PE information

Intent

At St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School, we teach high quality physical education to inspire all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physical activities. We understand that PE provides opportunities for pupils to become physically, socially, cognitively and emotionally confident in a way that supports their health and fitness. We recognise that physical education plays a role in promoting a healthy, balanced lifestyle, establishing healthy habits and choices for our children that they can take with them into the future. PE at St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School adheres to the National Curriculum framework and aims to provide continuity of learning experience by building on and embedding physical development and skills learned in key stages 1 and 2 through a broad, balanced and progressive curriculum.

Pupils are encouraged to analyse their work and understand what makes a sports performance effective and apply these principles to maximise progress and experience success and joy in PE. Staff at school have a willingness to adapt plans to meet the needs of individual pupils and groups, including revisiting plans programmed for younger groups to secure knowledge and skills. Throughout KS1 and KS2, we want our children to learn skills and knowledge and be able to transfer these into different game situations. By the end of KS2, we want our children to have had the opportunity to complete in sports and other activities competitively and for fun to build character and help embed values of fairness, resilience, teamwork, honest, determination, self-belief, respect and passion – we want to develop sports people who equipped for physical education in KS3 and beyond.

GETSet4PE programme offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency, progression, success and joy. The intent is that all content will be continuously updated and reviewed annually, creating a dynamic programme of study that will be clearly outlined in both long-term and short-term planning. This will ensure that the knowledge of our pupils progresses within each academic year and is extended year upon year throughout the primary phase and, in so doing, will always be relevant and in line with meeting or exceeding national DfE requirements. 

Implementation

At St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School, every class follows the PE GETSET4PE Scheme of work and through this curriculum, we cover the National Curriculum guidance for PE. All pupils receive 1 hour of high-quality Physical Education once a week. Our curriculum is designed so that each lesson builds upon skills, knowledge and vocabulary with teachers routinely modelling tasks and using questioning techniques to develop pupils understanding. The specific aim is to improve the quality and range of skills across a variety of activities in order to support children in develop a lifelong interest in physical activity.

Our EYFS PE curriculum introduces children to Physical education and develops fundamental skills, ball skills and games. In EYFS, children are given a wide range of opportunities to develop core strength, agility, stability, co-ordination and spatial awareness.  Our KS1 PE curriculum builds directly upon the skills and knowledge children have gained during their time in EYFS. Pupils are provided with the opportunity to continue developing their fundamental movement skills as we recognise the important of agility, balance and coordination when transferring skills into a range of sports. The KS1 curriculum covers a broad range of sports including fundamental skills, gymnastics, dance, net and wall, striking and fielding and athletics.

In KS2, pupils continue to apply and develop a broader range of technical skills within the areas of striking and fielding, net and wall, athletics, dance and gymnastics. They begin to take part in competitive games including football, athletics, cricket, netball, hockey as well as less well-known activities such as tag rugby and cricket. The skills needed for these sports are developed progressively from Year 3 to Year 6. As children get older, we encourage them to start understanding tactics and how to work as a team.

Our Curriculum map progresses like this to ensure children are secure in basic skills before applying them to specific games as skills are transferable.

Activities will be planned according to the different levels of children’s skills and previous knowledge. A range of teaching strategies and learning styles will be used in delivering this Scheme of work. GETSET4PE offers support for children with SEND to ensure all children progress.

Children are assessed each half-term by electronically grading children at WTS, EXP or EXC. If a pupil has not achieved an objective, this is to be followed up at some point throughout the year.

We try to expose children to as many different sports so that they can find something they enjoy through an annual health and fitness week and attending GLL’s sports activity day. Each half-term, we involve external agencies in our PE lessons to expose children to a range of sports and to provide CPD for staff.

Impact

As children move through primary school, teaching units increase in level of challenge and stretch as pupils move through each year group. Units in each subsequent level of the teaching type categories require more knowledge and application of skills than the previous teaching. 

Pupils will continuously build on their previous knowledge as they progress in their PE learning journey through the primary phase. Previous knowledge will be recycled, revised, recalled and consolidated whenever possible and appropriate.

Teachers will have a clear overview of what they are working towards and if they are meeting these criteria. They will use the long-term planning documents provided in the form of GETSET4PE curriculum map to ensure the correct units are being taught to the correct classes at each stage of the scholastic year. Short-term planning is also provided in the form of unit overviews (covering the learning targets for each unit) and individual lesson plans laying out the learning aims and intentions of each individual lesson within a unit. These planning documents ensure that teachers know what to teach and how to teach it in each lesson, across whole units and across each scholastic term.

Pupils will be aware of their own learning goals and progression as each unit offers a pupil friendly self-assessment so that all pupils can review their own learning at the end of each unit. They will know and will be able to articulate if they have or have not met their learning objectives.

The opportunity to assess pupil learning and progression against the National Curriculum PE learning objectives for EYFS and Years 1-6 attainment targets is provided at the end of each teaching unit. This information will be recorded and will be monitored by the PE Subject Leader who can use this data to ensure teaching is targeted and appropriate for each pupil, class and year group as well as to feedback on progress to SLT and stakeholders. Teachers will be able to record, analyse and access this data easily using the Tracking and Progression Sheet that will monitor school, class and individual progress.

Children are expected to make good or better than good progress in their PE learning and their individual progress is tracked and reported to pupils and parents / carers in line with school recommendations.

If pupils are not progressing in line with expectations, this will be identified in the End of Unit Assessments provided in the GETSET4PE Scheme of work. This will enable teachers to put in place an early intervention programme to address any areas that require attention in any of the PE learning skills.