PE

PE

Intent: 

At London Meed, we recognise the importance that PE plays in providing a rounded curriculum to all children and we are committed to providing all children with opportunities to engage fully in Physical Education. Through PE, we incorporate our core values (Bravery, Community, Curiosity, Resilience and Respect) to ensure that our children develop as life-long learners and responsible citizens. Through Quality First Teaching and having high expectations, we ensure all children (including disadvantaged and SEND) are accessing the curriculum by constantly reviewing and adapting teaching. 

Curriculum  

Our curriculum develops fundamental movement skills and physical literacy through units of work that relate to personal, social, cognitive, creative physical and fitness skills. 

This allows children to access a broad range of opportunities to develop and extend their fitness, agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others through a fun and engaging curriculum. From a young age, children will understand the importance of health and the benefits that eating healthy foods and exercise can have on their body.

We spend time focusing on children’s communication, collaboration and ability to compete with others as well as competing against their own personal targets to ensure all children are challenged and make progress, while developing their understanding of how to improve their physical literacy and sports. 

Our children will: 

• Develop the foundations for all children to have a positive lifelong passion for being active and leading a healthy life, as well as understanding the positive relationship between physical activity and mental health and will contribute to each child's suggested daily 60 minutes of physical activity; 

• Develop a love of PE by accessing a varied and rich curriculum of different activities where fundamental skills are linked throughout. 

Extra curricular activities

We want all children at London Meed to have opportunities to take part in, succeed and excel in competitive and physically demanding activities, whilst ensuring that good sportsmanship is maintained throughout these opportunities. We work to facilitate opportunities for all children to take part in local sports festivals, competitions and events with other schools, as well as providing clubs outside of school to widen their experiences. 

Swimming

All children are provided with an opportunity to take part in swimming lessons in KS2  as part of our school curriculum. By the time they leave us, children should be able to swim at least 25 metres, as well as being able to use a range of effective strokes and perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations. 

Implementation: 

At London Meed, we use the REAL PE scheme to teach our PE across the school. This scheme ensures that children are given a wealth of opportunities to develop their physical movement skills as well as achieving whole child objectives. Reception children begin to develop the foundations of movement through accessing the Physical Development strand of Development Matters. This is taught as part of their continuous provision throughout the day as well as having discrete PE sessions. 

In KS1 and KS2, children have at least 2 hours of quality PE sessions a week following the scheme. In a PE session you will see:  consistency in routines including a warm up, fundamental skill development and assessment opportunities throughout. All children are provided with opportunities for children to work independently, in pairs or in teams, and are encouraged to perform and give or receive feedback and use subject specific vocabulary that builds on previous learning / year groups. Teachers use assessment to ensure all children are challenged at the appropriate level and supported with their own personal progress targets.

Impact: 

Our curriculum is designed so that children are taught a variety of activities throughout each year and  key stages, and can access a carefully considered progression journey through all of these. Children have the opportunity to take part in extra-curricular activities and demonstrate their new skills in intra and inter sports competitions. Children will become confident within the different strands of PE and show resilience when tackling new skills. Children will recognise the importance of physical activity and enjoy taking part in lessons that both stimulate and stretch them.