PE is to promote an active and healthy lifestyle as well as learning fundamental skills within sports.

Leader: Zoe Pearce & Vicky Wheeler

Intent

At Frimley, we offer a balanced sporting programme which is essential to the development of the whole child. We intend to offer children accessibility to a wide range of sports both through the curriculum and extra-curricular clubs, to engage all pupils and kick-start healthy, active lifestyles. PE and sport gives children the chance to be creative, expressive, co-operative and competitive, inside and outside of the classroom. Being regularly physically active can also help to ease anxiety, tension and stress and will result in improved attention in class.

As a school, we aim to ensure that all children are taking part in 2 hours of physical activity a week to provide the foundation for a healthy lifestyle. A clear competition pathway enables all pupils to participate in competition with opportunities for all, regardless of ability. Through the promotion and implementation of the Frimley values and the School Games values, pupils will understand the importance of working as a team, showing resilience, self-belief and determination to achieve their own personal best while supporting others to do the same. We also aim to offer a broader range of activities and sports to all pupils, including SEND children and Pupil Premium, to increase participation levels and interest in physical activity.

Implementation

• We use a mastery-based curriculum that is progressive and broken into modules.
• Teachers deploy the Rosenshine principles to support the teaching and learning process: reviews of previous learning, new information is presented in small steps, high-level questioning, carefully considered models, guided practice, checks for pupil understanding, obtainment of a high success rate, scaffolds for difficult tasks, opportunities for independent practice and reviews of learning over extended periods. 
• All pupils will take part in 2 dedicated PE sessions each week. Each half term, year groups will focus on a different sport, based around either invasion games (football, tag rugby, netball, hockey, handball); striking and fielding (rounders, cricket) and net games (tennis, badminton). Additional lessons will also focus on gymnastics, dance, fitness and orienteering.
• Children will also receive swimming lessons during KS2 as part of their PE curriculum, delivered by specialist teachers.
• Essential knowledge and skills are revisited with increasing complexity – this allows children to revise and build on their previous learning.
• When learning a sport, skills and knowledge is broken into small steps. Children are given opportunities to learn and develop their skills before applying them to small games.
• As part of the PE curriculum, all pupils will participate in an intra-house tournament each half term while inter-school competition opportunities will be available throughout the school journey through the Surrey Heath Primary Schools’ Sports Association.
• Cross-curricular links are utilised in subjects including science and PSHE, promoting the importance of making connections across different areas of learning.
• Class teachers assess children’s ability to perform skills and to apply them to assess attainment against the KS2 National curriculum objectives.
• Teachers have the opportunity to observe qualified professionals to support their own CPD and to ensure teaching of PE is to the highest possible standard.
• A broad range of extra-curricular clubs will be provided throughout the year by school staff and external providers, including less accessible sports that children may not otherwise have the opportunity to take part in. 
• The Active Surrey competition levels – higher, aspire and inspire, provide opportunities for all children to represent the school in inter-school competition.
• The school’s values and the School Games values will be promoted across all areas of sport and PE with adults and the sport crew acting as role models and through celebration of positive examples demonstrated by pupils.
• Extra-curricular clubs and identification of talent from teachers will provide a pathway for pupils to participate in inter-school competition.
• Links to careers in the PE, sports and fitness fields are made to show how children’s learning links to the wider world of work.
• The PE leads will carry out learning walks in all year groups to monitor teaching and learning, to identify strengths and areas for development in provision and to garner pupil voice.

Impact

Children will:

• Develop a positive attitude towards sport and physical activity whilst understanding the benefits of a healthy active lifestyle.
• Develop a range of physical skills as well as teamwork and personal skills such as resilience, self-belief and determination.
• Participate in a varied curriculum that is delivered to a high standard.
• Understand the benefits of a fit and healthy lifestyle.
• Have the opportunity to engage in a range of extra-curricular activities with a focus on sport and/or physical activity.
• Have a clear pathway to competition through PE, extra-curricular provision and talent identification from teaching staff.
• Children will develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.
• Leave Frimley with a broader range of knowledge of different sports and the rules and skills needed to progress their understanding further when they reach KS3.
• Understand how their learning in PE links to the wider world of work.
• Meet the relevant end of key stage expectations outlined in the National curriculum for PE at the end of Key stage 2.