PE

At St Joseph’s, we have designed a broad, balanced and progressive curriculum. Physical Education is an integral part of the National Curriculum, and our intent is that our PE curriculum is inclusive and engages all pupils. We aim to ensure all pupils:

•become competent in a broad range of physical activities (such as games, dance OAA, athletics and gymnastics).

•engage in competitive sports and activities.

•sustained periods of physical activity to ultimately give our children healthy and active lives now and in the future.

•have a lifelong enjoyment of PE and develop their understanding about the benefits of exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle and promote physical literacy.

•can cooperate and collaborate with others, as part of a team, understanding fairness and equity of play to embed fundamental British Values.

 

Swimming is an important life skill, and we aspire for all children to leave primary school being able to swim at least 25 metres

 

Our P.E. curriculum involves key areas, which children will access as a rolling two year cycle. Children will participate in: Athletics, Dance, Gymnastics, Games, Orienteering and Key Stage Two will also access swimming lessons. EYFS and KS1’s PE lessons focus on the development of their movement skills. These motor skills are crucial as they are the foundation of PE sessions that they will participate in.

 

PE sessions begin with a core task, that enables children to demonstrate their skills in a particular area such as athletics or dance. Once initial assessments have taken place, the next sequence of lessons are designed to develop and challenge children to develop and acquire new skills. A range of equipment is used to enable children to meet the learning objective. At the end of the unit of work, the core task is then repeated to show the progress children have made. Assessments are then carried out. Throughout our PE lessons we incorporate our Trust Values and British Values.

 

At St Joseph’s we endeavour to provide and broad range of extra-curricular activities, both at dinner time and after school. These include football, dance, tennis, fitness sessions, ultimate frisbee, hockey and archery.

 

At St Joseph’s we provide enjoyable learning, which ensures all requirements of the National Curriculum are fully met. Each year a small group of Year 5 and 6 children are invited to become Sports Leaders for the school. They develop into sporting mentors and assistant coaches for the school, take a leading role in break and lunch sports as well as, assisting in the planning and delivering of our annual Sports day.

 

Children leave St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School with the key skills and knowledge necessary for the next stage of their learning. The impact of our mathematics curriculum will be measured through:

• the subject lead ensures that the National Curriculum requirements are met

• pupil outcomes are monitored through deep dives, where evidence is gathered in the following ways: pupil voice interviews, drop- ins, discussions with staff etc.

• assessing children’s knowledge of key component learning as identified in the core tasks.

• assessing children’s understanding of key skills.

• professional dialogue between teachers to assess the quality of children’s learning.

• sharing good practice among staff.

• the PE lead identifies clear next steps, which are determined by a cycle of monitoring, evaluating and reviewing.

• monitoring of progress from year to year ensuring pupils remain ‘on track’ from their starting point.