P.E.
At Flanderwell, our children will experience a range of high quality Physical Education and physical activity that we hope will inspire and excite them throughout their primary education and their journey through life. We aim to shape our children into healthy, social and active young people through PE sessions, after school clubs and structured ‘active’ lunchtimes.
Our Curriculum
We follow imoves, which sets out the aims and programmes of study for PE, ensuring that our curriculum coverage is consistent across year groups and key stages, whilst also ensuring that disciplinary knowledge is built upon each year. The purpose of this, is to ensure that all teachers are able to support pupils in developing their own knowledge and understanding about PE, resulting in them being able to make appropriate links to learning within the community and throughout their lives.
Aims
Our aims are to ensure that all pupils:
- Can participate competently in a broad range of physical activities.
- Are physically active for substantial periods of time.
- Can engage in competitive sports and activities.
- Are able to lead healthy and active lifestyles.
Knowledge
In order to achieve the above aims, children will be taught a range of disciplinary knowledge:
- To develop flexibility, strength, control and balance.
- To perform dances using a range of movements.
- To master movements including, running, jumping, throwing and catching.
- To play competitive games and apply basic understanding of attacking and defending.
- To participate in outdoor adventurous activities, whilst working as a team.
- To compare performances and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.
- To swim at least 25m, confidently and competently.
- To use a range of swimming strokes effectively.
- To perform safe self-rescue in water.
Examples of Our PE Curriculum Documentation
IMoves-PE-Tier-2-and-3-Vocabulary-Progression.pdf
Child-friendly assessment documents have been created for PE, where the most important knowledge has been broken down. This is so children can see what they need to learn by the end of each term and by the end of the year. See below for some PE child-friendly assessment examples.
To support children with their learning in PE, Pupil Guides have been created for each year group and each unit of work. These are there to support children with remembering what they need to know for each unit. See below for some examples.
Sporting Partnerships
We value the qualities others can bring to Physical Education within our school, therefore; we have strong partnerships with outside agencies and believe this creates further sporting opportunities for our children. We are working in partnership with Rotherham United Community Sports Trust and Rotherham Games. This gives the opportunity for children to be involved in a variety of sporting events, competitions and tournaments, both in and out of school.
Keeping Fit at Home
Healthy minds and lifestyles of the children are of extreme importance to us as a school. It is advised that primary aged children participate in physical activity for at least 60 minutes a day. Below are a range of websites and activities which provide ideas and challenges for children in order for them to stay active both indoors and outdoors when they are at home.
https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/activities