PE

Mill Lane Primary School

PE Statement of Intent

At Mill Lane Primary School, we recognise the importance of Physical Education (PE) and the role it has to play in promoting long term, healthy lifestyles. The intent of our PE curriculum is to provide all children with high quality PE and sport provision. It is our vision for every pupil to succeed and achieve their potential as well as to lead physically active lifestyles. We strive to inspire our pupils through fun and engaging PE lessons that are enjoyable, challenging and accessible to all. We want our pupils to appreciate the benefits of a healthy and physically active lifestyle. Through our teaching of PE, we will provide opportunities for pupils to develop values and transferrable life skills such as fairness and respect as well as providing them with opportunities to take part in competitive sport.

At Mill Lane Primary School, we fully adhere to the aims of the national curriculum for physical education to ensure that all children:

develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
are physically active for sustained periods of time
engage in competitive sports and activities
lead healthy, active lives

The intent of our PE curriculum is to deliver high-quality lessons that inspire all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities. We aim to provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way, which supports their health and fitness. We want to provide opportunities to compete in sport and other activities that build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.

In Key Stage 1, the children will develop their fundamental skills, which will give them the building blocks to become competent and confident in a range of physical activities. The children will develop these skills in three main areas: locomotion (moving in a range of ways that include walking, running, jumping and dodging), stability (balancing) and object control (sending, receiving and controlling an object). They will use these building blocks to help them participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending. In addition to this, they will learn and perform dances using simple movement patterns.

In Key Stage 2, the children will continue to apply and develop their fundamental skills linking them together to make actions and sequences of movement. They will use this to help them play a range of competitive games* applying basic principles of attacking and defending. In addition to this, they will develop their flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance and will performing dances that use a range of movement. In P.E. lessons, children will communicate, collaborate and compete with each other and they will be given the opportunity to evaluate their performances, recognising how they can improve their performance and celebrating their own success.

School Sports Premium Funding

The Government is providing each primary school throughout England with additional funding which is to be spent on improving the sports provision within schools. At Mill Lane Primary School we believe a high quality PE curriculum should be an integral part of the whole school curriculum and one that staff, pupils and parents understand and can contribute to. Our school recognises the values that a high quality PE and school sport curriculum gives pupils.

Implementation

P.E. is taught at Mill Lane Primary School as an area of learning in its own right as well as integrated where possible with other curriculum areas. The aim is to teach two hours of curriculum PE and to encourage as many children to join lunch time clubs and after school clubs.
We teach lessons so that children:

Have fun and experience success in sport
Have the opportunity to participate in P.E at their own level of development
Secure and build on a range of skills
Develop good sporting attitudes
Understand basic rules
Experience positive competition
Learn in a safe environment
Have a foundation for lifelong physical activity, leaving primary school as physically active.

Impact

P.E is taught as a basis for lifelong learning, where the children have access to a wide range of activities in the belief that if taught well and the children are allowed to succeed, then they will continue to have a physically active life. A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all children to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities. At Mill Lane Primary, we provide opportunities for children to become physically confident in a way, which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.