PE
“Don’t dream of winning, train for it.”
Mo Farah, Olympian
Intent
At the Federation of Liphook Infant School and Junior CofE Junior School, we provide an ambitious and inclusive PE curriculum which is progressive across all year groups, linking practical physical skills and encouraging a healthy, active lifestyle in and out of school. Key elements are developed in Year R in order to provide solid foundations for the subsequent years’ PE teaching and learning as well as ensuring that children are socially and physically ready to engage in their learning across the curriculum. We value opportunities to provide our pupils with experiences of competitive sport within school and against other schools.
Implementation
Our curriculum is purposeful and relevant, where pupils receive at least twice weekly lessons alongside opportunities to be active throughout the school day and after school. For example, children regularly run the ‘Daily Mile’ on our allweather running track and use the wide range of climbing frames, apparatus and other equipment within the school grounds at play and lunchtimes. PE is embedded within each year group’s curriculum, ensuring that our pupils develop subject specific skills, knowledge and understanding as well as making links between topics and their learning in other subjects. For example, in Year 1, pupils develop dance sequences related to their science and history topics whilst, in Year 5, links are made to their science topic of Space. Staff receive high quality development opportunities from outside coaches to enable them to confidently deliver challenging PE lessons. Our rigorous assessment processes ensure that all children are supported and challenged appropriately throughout their PE learning journey. Extra provision, sometimes in additional year groups, is provided to enable children to achieve key skills, as in swimming. Our judicious use of the Sports Premium enables to ensure that the curriculum is broad and rich.
Impact
When pupils leave the Federation, their learning in PE will have enabled them to have gained and acquired skills from the 4 elements of movement skills, competitive games, communication and dance. The pupils will have gained a wider knowledge and understanding of the benefits that come from being active, for example a positive mental wellbeing and healthy lifestyle and take this into their future lives.
