Intent
At Redwell we aim to inspire all children to develop a love of physical activity and sport. Through good physical education, whole school values and a whole child approach, we aim to nurture confident, resilient children who will strive for their personal best. We want to aid our children in obtaining the values and skills to celebrate and respect the success of others, as well as feeling pride in their own achievements. We aim to ensure that our delivery of physical education allows all children to have the skills and mind-set to leave Redwell with the capabilities to be successful in their future physical ventures. We strive to support our children and families with living healthy lifestyles and give them the information they need to be able to make healthy choices. We are dedicated to ensuring healthy minds, as well as bodies and will continue to support our children's well-being. We have strong links with local clubs and partnerships within our community to ensure the children and families receive the support and knowledge they need.
Implementation
- PE is taught using the PE Hub scheme of work, which builds progressively to deepen skills, knowledge, understanding and vocabulary.
- These lessons, which initially focus on the ABCs (Agility, Balance and Co-ordination) throughout EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2, ensure all children develop the fundamentals to engage in competitive sport as the get older. During UKS2, children focus more on competitive challenge: basketball, hockey, football, tennis, rounders, cricket, badminton and athletics.
- Teachers are able to seek advice and guidance from Year Group and the Subject Lead.
- PE should be taught for a minimum of 1 hour every week across the school. This is alongside the Redwell Mile twice weekly. We believe this is the best way to build physical fitness, skills, knowledge and support the children in building healthy lifestyles and minds.
- PE is mapped in accordance with the National Curriculum requirements, to ensure sufficient breadth of study and opportunities to revisit and build upon skills taught.
Threshold Concepts:
In PE, children must have the opportunity to develop their practical skills in order to participate, compete and lead a healthy lifestyle.
- This concept involves learning a range of physical movements and sporting techniques.
At Redwell, the children meet this threshold concept by learning PE through the following curriculum areas – Games, Dance, Gymnastics, Swimming, Athletics & Outdoor and Adventurous Activities.
Impact
We aim to provide children with an exciting, ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum that will instil a love of learning for life. Our approach enables all children to become lifelong learners by developing transferable skills to equip them to become successful citizens. We are an inclusive learning community, in which everyone is valued as an individual and supported to progress. We have high expectations for all our learners and seek to engage them with high quality teaching and engaging content.
Our curriculum aims to support our children to understand and make links in their learning, deepen their understanding, knowledge and skills and encourage their passions and enthusiasm for the subjects that we teach. We teach each subject discretely but make interdisciplinary links, where these are meaningful and appropriate.
We endeavour to provide all children with an environment in which they can thrive, develop curiosity and independent learning behaviours, which enables them to actively participate and learn study skills now and for their future. We encourage them to have high expectations of themselves through questioning, discussion and through the learning evident in their books. We aim for every child to make good progress using these principles.
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