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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Physical Education (P.E.) ensures that our children have the knowledge to begin and maintain a healthy lifestyle. It helps them to be part of the local community and the wider world. Our children enjoy their PE learning as they explore new skills and experiences with their peers, collaborating and thinking creatively. We promote respect for ourselves and others and celebrate diversity.

We actively encourage all children to attend after school sports related clubs. See our children's thoughts on Physical Education in Pupil Voice below.

In the Early Years, PE is about improving the skills of coordination, control, manipulation and movement. In our school we believe effective physical development helps children to gain confidence in what they can do, feel the benefits of being healthy and active and have a positive sense of wellbeing.

Children have the opportunity to access planned activities that offer appropriate physical challenges through continuous outdoor provision and through timetabled gymnastics, dance and outdoor games lessons. We also encourage the development of fine and gross motor skills through the provision of suitable resources, for example riding bikes and using scissors, throughout the day. This includes opportunities for children with physical disability or motor impairment to develop their physical skills.

Our WOW Experiences

Nursery - Yoga workshop based on Old McDonald's farm
Nursery - Stage Pro developing a dance with children
Reception - Circus Skills Workshop
Reception - The Mitten dance workshop
Reception - The Mitten dance workshop
Reception - Making snowflakes in Dance
Reception - 'Happy Kids Yoga' visit
Reception - 'Creative Steps' dance session using elastic bands
Year 1 - Futsal sessions
Year 1 - Futsal sessions
Year 1 - Futsal sessions
Year 1 - Physical activities supported by Olympic athlete
Year 1 - Basketball taster session, practising using bear claw hands to bounce the ball
Year 1 - Cricket session, aiming at stumps
Year 1 - Cluster sports inter-school competition
Year 1 - Tennis skills
Year 1 - Balance Bike sessions
Year 1 - Yoga taster session
Year 1 - Fun Run
Year 2 - Tennis Skills
Year 2 - Cricket Skills (balance)
Year 2 - Cricket Skills (bowling)
Year 2 - Multi-skills Event

What Physical Education looks like in our school

Nursery - 'We're going on a Bear Hunt' (jump)
Nursery - 'We're going on a Bear Hunt' (over)
Nursery - 'We're going on a Bear Hunt' (under)
Nursery - Cosmic Yoga linked to our dark and light topic looking at nocturnal animals
Nursery - Enjoying movement and dance lessons using 'Boogie Beebies'
Nursery - Mastering hopping and jumping skills to complete the hopscotch game
Nursery - Outdoor PE in Nursery, hoops
Nursery - Outdoor PE in Nursery, stepping stones
Nursery - Outdoor PE in Nursery, stilts and hurdles
Nursery - Playing ring games
Reception - 'Diwali' - Exercises using yoga, working on balance
Reception - 'Jumping' to make words
Reception - Balance and movement
Reception - Balancing bean bang whilst walking
Reception - Ball control skills in outdoor PE
Reception - Ball skills, pushing, aiming and stopping
Reception - Developing ball skills
Reception - Developing ball skills
Reception - Gymnastics, star
Reception - Gymnastics (shapes)
Reception - Gymnastics, tuck straight
Reception - Two footed standing jump
Reception - Using hands to aim and roll ball at cones. Improving hand eye coordination
Reception - Using the wobbleboard to improve balance
Reception - Working on balancing skills
Using the apparatus
Year 1 - Dance Day
Year 1 - Football skills, dribbling through cones
Year 1 - Gymnastic shapes
Year 1 - Learning ball skills
Year 1 - Learning dribbling skills
Year 1 - Parachute games improving team games cooperation and listening skills
Year 2 - Backwards crab over soft bench
Year 2 - Caterpillar movement on bench
Year 2 - Gymnastics, working independently on a dish
Year 2 - Gymnastics, working independently on a headstand
Year 2 - Gymnastics, working independently on a sideways roll
Year 2 - Gymnastics, working independently on a straddle
Year 2 - Gymnastics, working independently on a tuck
Year 2 - Gymnastics, working independently on launching and landing
Year 2 - Gymnastics, working independently on shapes
Year 2 - Gymnastics, working independently on the apparatus
Year 2 - Gymnastics, working independently on the balance bars
Year 2 - Link combinations of gymnastic actions, body shapes with control
Year 2 - Lunge movement
Year 2 - Walk fluidly, lifting knees to 90 degrees

In Key Stage One, all children access two hours of PE a week through planned dance, gym and games slots in the hall and outside playground. We encourage an ethos of inter and intra competitions throughout the year and the opportunity for all children to take part in sport and enjoy and achieve. We value the contribution that outside agencies can provide and use their expertise to support our teaching and learning of PE. We believe being healthy and experiencing the opportunity to achieve in sport is paramount for our children. See What Physical Education looks like in our school above.

All children have planned PE lessons each week and a variety of resources and equipment is used in the lessons. The running track has become an important part of our healthy schools ethos and is used each day to help improve fitness.

Pupil Voice

Reception