Phyiscal Education

The PE curriculum encourages confidence, skill development, and a love of sport. Pupils build teamwork, resilience, and a wide sporting vocabulary through high-quality teaching, enrichment opportunities, and participation in clubs and competitions. All children are supported to make strong progress, enjoy physical activity, and be positioned to access opportunities in sport and healthy living throughout their lives.

 

 

 

PE Whole School Overview

Intent

  • All pupils will make strong progress in PE, developing physical confidence, skill, and understanding.

  • Pupils will engage in a broad range of activities, competitions, and events, building enjoyment, teamwork, and resilience.

  • The curriculum is designed to give disadvantaged pupils advantages, address gaps, and ensure all children “Grow in Greatness.”

  • Pupils will develop communication and technical vocabulary and be confident in discussing and applying skills in different sports.

  • Opportunities for enrichment, such as clubs, festivals, residentials, and guest coaches, deepen pupils’ understanding and enjoyment of PE.

Implementation

  • Lessons follow clear success criteria, modelling, effective questioning, and structured feedback, promoting rigour and engagement.
  • Pupils are taught subject-specific vocabulary, key skills, and knowledge, with opportunities to revisit and embed learning over time.
  • Formative and summative assessment ensures pupils know more, remember more, and misconceptions are addressed promptly.
  • Pupils engage in cross-curricular links, home learning, and extra-curricular activities to consolidate and extend their skills.
  • High-quality resources, local club partnerships, and expert visitors support practical skill development and contextual understanding of PE.

Impact

  • Pupils make strong progress, master skills, and develop a love of physical activity.
  • All pupils can recall, discuss, and apply the skills they learn, showing confidence across a range of sports.
  • Increasing numbers of pupils meet or exceed expectations, with quality teaching and assessment ensuring success for all groups.
  • Pupils understand the significance of notable figures and events in sporting history and appreciate their impact.
  • PE develops personal skills such as teamwork, resilience, communication, and respect for diversity.

Intent

  • All pupils will make strong progress in PE, developing physical confidence, skill, and understanding.

  • Pupils will engage in a broad range of activities, competitions, and events, building enjoyment, teamwork, and resilience.

  • The curriculum is designed to give disadvantaged pupils advantages, address gaps, and ensure all children “Grow in Greatness.”

  • Pupils will develop communication and technical vocabulary and be confident in discussing and applying skills in different sports.

  • Opportunities for enrichment, such as clubs, festivals, residentials, and guest coaches, deepen pupils’ understanding and enjoyment of PE.

Implementation

  • Lessons follow clear success criteria, modelling, effective questioning, and structured feedback, promoting rigour and engagement.
  • Pupils are taught subject-specific vocabulary, key skills, and knowledge, with opportunities to revisit and embed learning over time.
  • Formative and summative assessment ensures pupils know more, remember more, and misconceptions are addressed promptly.
  • Pupils engage in cross-curricular links, home learning, and extra-curricular activities to consolidate and extend their skills.
  • High-quality resources, local club partnerships, and expert visitors support practical skill development and contextual understanding of PE.

Impact

  • Pupils make strong progress, master skills, and develop a love of physical activity.
  • All pupils can recall, discuss, and apply the skills they learn, showing confidence across a range of sports.
  • Increasing numbers of pupils meet or exceed expectations, with quality teaching and assessment ensuring success for all groups.
  • Pupils understand the significance of notable figures and events in sporting history and appreciate their impact.
  • PE develops personal skills such as teamwork, resilience, communication, and respect for diversity.