"The game is never more important than the people you play it with." Debra Demaline Maxted

“A healthy active lifestyle not only changes your body, it changes your mind, your attitude and your mood for the better.” – Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Intent

Our vision at St Dennis is to provide high quality physical education and school sport that leads to enjoyment, confidence and positive attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle now and in later life. We want to enable all abilities to acquire new knowledge and skills in PE that they are confident to use and that lead to strong mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing.

Our curriculum is customised, designed and personalised for the pupils in our school and aims to enable, develop and challenge children’s abilities in a range of physical activities and sports – helping them to develop their personal fitness and a healthy sense of competition and also learn important life skills such as communication, teamwork, leadership, organisation, honesty, perseverance, resilience and fair play.

Implementation

We follow the breadth of the programmes of study of the National Curriculum for physical education.

All children take part in two hours of exciting and active PE every week, both indoors and outdoors, using a wide variety of equipment. 

For our weekly PE lessons, we use REAL PE, which focuses on agility, balance, coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning. This emphasises a child-centred approach that includes challenge and support for every child. It also develops physical literacy, knowledge, emotional and thinking skills for life.

Four our weekly sport lessons, we use PE Planning, which focuses on the progression of skills in a range of sports through active and engaging learning. 

Assessment

We assess our pupils using the Jasmine PE Wheel. There are nine areas of assessment: applying physical skills, agility, balance, co-ordination, swimming, health and fitness, creative, social and personal.

This assessment links closely to areas taught in PSHE and science, providing a cross-curricular scope of study that is progressive, engaging and ambitious for all pupils. 

How does PE promote British Values?

Democracy - Children learn about socially acceptable behaviour through PE. They work individually and in teams to make informed choices and through this learn about different roles including being a leader and a team player.

Rule of law - Children understand the need for rules, adhere to and develop them for activities that they create, including those within competition. They also adhere to and understand the rules of safety. They demonstrate good social skills and can solve problems on their own or with others.

Individual liberty – Children respect individual differences and are confident to express their opinions and respect views of others. They are also able to make judgements about their own and others’ performances. Children feel safe in curricular and extracurricular activities and during off site fixture visits.

Mutual respect and tolerance – Children know, understand and be able to articulate different styles of dance and the historical aspects of various activities whilst avoiding stereotyping groups and articulating their own beliefs. Children respect PE equipment, the school facilities and other venues at off-site fixtures. They know the values of the school and PE contribute to their development and accept rewards and sanctions. Children can access competition within and outside of the school and demonstrate appropriate behaviour and regard for rules and regulations.