PE is learning about sports and movement to promote health and physical fitness.

"I love everything about PE at St Ann’s Heath. The variety of topics changes regularly and we get to play matches," - Year 6

At St Ann’s Heath, we believe Physical Education should give all of our children the tools and understanding required to make a positive impact in their own physical health and well-being. We want all of our children to experience a wide variety of sports and physical skills which will enhance life-long fitness and life choices. Our PE curriculum challenges and promotes self-esteem through the development of physical confidence and problem solving while also teaching our children to cope with both success and failure in competitive, individual and team based physical activities.  

Intent

The intent of St Ann’s Heath Physical Education curriculum is to inspire all children to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. Physical Education will provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities will be offered to all children in order to build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect. Through Physical Education, we aim to develop children’s knowledge, skills and understanding, so that they can perform with increasing confidence and competence in a range of physical activities. We aim to improve health and well-being, promote active participation and lifelong learning, and for each child to fulfil their potential. We aim to ensure that the children’s experience of Physical Education is positive and motivating and that children’s attitudes to a healthy lifestyle are firmly embedded in our curriculum.

We teach lessons so that children:

• Have fun and experience success in sport
• Have the opportunity to participate in P.E at their own level of development
• Secure and build on a range of skills
• Develop good sporting attitudes
• Understand basic rules
• Experience positive competition
• Learn in a safe environment

At St Ann’s Heath, we value the importance of physical literacy, so that children have the right support and opportunities, which will lead the child, teenager, and then adult, to making and wanting to make good decisions about their health and own physical wellbeing.  It will lead to an active life and choosing to be active for internal reasons.

The theory is that by blending different areas, such as the physical competence of a skill set, the confidence to want to use it, the motivation to want to use it, the knowledge of the activity, rules, tactics, how to be healthy, and the understanding of when and how to use it, we begin to develop a value and a love for being physically active throughout our lives. This is not only delivered in PE lessons but also in PSHE lessons, wellbeing opportunities such as check ins, check ups and check outs. We also promote physical activity for our families by posting an active calendar with ideas on our website and initiatives such as the Path to Paris.

Implementation

Each child receives 2 hours of PE curriculum time on a weekly basis which is carefully planned and mapped out to ensure a broad and full range of skills and activities.  We use the Get Set 4 PE scheme to guarantee that lessons are progressive and planned systematically to engage children while building and enhancing knowledge and skills. These sessions are delivered to whole mixed ability classes.

Lessons begin with children being introduced to the learning objective and success criteria. After this, the children will partake in a warm-up, including movement and stretches. Following this, the children begin their learning and have time to practise and develop the skill being taught. Finally, the lesson ends with a plenary to consolidate learning by asking children to recall teaching and learning points.

Children in Years 5 and 6 attend swimming lessons at the Egham Orbit swimming pool where they are taught to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of 25m using a range of strokes. In addition to PE in curriculum time, we also strive to provide opportunities for children to access extracurricular physical activity through a wide range of sporting and active clubs.

PE is also embedded further throughout the school day. For example: brain breaks, daily mile, Path 2 Paris, utilising the children’s language development and allowing for further opportunities to develop language skills across the whole curriculum.

A range of extra-curricular clubs are on offer for children, and they are also given opportunities to compete in inter-school competitions and leagues. 

Active playtimes are also encouraged. We have a trained group of Year 6 Sports Leaders who run activities to promote engagement and enjoyment in physical activity.

Impact

The impact of our PE curriculum is assessed through the following methods:

• Analysis of planning overviews
• Learning walks
• Pupil voice
• Analysis of data

These methods reveal the following:

• Analysis of planning overviews reveal that all children receive a broad and balanced PE curriculum regardless of year group or ability. Every child will access all of the key areas of the subject on offer at our school.
• Learning walks reveal that teachers plan PE with clear progression of skills and knowledge that we have devised as part of our curriculum offer to ensure that all children access it at an age-appropriate level. Children are engaged and show enthusiasm and enjoyment in the lessons.
• Pupil voice reveals that children feel that there are plenty of opportunities to engage in physical activity and sports, they have a healthy attitude towards their learning and generally enjoy this subject.
• Analysis of data reveals that a high number of children are ‘working within’ or ‘working beyond’ at the end of a unit of work.

Encouraging active families