'Enable our children to make informed choices about physical activity throughout their lives'

Vision for PE

By providing a high quality and progressive curriculum, our pupils will develop a life-long, healthy and positive relationship with physical activity. The children will be equipped with the knowledge and skills they need in order to be able to lead healthy and active lives. We intend for all children to develop the social skills within PE that enable them to effectively work with and encourage others, progressing towards leadership amongst peers. We aim for the children to develop both self-confidence and social-confidence within a safe and stimulating environment. We strive to deliver high-quality physical education which also embeds values such as fairness and respect, enabling the children to successfully engage with both competitive and skills-based opportunities. Competitiveness will be key, both with others and themselves, enabling them to develop a sense of pride in their achievements.

We are passionate in developing a strong sense of interest and enthusiasm for sport amongst the children, where we encourage individual talents and skills through sporting events and fixtures. Our role is to nurture these interests, expose them to new venues and the diverse world we live in and to provide the guidance which will enable the children to develop their aspirations, both in and out of school. Physical Education is a non-negotiable. An essential part of a child’s development and progress, it will have elevated priority within schools, being delivered by positive and inspired adults which will pass on their love of sport.  

Aims

Our PE curriculum aims for pupils to:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
• be physically active for sustained periods of time
• engage in competitive sports and activities
• lead healthy, active lives

We are aspirant for all children to leave Hucknall FHA as sportspeople. Please see appendix A: ‘What make a great sportsperson?’ for further information.

Intent

At Hucknall FHA, our curriculum is based on the National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 & 2 and the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. These documents stipulate the expectations which inform the intent of our curriculum, ensuring a high ambition for all. Further ambition is gleaned through the use of expert resources from the Association for PE.

Statements from the National Curriculum for PE and from the ‘physical development’ educational programme of the EYFS have been broken down and sequenced into strands and year groups. We call this a key knowledge progression document (KKPD). It contains key substantive, procedural and disciplinary knowledge that children need to know and remember.

Composite knowledge from the KKPD is mapped on to a whole school long-term plan and sequenced onto a PE subject map. Links are made across year groups and subjects through deliberate and diverse content choices.

Each PE KKPD statement is broken down into component (granular) knowledge and key vocabulary. These are used to support the creation of learning sequences and to identify ‘sticky knowledge’ – the most important knowledge children need to remember for the next stage.

The PE KKPD and component knowledge progression are used by teachers to create learning sequences and objectives. These are plotted on an enquiry or a discrete medium-term plan.

Implementation

The Hucknall FHA curriculum is delivered largely through a discrete approach, with carefully selected elements enhancing our enquiry.

Individual lessons are planned in detail using our lesson design model. This has been informed by leading research such as Rosenshine’s principles of instruction. The model includes five, flexible elements:

• Reactivate
• Teach, facilitate, model
• Learning together
• Independent practice
• Reflection

We use a range of varied teaching strategies to deliver PE lessons. We believe in whole-class teaching methods and we combine these with explorative practical learning opportunities. We encourage children to ask, as well as answer, PE questions as well as practically explore them. We offer them the opportunity to use a range of equipment such as balls, bats, hoops, cones and bean bags, in order to enable skill progression. Enrichment experiences are crucial to our PE learning and are used to immerse children within opportunities to apply newly learned skills.

Our learning environments are used as celebratory and instructional teaching tools. Learning journeys are organised with key knowledge and vocabulary accessible so that children can locate and use this key information easily and efficiently.