PE develops a child’s knowledge, skill and understanding, so that they can perform with increasing competence and confidence in a range of physical activities. A varied curriculum is in place to support this, with activities including dance, athletics, gymnastics, games, swimming and water safety and outdoor adventure activities.
Physical education promotes an understanding in children of their bodies in action. It involves thinking, selecting and applying skills and promotes positive attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle. This a promise that we make to all children at Billingborough. We aim to enable children to make informed choices about physical activities throughout their lives.
Through the teaching of PE, Billingborough Primary School intends to:
Enable children to develop and explore physical skills with increasing control and co-ordination.
Encourage children to work and play with others in a range of group situations.
Develop the way children perform skills and apply rules and conventions for different activities.
Show children how to improve the quality and control of their performance.
Teach children to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise.
Develop the children’s enjoyment of physical activity through creativity and imagination.
Develop an understanding in children of how to succeed in a range of physical activities and how to evaluate their own success.
Assess pupils learning, analyse and interpret the results to inform future planning and lessons.
Teaching of PE in the Foundation Stage:
Pupils within EYFS undertake daily physical exercise within a specialised external area, including a trim trail and climbing wall. They also have use of the fully-equipped sports and school hall for structured activities at least once a week. Cross-curricular links enable PE activities to take place during literacy and maths.
Teaching PE in Key Stage 1 and 2:
All pupils from Year 1 to 6 have at least 2 planned physical exercise sessions each week.
Children also have the opportunity for physical activity during morning and lunchtime breaks on the school yards, stocked with resources. Staff are on duty to co-ordinate a range of active playground games.
Pupils in KS2 attend swimming lessons at Sleaford swimming pool; which are conducted in blocks.
During the summer term, Sports Days are held for EYFS and KS1/2 covering traditional sporting activities, where the focus is on participation.
All our activities are supported by a variety of sports clubs led by school staff and visiting professionals, both at lunchtime and after school.
Children are motivated to participate in a variety of sports through quality teaching that is engaging and fun. Children partake in a range of lunchtime and after-school clubs that appeal to all. From our lessons, our children learn to take responsibility for their own health and fitness; many of them also enjoy the success of competitive sports. Children are equipped with the necessary skills and a love for sport. They leave school happy and healthy, utilising the skills and knowledge acquired through PE.
Children learn about teamwork in competitive sports, keeping fit and a range of athletic and sporting skills. The school provides an excellent range of opportunities within the curriculum and outside of the school day.
Purpose of study
A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. It should provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.
Aims
The national curriculum for physical education aims to ensure that all pupils:
Attainment targets
By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study.
Subject content
Key stage 1
Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.
Pupils should be taught to:
Key stage 2
Pupils should continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They should develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.
Pupils should be taught to:
Swimming and water safety
All schools must provide swimming instruction either in key stage 1 or key stage 2. Children attend swimming lessons during the Autumn Term of Year 5/6.
In particular, pupils should be taught to:
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
Our cookies ensure you get the best experience on our website.
Please make your choice!
Some cookies are necessary in order to make this website function correctly. These are set by default and whilst you can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, some functionality such as being able to log in to the website will not work if you do this. The necessary cookies set on this website are as follows:
A 'sessionid' token is required for logging in to the website and a 'crfstoken' token is
used to prevent cross site request forgery.
An 'alertDismissed' token is used to prevent certain alerts from re-appearing if they have
been dismissed.
An 'awsUploads' object is used to facilitate file uploads.
We use Matomo cookies to improve the website performance by capturing information such as browser and device types. The data from this cookie is anonymised.
Cookies are used to help distinguish between humans and bots on contact forms on this website.
A cookie is used to store your cookie preferences for this website.
Cookies that are not necessary to make the website work, but which enable additional functionality, can also be set. By default these cookies are disabled, but you can choose to enable them below: