PE

Physical Education 

 

Welcome to our Physical Education page 

PE is instrumental in promoting health and wellbeing in young children. At St Matthew’s Primary School, we believe that PE should promote development of key skills and participation in a variety of games, activities and sports. At our school, PE is used to give children an opportunity to work as a team, develop leadership skills and foster an enthusiasm for sport. We provide a safe and supportive environment for children to flourish in a range of different physical activities and encourage their physical, emotional, social and moral development. Competitions are used across school which allow children to compete individually and as part of a team, allowing the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills. No child is left behind and all children are involved in competitive competition, giving them the opportunity to develop their skills and showcase their talents.

At St Matthew’s all staff follow the Key PE Sports Scheme. Key PE provide a high-quality scheme of work in line with the PE National Curriculum. The scheme provides teachers with lessons that are progressive, challenging and planned but also give teachers the opportunity to be creative. The scheme provides children with the essential development of agility, balance and co-ordination, inclusive healthy competition and co-operative learning by using fun and engaging games that build up a range of transferable skills. These can be used in a variety of sports and encourages creativity, cooperation and teamwork. Basic skills such as running, jumping and throwing, cooperative and collaborative learning are all covered throughout the scheme.  Challenge is encouraged through group and individual challenges.

Through the Key PE Sports Scheme our aims in the teaching of PE are:

• Foster a love for and enjoyment of being active.
• Develop ‘fitness for life’ through promoting the health benefits of regular exercise.
• To develop an understanding in children of how to succeed in a range of physical activities, and how to evaluate their own success.
• Identify talents.
• Develop self-esteem, confidence and social skills.
• Contribute to the physical development of every child.
• Give children a way of expressing themselves and an opportunity to be creative.
• Develop a range of skills that can be applied in other contexts.

What will we learn?

EYFS

We encourage the physical development of our children in the Early Years as an integral part of their work. As the Nursery and Reception class is part of the Foundation Stage of the National Curriculum, we relate the physical development of the children to the objectives set out in the Early Learning Goals, which underpin the curriculum planning for children aged three to five years of age. We encourage the children to develop confidence, control of the way they move, and care in the handling of tools and equipment. We give all children the opportunity to undertake activities that offer appropriate physical challenge, both indoors and outdoors, using a wide range of resources to support specific skills. We prioritise the learning of fundamental movement skills as we know they are essential for students to be competent in accessing our ambitious PE curriculum.

Curriculum overview for EYFS

 

Key Stages 1

Key stage 1 Pupils will develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

Pupils will be taught to:

• Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities.
•  Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending.
•  Perform dances using simple movement patterns.

Curriculum overview for Year 1

Curriculum overview for Year 2

 

KS2

Pupils will apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They will develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.

Pupils should be taught to:

• Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination.
•  Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounder’s and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
• Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance [for example, through athletics and gymnastics].
• Perform dances using a range of movement patterns.
• Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team.
• Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

 

Curriculum overview for Year 3

 

 

 

 

Curriculum overview for Year 4

Curriculum overview for Year 5

Curriculum overview for Year 6

If you would like any further information please contact the school office.

See below for our Physical Education Policy.

PE Policy