"Intelligence and skills can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong."

John F. Kennedy

Curriculum Intent

At Minster-in-Sheppey Primary School, our vision is for every child to be the best they can be – best learner, best friend, and best citizen. Our physical education curriculum supports this by playing a vital role in the development of our children’s physical and emotional development and health. We believe that through high-quality teaching and learning opportunities all of our children our inspired to succeed in physical education and in developing life skills. We also want to teach our children how to communicate, cooperate and collaborate with others as part of an effective team – demonstrating the embodiment of being a best friend. Through understanding fairness and equity of play life-long values will be embedded supporting all to become best citizens. Our curriculum also aims to improve the wellbeing and fitness of all children, not only through the fundamental skills taught, but through the underpinning values and disciplines PE promotes.

Vision and aims

Our VISION is to inspire EVERY child to be passionate about Physical Education and Sport, while bringing PE to the heart of the school.

• To equip every child with the key physical and social skills that can be facilitated through to PE and sport
• To enable every child to progress with confidence and competence in PE and sport -throughout their school journey and beyond

• To embed key sporting values that can be applied positively in everyday life.
• To inspire children to live a healthy and active lifestyle into adulthood, using PE and sports to facilitate this
• To develop the physical and mental wellbeing of every child and ensure it is central to their physical education journey

Implementation

PE at Minster-in-Sheppey provides challenging and enjoyable learning through a range of sporting activities; including invasion games, strike and field games, athletics, dance, gymnastics, dance, swimming (KS2) and outdoor and adventure.

The long-term plan sets out the PE units which are to be taught throughout the year and ensures the requirements of the National Curriculum are fully met. To achieve this, our curriculum uses schemes of learning from Primary PE Planning (PPP)

PPP Lesson Plans (short term planning):

• Children are given clear learning goals and expectations. All lesson plans have Learning Intentions with the steps to success.
• The lessons are clear for teachers to follow.
• The lessons ensure that ALL children are catered for, including the less able and most able – this is clearly highlighted for teachers within the planning.
• Many lessons include accompanying videos which model powerful demonstrations and through these the children develop a picture of what success looks like and can focus on it.
• Lesson plans provide children with the opportunity to develop their skills, build on prior knowledge & understanding and to challenge all abilities.
• The lessons allow for feedback and self/peer assessment through our progress-o-meters.
• The children are also able to develop cognitive skills such as, decision making and analysis of performance.
• The lesson plans allow for mastery of key skills.

Overview of each unit (Long term Planning):  

• With every unit of work, we have… A Scheme of Work, Progression of key skills documents, knowledge organisers, Key Vocabulary and Inclusion.
• The Scheme of work gives an overview of the learning intentions, key skills, attainments, cross-curricular links and health and safety.
• The Progression of key skills give an overview of each unit and how the skills progress from Early Years though to KS2.  These are also colour coded so you can follow the development of the skills through the year groups.
• The Knowledge organisers provide an overview of prior learning and highlight key vocabulary, terminology, rules and skills.  These are intended for the use of teachers, parents and the children.
• Progression of Key Vocabulary this shows the progression from Early Years to KS2
• Inclusion – visual support cards are provided for every lesson which can support children with a wide range of needs. 

In EYFS, PE is one of the Prime Areas of Learning and underpins the development of other skills such as reading, writing and attention. As such it is given lots of focus and is encouraged using both indoor and outdoor provision. They also have a one-hour discrete PE lesson each week, which focuses on developing particular skill using a varied range of equipment.

In KS1, children build on fundamental skills taught in EYFS and aim to master basic skill movements such as running, throwing, jumping and catching as well as beginning to develop balance, agility and coordination. Children are introduced to team games as well as individual sports. Basic tactics are introduced to children as well as competitive sports whether that be competing against other children, teams or themselves.

In KS2, children will learn how to apply all skills taught throughout their school journey in isolation. They further develop an understanding of how to improve, evaluate themselves and others and recognise their own success. There is a bigger focus in both competition against themselves and other children. Children are also provided with swimming lessons.

Our PE offer is enriched through an extensive range of clubs and participation in inter-school competitions within the local area. Each year an annual ‘Sports Week’ is held, to further promote the idea of physical activity as a life-long skill supporting both physical and mental health and wellbeing. Children also have the opportunity to try new activities during this week.

Impact

We help motivate children to participate in a variety of sports through quality teaching that is engaging and fun. From our lessons, our children learn to take responsibility for their own health and fitness, many of whom also enjoy success of competitive sports. We equip our children with the necessary skills and a love of sport. They will hopefully grow to live happy and healthy lives utilising the skills and knowledge acquired through PE.

Assessment is embedded into every lesson, this is facilitated by the Progress-o-meters, which allow for pupils to assess their own and others' progress in the lesson.  These assessments help the pupils focus on what they can do and how they can improve.

The Progress-o-meters also enable teachers to assess the pupils' progress in each lesson.  Pupils can be recorded as the following:

• Working towards
• At expected
• Above expected
• Most able

The above is also linked to the ‘steps to success’ developed as a Teaching and Learning scaffold and incorporated within every lesson framework.