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Focus: Develop fundamental movement skills and confidence in a variety of activities to improve agility, balance, and coordination.
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Key Skills: Master basic movements (running, jumping, throwing, catching), balance, agility, and coordination.
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Activities:
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Participate in team games with simple tactics for attacking and defending.
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Perform dances using simple movement patterns.
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Focus on transferable skills across sports rather than specific sports.
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Approach: Lessons focus on basic skills, techniques, and tactics, applying them in small game situations.
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Individual Needs: Teachers assess students’ needs (e.g., listening, teamwork, resilience) and plan accordingly, collaborating with the PE specialist.
Key Stage 2:
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Focus: Broaden and apply a range of skills, linking them to create movement sequences and developing performance.
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Key Skills:
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Use running, jumping, throwing, and catching in combination.
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Play competitive games and apply basic attacking/defending principles.
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Develop flexibility, strength, balance, and control.
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Perform a range of dance patterns.
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Participate in outdoor/adventurous activities.
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Track and improve personal performance.
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Approach: Competitive games with conditioned rules; real games available through lunchtime clubs, after-school activities, and events. More focus on transferable skills between game types (e.g., invasion, striking).
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Individual Needs: Teachers assess and plan for students' development, working with the PE specialist to track progress.
Swimming and Water Safety:
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Focus: Ensure pupils swim competently and safely.
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Skills Taught:
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Swim 25m confidently using various strokes.
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Perform self-rescue in water.
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Swimming Sessions: Provided to Years 3-6 with one full term of swimming each year. Initial and final assessments to monitor progress, with additional 'top-up' sessions if needed for students who don’t meet the required standards.
