PE Curriculum
St.Mary's school is committed to offering 2 hours of inclusive and active timetabled PE a week. We also have systems in place to achieve 30mins per day of physical activity (Active playtimes, daily mile, extra-curricular sports).
Most classes benefit from the expertise of specialist PE teaching from Soccer 2000, and our teachers then follow and build on the skills learnt in another PE lesson during the week. The school uses the PE online support package 'Get Set For PE'.
This scheme of work uses lesson plans and schemes of work that have been written with careful consideration of the aims of the National Curriculum, to ensure that children are given a wealth of opportunities to develop their physical skills as well as developing the whole child.
This allows our children to develop into physically literate individuals who have the choice to decide which activities they would like to continue participating in in later years. We hope this will lead to a life-long passion of being physically active.
Our School Value of enabling every child to ‘Flourish’ is embedded within our PE curriculum and we strive to give all children the opportunity to participate in a variety of inter and intra competitive sports during their school life, giving them the prospect of understanding what competition feels like, what it is like to be part of a team, and to be able to both win and lose with equal grace.
It is also important that our children 'learn to lead' and therefore we offer children the opportunity to lead activities at the school, through being house captains, Bronze Ambassadors and play leaders. Leadership gives children the understanding of what it is like to have responsibility, to show respect for rules and brings the added challenge of organisation, communication and teamwork.
As a school we are striving towards improving the delivery of the teaching and learning of PE in order to promote participation, progress and performance. Developing pupil’s personal qualities through PE can affect their attitudes towards school and learning. We recognise that PE, physical activity and school sport make an extensive contribution towards aspects of pupils’ social, moral, spiritual and cultural development.
By developing a monitoring and reviewing assessment system within PE, we are starting to measure the impact and progress of the quality and provision within our school, which will hopefully contribute to overall whole school improvement.
