Physical Education

NATIONAL CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBJECT CONTENT AT KS1

Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competition (both against self and against others) and take part in co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

Pupils are taught to:

• Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and coordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
• Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
• Perform dances using simple movement patterns

NATIONAL CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBJECT CONTENT AT KS2

Pupils should continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing. They should develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.

Pupils are taught   to:

• Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
• Play competitive games, modify where appropriate and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
• Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance
• Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
• Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
• Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.
• Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 meters
• Use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
• Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

CURRICULUM INTENT

• To ensure pupils have learned the knowledge and skills set out in the National Curriculum.
• To ensure pupils leave us with a secure knowledge of how to live healthy lives.
• To ensure our curriculum promotes resilience, co-operation and leadership.
• To ensure pupils have a confident and positive experience of PE, being active and participating in sports.
• To ensure our pupils learn to compete and strive for excellence whilst upholding the values set out in the School Games: determination, honesty, passion, self-belief, teamwork and respect.
• To ensure our provision makes purposeful links with our local community sport offers to further encourage active lifestyles and a love of sport.

CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION

PE is a foundation subject in the National Curriculum. Our school uses the objectives from the curriculum as the basis for the planning in PE. Planning is progressive and begins with basic skills which are then applied and practiced in a range of contexts and with increasing demand, competition and complexity.

In Key Stage 1, children are taught a range of sporting activities through which they will develop their balance, agility and co-ordination. These skills are taught through dance, games, multi-skills, SAQ and gymnastics lessons.

In Key stage 2, children are taught dance, games (invasion, striking and fielding, net), gymnastics, outdoor and adventurous and athletics. During KS2, all pupils receive training in sports or games leadership and take a role in promoting active playtimes. In addition, swimming and water safety is taught in Key Stage Two with the expectation that all children leave being able to confidently swim 25m and perform safe self-rescue.

All children take part in competitive sport during lessons and are encouraged to strive for the personal best in their own fitness. All children have the opportunity to take part in festivals e.g. Outdoor and Adventurous, cricket. Children of all abilities have the opportunity to play competitively against other schools within our Sports Partnership and local football links. Competitions link directly to the curriculum plan with skills and games being taught prior to competition.

TEACHING & LEARNING

We teach and promote the physical development of our children in EYFS as an integral part of their work. We relate the physical development of the children to the objectives set out in the Early Learning Goals, which underpin the curriculum planning for children aged three to five years of age. We encourage the children to develop confidence and control of the way they move, and the way they handle equipment. We give all children the opportunity to undertake activities that offer appropriate physical challenge, both indoors and outdoors, using a wide range of resources to support specific skills.

All KS1 and KS2 children (Year 3-6) receive a minimum of 2 hours of physical activity per week. We use a variety of teaching and learning styles in PE lessons.

Teacher knowledge and confidence is reviewed regularly and provision made through our coaching partnership for half-term team teaching as well as CPD opportunities. Planning and resources are stored centrally so teachers can access them for further years. Priority is given to teachers new to the school or to a year group. Some of our training is delivered by coach but only when this is upskilling for our teaching staff. All PE is taught by teachers or coaches with responsibility for teaching and learning in school.

EXTRA CURRICULAR PE OPPORTUNITIES

At Brownmead, we provide a variety of sporting opportunities during lunchtimes and at the end of the school day. These encourage children to further develop their skills in a range of activity areas. We monitor club registers to ensure our least active children are invited to clubs and to run surveys to encourage pupil voice and increased participation. These sports clubs change each term in the school year. Clubs are either free to access or a nominal holding fee is charged to secure a place. Our breakfast club includes some active time each day. All children take part in physical activity each day.

SPIRITUAL, MORAL, SOCIAL & CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

The teaching of PE offers opportunities to support the social development of our children through the way we expect them to work with each other in lessons. Pupils learn that being active has a positive effect on mental well-being and why it is important to find some time to be active each day. We teach pupils the values set out in the School Games: determination, honesty, passion, self-belief, teamwork and respect and this is reinforced through assemblies throughout the year.

We recognise our role in challenging class and gender stereotypes within sport and fitness, and we enable our pupils to experience a broad range of sports and ways to be healthy and active so that all pupils have access to quality provision and different after school clubs. We celebrate the sporting heritage of Birmingham and the wider UK by forging links with local sports clubs e.g. cricket, rugby, football, gymnastics, dance and judo by inviting them into school for taster or coaching sessions and promoting these clubs with our  families.

RIGHTS RESPECTING

As an RRS Gold Award school, we work hard to ensure that the conventions and articles of the UNICEF Rights of the child are encompassed in all that we strive to achieve at Brownmead. Through our Brownmead Values and ethos it is important that opportunities to reflect upon and learn about the rights of the child through all activities. All children have the right to:

• develop to their full potential 
• meet and join with other children
• live a full a decent life with dignity and independence and to play an active part in the community
• have the best possible health
• be educated
• develop their personality, talents and abilities to the full
• relax, play and take part in a range of cultural and artistic activities

ASSESSMENT & RECORDING

Teachers assess children’s work in PE by making informal judgements against objectives at the end of blocks of work. Concerns about pupil performance in PE may be discussed with the SENCO. Pupils showing strength and skill or who show the enjoyment of a sport are signposted to relevant local clubs when appropriate. Staff collate judgements termly. This is used to inform targeted support as necessary e.g. directing skilled coaches and teachers to support in different classes.

At the end of the year, the class teacher makes a summary judgement about the work of each pupil in relation to the skills they have developed in-line with the National Curriculum in England 2014 and these are reported to parents as part of the child’s annual school report. We use this as the basis for assessing the progress of the child and we pass this information on to the next teacher at the end of the year.

MONITORING & REVIEW

The monitoring of the standards of children’s work and of the quality of teaching through monitoring planning, lessons and pupil voice in PE is the responsibility of the PE lead and Head Teacher.

The work of the PE lead also involves supporting colleagues in the teaching of PE, being informed about current developments in the subject, and providing a strategic lead and direction for the subject in the school. Pupils and staff also have opportunities informally and more formally to make suggestions e.g. through Sports Leaders, questionnaires and in curriculum staff meeting times.

The PE leader meets termly with governors to discuss budget and development priorities and reports to the full governing body as part of the Head Teacher’s report to governors termly.