PE Policy
Aims of the Physical Education curriculum at St Luke’s:
Intent
At St Luke’s our key aim is to inspire EVERY child to be passionate about Physical Education and Sport. At St Luke’s, we believe that Physical Education and sport is for everyone! PE is the heart of our school and we aim to give them a love for PE, Sport, physical activity and a healthy lifestyle that continues throughout their lives.
Implementation
Our PE lessons at St Luke’s are devised from the Primary PE Planning online Platform. They allow for a consistent delivery and structure across the school. The planning has been developed so that progression is built into the scheme (an exciting learning journey from Early Years through to KS2). This ensures our children are increasingly challenged, inspired and motivated in ALL PE lessons. We believe that mastery is paramount allowing ALL children to feel confident and motor competent when learning key skills. The curriculum provides a foundation from Early Years to Key 2 for an ongoing development of Physical Literacy. Our children receive an inclusive, broad and balanced programme of PE. The curriculum is mapped to ensure that children participate in a wide range of activities.
Our planning is structured through the short, medium and long terms:
Short term lesson plans provide children with the opportunity to develop their skills, develop/build on knowledge & understanding while challenging all abilities. We strongly believe motor competence is key. Children are given clear learning goals and expectations. The lessons allow for feedback, 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. Many lessons also have accompanying videos which model powerful demonstrations and through these the children develop a picture of what success looks like and can focus towards it.
Medium term planning provides an overview of each unit – it incorporates PE assessment criteria, physical, thinking, social and emotional key skills, cross curricular links and aspects of health and safety. With every unit of work, we have the PPP progression of key skills documents and knowledge organisers. The knowledge organisers provide an overview of prior learning and highlight key terminology, rules and skills. Incorporated within each unit is the second pillar of progression: Rules strategies and tactics that can be through competition, personal bests and teamwork.
Long term planning is created through a curriculum map, this is devised through collaboration with colleagues and children. We also ensure pupil voice- (through questionnaires and individual feedback) is valued and we allow for time on the curriculum for the children to have an input as to lesson delivery options at the end of the summer term. We also link with topic areas, creating strong cross curricular links. Connective planning also incorporates seasonal, local, national and global events including, for example, SSP competitions, Wimbledon, World Cups, amongst many others.
Impact
PE is an essential part of the curriculum and through our PE lessons children develop their physical literacy and key skills giving them the tools to become physically confident and motor competent. Our High-Quality PE curriculum focuses on the whole child, developing their physical, social and thinking skills. Our PE is provided in a safe and supportive environment and is vital and unique in its contribution to a child’s physical and emotional development and health and wellbeing.
We provide opportunities for the children to compete against themselves and others during PE lessons, lunchtimes, afterschool clubs, and competitions within local partnerships, building character and developing key school games values including:
- Passion – Giving your all, putting your heart into the game, and never giving up.
- Self-belief – Having the confidence and self-discipline to succeed and reach your personal best.
- Respect – Treating everyone equally, supporting each other, and being polite and understanding.
- Honesty – Being honest with others and with yourself, and having the courage to do the right thing.
- Determination – Having the mental strength to overcome obstacles, commit to your goals, and keep working to improve.
- Teamwork – Treating others equally, supporting each other, and working together to have fun and achieve.
Our school aims are linked to those in line with the PE national curriculum, which are to ensure that all children:
- Develop competence in a broad range of physical activities
- Are physically active for sustained periods of time
- Engage in competitive sports and activities
- Understand how to improve in different physical activities and sports and know how to evaluate and recognise their own success.
- Lead healthy, active lives
The ‘Three pillars of progression’ are embedded throughout our curriculum:
These include:
- Motor competence – knowledge of the range of movements that become increasingly sport- and physical activity-specific
- Rules, strategies and tactics – knowledge of the conventions of participation in different sports and physical activities
- Healthy participation – knowledge of safe and effective participation
Teaching and Learning-Curriculum Implementation
Early years Provision:
The planning provided for Nursery and Reception is tailored towards the National Curriculum Early years and foundation stage EYFS set standards. Our planning is focused on the development stage for 3-5 year olds.
Progression is carefully planned and developed from Early Year through to KS2. We aim to develop fundamental movements skills (FMS) through gross and fine motor skills (first pillar of Progression: Motor Competence). In turn, these develop both confidence and control in activities such as running, jumping dancing, hopping, skipping and climbing. These FMS form the building blocks for more complex movement skills.
The lessons are challenging, engaging, fun, imaginative and well resourced. They also allow the children to transfer their learning skills from their PE lessons back into their classroom/outdoor play environment.
Key Stage 1
Children should 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.
Children are taught to:
- Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well
as developing balance, agility and coordination, 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.
Key stage 2
Children should continue to 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 should develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.
Children are 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, rounders 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.
Enrichment and Provision in PE
We also offer and provide the following in order to enrich and enhance the provision of PE at St Luke’s:
- 1:1 support in lessons/TA support: staff have received training on how to support different pupil groups within PE lessons and at lunchtimes
- Most able/G&T provision: we encourage more able to analyse performance and refine skills, act as mini coaches, role models/young leaders providing powerful demonstrations to peers within lessons.
