requirements and focuses on the development of agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning through a unique and market leading approach to teaching and learning in PE.
Real PE is a unique, child-centred approach. It transforms how we teach PE to engage and challenge EVERY child in primary school.
Our PE values
At St Andrews, when teaching PE, we also teach the children about the six school games values and promote them within our lessons. On Sports day they are also at the heart of our event. We don’t just celebrate the winners of the races, we also celebrate and reward children who demonstrate these six values throughout the day. The children are given points when showing these values which are then added to their house points. This encourages children that winning is not the most important thing.
