PE
Intent
The purpose of Physical Education is to ensure that every child should be confident, enjoy and participate in a range of sports actively with increasing competitive aspects by the end of Year 6 no matter what their athletic ability. We aim to focus on the children’s physical and mental development to ensure that barriers to learning are reduced and accessible to all.
Implementation
We use a broad, diverse and cross curricular scheme that supports and challenges all pupils and provides opportunities for competitiveness. Outside of the PE curriculum, there are many opportunities for daily physical activities to promote a balanced, healthy lifestyle, such as ‘The Parkhill Mile’, Cycle to School Weeks and Active week.
An effective and diverse pedagogical approach is used for PE. Indoor PE sessions are taught once a week for one hour. The school have focused on dance across the school and have had a specialist dance teacher (with the class teacher) to support teachers with school productions. This has benefited teachers and pupils to ensure a greater understanding for assessing the pupils’ progress as well as how to sequence dance lessons. All outdoor sessions (once a week for an hour).
An assessment tool has been implemented so that it is manageable and enables PE lead and class teachers to identify strengths and areas for development against end of year expectations. Percentages are calculated against each class, whole year group and also across the whole school.
The importance of an all-inclusive PE curriculum is important to us at Parkhill Junior School, as we use advanced and effective cognitive approaches so that fundamental physical needs are met and developed for the future.
Impact
Everyone to be confident, independent and motivated towards an enriched healthy lifestyle and to be actively participating in sport. Every child to become autonomous and respectful leaders in sport, to promote sportsmanship and fairness. Also, for them to understand the importance of healthy eating, making healthy choices and understand that their mental and physical health interlink with one another. By the end of their Parkhill Junior School experience, every individual will be equipped with the fundamental physical skills, core values, attitudes and attributes so that they can appreciate and understand the importance of healthy behaviours, to become high performance learners.