- SEND support: We use primary planning SEND PE support resources; SENsory skills, PE social stories, SEND Task management, Sensory circuits and our adaptive teaching document to support SEND pupils.
- Clubs: we provide four afterschool clubs per week for children across school. Clubs are aimed at meeting children’s interests expressed during pupil voice interviews and provide opportunities for all children to participate.
- Competitions attended: we attend weekly competitions within our local partnership, as well as competitions provided by our local School Games partnership. These are aimed at providing opportunities at different levels for all of our pupils.
- Leadership: Play Leaders are provided with training and we use the PPP log charts to track participation. We also have leadership embedded within our curriculum.
- Community links: We work with a number of local community clubs to provide pupils with expert coaching, competitions, afterschool clubs and pathways into performance.
- Sports Values: Honesty, teamwork, respect, self-belief, passion and determination.
- Events: Sports Days; intra-class competitions; School Sports week.
- Active Daily Minutes: we organise our playground into zones with opportunities for intra-class competitions, friendly games with the chance to practise skills learnt in PE lessons and free play areas.
Assessment and Recording
Our assessment is embedded into every lesson, this is facilitated by our 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 are also linked to the ‘steps to success’ developed for a Teaching and Learning scaffold, incorporated within every lesson framework.
They also incorporate the National Curriculum attainment targets for each year. In short, the Progress-o-meter creates an individual pupil profile of attainment.
Collation of Data/Progress and Attainment
We monitor progress and attainment through the PPP tracker tool by recording pupil performance for each unit taught. This then summarises each child’s progress throughout all the units. The tool also highlights any pupils who are not meeting expected targets and enables teachers to address this through 1-1 support, intervention, clubs or to further differentiate PE lessons. It also highlights our most able (G&T) and allows for teachers to ensure our pupils are challenged and extended wherever possible.
The PE tracker tool ensures we can collate our data for Leadership, clubs and competitions.
Monitoring and Evaluation
The PE Lead Teacher is responsible for the overall monitoring of the quality of PE and Physical Activity provision at St Luke’s. At St Luke’s we monitor PE in the curriculum through subject reviews and self-evaluation in order to provide an accurate perspective on how it is being delivered and suggestions on how it may possibly be further improved further
Physical Education at St Luke’s is monitored and evaluated through:
- Lesson observations/Learning walks
- Monitoring of lesson planning/Unit plans
- Monitoring of equipment
- Pupils Assessment data
- Feedback from staff
- Children questionnaires/Pupil voice
- Pupil records of participation, focusing on different groups
- Feedback from pupils/school council about PE and general physical activity
- Pupil attendance and achievement in sporting competitions
- Attendance at after school sports clubs
When external providers are used to deliver physical activity, the PE Lead will observe to ensure that high quality lessons are delivered and assessed consistently and where appropriate that schemes of learning/on-line platform resources are being used in order to ensure consistency of approach and delivery.
Equal Opportunities
At St Luke’s we are committed to promoting equal opportunities irrespective of socio- economic background, gender, disability and ethnicity in all areas of the curriculum. We believe that our pupils should have equal access to and participation in all that is offered within Physical Education lessons and beyond. Teaching staff plan their lessons and make necessary adaptations and/or differentiation to ensure appropriate challenge and accessibility for all learners.
Inclusion
At St Luke’s we are committed to ensuring that all pupils participate in PE and physical activity irrespective of any special educational need(s) or physical disability they may have. We believe that pupils should have equal access to and participation in a range of physical education activities in order to reach their own potential. We also use the SEND resources provided by Primary PE planning in order to support our PE provision. At St Luke’s we believe that Physical Education and sport is for everyone!
EAL
Children who may have English as an additional language, are supported in our PE lesson. Due to the nature of PE, where access cannot be gained through verbal understanding, children will be encouraged to observe or copy and repeat either their peers or the Class Teacher. Fortunately, through our on-line platform (Primary PE Planning) many lessons are complemented with video tutorials, visual aids and resource cards and these act as a learning stimulus for ALL including EAL pupils. They are provided with the tools that will allow them to gain an insight as to what is required to succeed in the lesson. The Class Teacher may also have personalised strategies to enable EAL children to access lesson content, including language specialised ICT programmes and translation apps.
Training and support for staff
At St Luke’s we strive to ensure that ALL members of staff delivering PE are able to access high quality professional development when required. This can relate to ongoing delivery of activities in order to keep them fully up to date on key related issues and ensure they are confident to teach the full breadth of the curriculum. We also consider personal requests for CPD from staff members when required in order to progress them professionally. This training can be accessed through individual and group CPD and educational initiatives provided by the Local Authority and outside agencies. As a staff we are also able to access interactive zoom training/Staff CPD with reference to providing consistent lesson delivery and assessment through our on-line provider Primary PE Planning.
Click the link below to view our PE school blog page to see some examples of how our pupils flourish in PE at St. Luke’s:
https://stlukesceprimary.blog-pages.co.uk/subject/physical-education/
