PE
Intent
The Rosary Catholic Primary School, is a culturally diverse and multilingual community, founded in the teachings of Christ. We, at The Rosary, believe that physical education has a positive influence on academic achievement, emotional stability and interactions with others. It improves health, reduces stress and improves concentration. As such, our curriculum is committed to fostering a spiritual, thriving community in which each child feels valued and able to succeed, and in which each child is encouraged and equipped to fulfil their potential, to:
Aspire, Believe, Achieve: Together in Christ.
We empower pupils with the background, skills and motivation to opt into physical education as a lifestyle habit, both within the school and the wider community by embracing the Catholic Christian values of it. Thorough our rich and diverse physical education curriculum, we believe that our pupils become responsible 21st century world citizens of conscience and compassion: resilient, independent and self-motivated.
Through sport and physical education, our pupils develop physical competence and confidence to perform in a range of activities. It promotes skilfulness, physical development and knowledge of the body in action. Physical education provides opportunities for them to be creative, competitive, co-operative and face up to different challenges as individuals, in groups and in teams.
Our curriculum sets positive attitudes toward healthy and active lifestyles. Pupils learn how to plan, perform and evaluate actions. They develop ideas and performances to improve their abilities and talents and make choices about how they engage in physical activity as we believe that it is a lifelong journey.
Although our curriculum adheres to the requirements of the National Curriculum, it encompasses the needs of our children and community and provides opportunities to experience the cultural capital needs of it through a range of different forms. Our pupils are encouraged to ask questions and formulate opinions; in this way, a curiosity for discovery and a passion for lifelong learning, will remain.
By the time children leave The Rosary Catholic Primary School, they will have mastered a range of skills that will support their future development. These are:
- To have a sense of curiosity and enjoyment in PE through
- the celebration of international and national events to make PE meaningful
- being Young Leaders across the school to promote a love of sport and healthy lifestyles
- developing their attitudes towards sports buddies and team work
- To have experience Cultural Capital in a variety of different forms in PE through the
- Celebration of Sports role-models
- broad curriculum offer
- Clubs/extra-curricular activities
- Cross curricular opportunities where possible
- Trips and visits where possible and appropriate
- To be resilient, independent and self-motivated in PE through
- A keep going attitude in lessons
- Self – assessments – How can you improve? What went well? How can you challenge yourself?
- Sport Council representatives – KS1 and KS2
- Having stamina for sports and competitions
- To ask questions and to problem solve in PE through
- Children modelling skills for one another
- Sharing progress – reflect- What went well? How can you improve?
- Teamwork/problem solve in lessons through modifications and up-levelling of skills and action
- Turn taking and collaboration
- To be global citizens of the twenty first century in PE through
- Celebration of international and national events as they happen - Chris Hoy’s end homelessness campaign, Olympics celebration, Sports day, Euro 2020,
- Inter and intra competitions across the school. Participation in termly borough fixtures - competitive and festival events
- Promote resilience, independence, curiosity within lessons
- By understanding the importance of keeping fit and healthy throughout their lives
Implementation
At The Rosary Catholic Primary School, we believe that physical education, experienced in a safe and supportive environment, is a unique and vital contributor to a child’s physical development and well-being. Our broad and balanced physical education curriculum is intended to provide for pupils’ increasing self-confidence in their ability to manage themselves and their bodies, within a variety of movement situations. Progressive learning objectives, combined with a dynamic curriculum, endeavour to provide stimulating, enjoyable, satisfying and appropriately challenging learning experiences for all of our children and their needs. Skills are learnt from the start of the child’s Rosary journey, and developed, challenged and enhanced as they progress through school to create life-long healthy lifestyle habits.
Opportunities for cross curricular learning are capitalized where appropriate e.g. the use of activity specific vocabulary from Reception to KS2 to promote reading and the Robot Rugby (coding experience) with The Harlequins Foundation to promote STEM.
The PE Co-ordinator, the Executive Headteacher, the Head of School, and the Governors regularly review and quality assure the subject to ensure that it is implemented effectively. The co-ordinator will make changes to keep in line with the National Curriculum Objectives.
All pupils from Year 1 to 6 have at least 1.5-2 hours’ worth of planned physical exercise each week. In Reception, children explore fundamental movement skills alongside social skills, providing links to the Early Learning Goals.
In KS1, children aim to build their skills of agility, co-ordination and balance. At this stage, we introduce the concept of competition through small-sided games which allow pupils to put the skills they have learned into practice. Pupils are given opportunities to experience and develop their physical and leadership skills.
In KS2, pupils aim to build on the skills they have learned in KS1 which will enable them to access adapted versions of games through specific progression of skills across all games taught. Pupils are given a variety of different opportunities to lead within PE. By the end of KS2, we believe our pupils are ready to make a smooth transition to a PE curriculum in a secondary school.
During the summer term Sports Days are held for EYFS and KS1/2 covering traditional sporting activities, however the focus during these events is participation. Pupils in KS2 attend swimming lessons at Heston Swimming Pool, these are conducted in blocks. Year 6 have an annual residential trip in which they undertake a series of physical and challenging activities, including: assault courses; mid-ropes to high wires; climbing walls and tree climbing.
As we believe in the delivery of high quality PE, our school provides weekly Specialist PE support through Sport Impact. Here, a representative works alongside all teachers from Early Years to KS2 to provide additional support or CPD to develop their knowledge and teaching of PE further. Additional support has been invested in Let’s Leap who provide weekly opportunities for physical activity across both key stages in PE lessons.
