PE
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PE and School Sport play a vital role in the life of students at King’s Hedges Educational Federation. Through our curricular and extra-curricular provision, we are dedicated to ensuring that every young person has the opportunity and confidence to participate, lead, perform and evaluate in PE and Sport.
Physical Activity
We strive to ensure children receive their recommended daily physical activity recommendation. Our Jubilee Gym is used to increase the physical activity of children at King’s Hedges. The Jubilee gym is equipped with a running track, obstacle course and a 6-piece outdoor gym. Children are able to use the gym at allotted breaktimes and freely during lunchtime. Alongside The Jubilee Gym, we have a range of sporting activities for children to participate in during lunchtime. Football runs on a timetable and children are able to take part with our sports coach weekly. In addition, we have both sports leaders and lunchtime supporters who run daily games for children to participate in. Finally, we have a range of sporting activities children can participate in on a weekly rotation with our lunchtime supervisors. Activities such as: archery, boules, frisbee and circus skills to name a few.
The Curriculum
All children participate in gymnastics, dance, games, athletics, swimming and outdoor and adventurous activities. Children are taught skills and provided with opportunities to apply these skills.
Every year, year 3 complete two and half terms of swimming. Children perform safe self-rescue in water-based situations, are taught to use a range of strokes effectively and are taught to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.
In years 4,5 and 6 children complete an outdoor and adventurous unit where they take part in challenges both individually and as a team. Children use taught skills from previous geography units to support compass and map reading.
Extra-curricular clubs
Each term, children will have the opportunity to participate in extra-curricular clubs. Children will always be offered a sporting club termly. These clubs aim to provide opportunities to engage and encourage children to explore a wide variety of hobbies and apply their curriculum learning. The clubs are entirely free for children in the hope to encourage participation and physical activity.
Vision
Excellence achieved through care, creativity and challenge.
Intent
Our curriculum design ensures our pupils are fluent in the fundamental movement skills and are able to apply these across the PE curriculum. We strive to ensure pupils understand the importance of health and aspire to ensure they are leading a healthy lifestyle. Our curriculum is designed in this way to provide pupils with the substantive and disciplinary knowledge required to become a holistic sportsperson.
Implementation
Our curriculum is designed in a way to ensure pupils are provided with opportunities in a range of different sporting contexts. Within each area of the curriculum, pupils are taught motor competence, safety of exercise, importance of health and fitness, tactical understanding and evaluation of performance. We refer to these elements as our purple threads which are interleaved within the different sporting activities taught across the curriculum. Pupils will have the opportunity to take part in conditioned games with opponents and apply tactics and approaches to improve performance.
We use The Cambridgeshire Scheme of Work for Physical Education as a starting point to the delivery of our curriculum. Teachers will adapt lessons using the STEP (space, task, equipment, people) differentiation framework to meet the needs of pupils. Alongside this, teachers will use and model the correct vocabulary using the vocabulary progression map to ensure pupils are using relevant vocabulary to their key stage and motor competence.
PE is taught for an hour weekly with additional physical activity opportunities throughout the school day. Many of our children live in buildings with limited outdoor space or room for physical activity therefore, we ensure our pupils’ have opportunities to engage with physical activities throughout the day.
Impact
Assessment for learning is embedded within each session so that teachers can assess that pupils have learnt more and remembered more. Pupils are given frequent opportunities to evidence their understanding which allows pupils to receive immediate feedback through dialogue with the teacher. These ongoing assessments help guide the teachers in their planning. We aim to ensure all pupils are prepared with the skills and knowledge required to be successful in their next stage of physical education.
Enhancements
We have a systematic approach to planning and implementing extra-curricular opportunities to increase participation of pupils beyond PE lessons. This allows them to have time to practise, develop and improve their knowledge. These opportunities are not restricted to before or after school, it also includes activities for pupils to participate in during breaks and lunchtimes. For example, access to the Jubilee Gym, sports leaders and the Daily Mile.
In addition to opportunities for competition in class, children often compete in whole school intra house competitions. Children compete in teams and as individuals to earn house points collectively.
PE Progression