As the children at The Rosary Catholic Primary School are at the heart of our curriculum, opportunities for physical activity are not just limited to timetabled lessons but are embedded in their day. Sport Impact deliver specialist clubs, games and intra competitions across KS1 and KS2. Let’s Leap continue to support our provision with a range of clubs such as dance, multi-sports, drama and football.
In Year 5, Young Leaders are given responsibility over the leading of lunchtime games. This is achieved after receiving specialist training from our Sport Impact Representative. In addition, a Young Leader, together with the Class Sports Representative, will engage in PE lessons with leadership of warm-up/cool-down exercises and small games. Our Sports Council in KS1 and KS2 ensure that pupils views are heard, acknowledged and implemented where possible.
Get Set 4 PE
In order for us to provide the curriculum we value, we use a scheme named, GetSet4PE.
It provides a child-centred approach that transforms how PE is taught to include and engage every child. It develops the key abilities that children need to be successful in PE and Sport across the curriculum. It inspires and motivates teachers and raises their confidence to deliver outstanding lessons as well as the ability to monitor the assessment of skills taught.
Our commitment to Physical Education is further supplemented in Key Stage 1 and 2 by the use daily active bursts to break up sedentary learning – an initiative that we have adopted to encourage pupils to walk, run, skip, hop, dance and use movement to increase the participation in daily physical activity and enhance memory, behaviour, and mental well-being.
The Rosary Catholic Primary School also has Key Indicators to assess the impact of the Sports Premium Funding which is used to enhance our curriculum. Such indicators are; the percentage of children being able to swim 50 metres; the participation levels of extra-curricular activities and the number of children experiencing off-site activities such as competitions.
Impact
As a result of our broad and balanced curriculum offer, we envisage that our pupils will become skilful, intelligent performers who can apply their physical, social, cognitive and emotional skills gained through PE to be effective leaders, communicators and team players in all areas of their lives.
- They will gain and develop skills performing with increasing physical awareness.
- They will learn how to select and apply skill, tactics and compositional ideas to suit activities that need different approaches and ways of thinking.
- To develop ideas in different ways and show creativity and understanding of the principles of the sport/ skills learned.
- Set targets for themselves are compete against others.
- Understand what it takes to persevere succeed and acknowledge the success of others.
- Respond positively to a variety of challenges being resilient and determined in the process.
- Take initiative, lead activities and focus on improving performances.
- Develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities.
- Lead healthy active lives
- Develop positive attitudes to participation in physical activity
- Engage in competitive sports and activities
- Embed the values of fairness and respect.
- Through pupil voice children talk enthusiastically about PE lessons and confidently talk about why PE is important. They enjoy active lessons and break and lunchtimes contributing to a healthy outlook.
- Pupils can link skills techniques and ideas and apply them accurately and appropriately. Pupils show good control in their movements.
- Pupils can compare and comment on skills, techniques and ideas that they and others have used,
- People use observations to improve their work.
- Pupils can explain important safety principles when preparing for exercise.
- Pupils can explain what effect exercise has on their body and why it is important.
We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:
- In Class/Lesson Feedback
We understand that feedback in linked to progress and has to be timely to make an impact. In class feedback is used to support teacher’s workload, ensure it is as immediate and timely and specific as possible, and leaves the teacher time to focus on individual identified needs. In PE, immediate feedback is provided to pupils to support them in developing their skills and knowledge within each lesson.
- Corrective Teaching/Summative Assessment
When a pupil has not met the learning objective there is timely support so they are able to continue on the learning journey with their peers. Teachers adapt their planning for the next lesson to ensure there is time to address these misconceptions. Coaches and teachers support the children with small steps to ensure progress of a skill.
- Teaching Assistants and Interventions
Interventions are offered to children who are entitled to the Pupil Premium Grant and children with SEND to ensure they are getting extra access to sports and lessons on healthy lifestyles.
- Partnership
Teachers engage parents through September welcome meetings. Parents receive updates through the school newsletter on pupil achievements in PE.
- School reports
School reports are issued at the end of the school year. PE is marked as Working towards National Expectations, Meeting National Expectations or Exceeding National Expectations.
21st Century World; 21st Century Learners
Curriculum Map
Example Curriculum map
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
Nursery | Introduction to PE: Unit 1 | Dance: Unit 1 | Introduction to PE: Unit 2 | Dance: Unit 2 |
Ball Skills: Unit 1
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Games: Unit 1
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Reception | Gymnastics: Unit 1 |
Fundamentals: Unit 1 |
Fundamentals: Unit 2 |
Gymnastics: Unit 2 |
Games: Unit 1
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Ball Skills: Unit 1
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Year 1 |
Dance
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Fundamentals
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Gymnastics
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Team Building
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Ball Skills
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Net and Wall
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Year 2 |
Fundamentals
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Dance
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Team Building
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Gymnastics
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Net and Wall
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Ball Skills
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Year 3 |
Yoga
Fitness |
Dance
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Athletics
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Fitness
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Rounders
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Fitness
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Year 4 |
Yoga
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Dance
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Athletics
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Fitness
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Basketball
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Tennis
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Year 5 |
Netball
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Gymnastics
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Dance
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OAA
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Athletics
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Dodgeball
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Year 6 |
Netball
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Netball
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Athletics
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OAA
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Volleyball
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Badminton
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