We are now a real PE Legacy School!

We are very proud to say that our children have started to take part in developing not only Physical and Fitness skills but will also have the chance to be develop their Cognitive, Social, Creative and Personal skills this year. 

PE Intent

At St Faith’s, it is our intent to encourage children to have high expectation and to think beyond what they can physically do now so that they strive to develop a lifelong love of sports with the knowledge and understanding of how to lead a heathy and active lifestyle. It is our belief that our curriculum is progressive and is designed to include both challenge and support so that children of all ages and abilities can succeed in PE.

Through using Real PE we hope to develop the ‘whole child’ in a broad and holistic approach which develops a range of personal, social, physical, health and fitness, cognitive and creative abilities. From this we hope to provide opportunities that build character and help to embed our school values.

Implementation of PE

We aim to encourage our children to remember knowledge and build on their prior learning and skills by ensuring we carefully consider how knowledge is sequenced. Teachers must understand what pupils must know and be able to do in each subject by the end of each academic year; they must recognise what has come before and what pupils will continue to learn in the next year.

Our curriculum design is based on two main principles:

1) Learning is most effective when spaced rather than blocked.

2) Retrieval of previously learned content is frequent and regular, which increases both storage and retrieval strength.

We aim to encourage our children to remember knowledge and build on their prior learning by ensuring we carefully consider how knowledge is sequenced. Teachers must understand what pupils must know and be able to do in each subject by the end of each academic year; they must recognise what has come before and what pupils will continue to learn in the next year.

Early Years

In EYFS, PE is taught through the development of both Moving and Handling and Health and Self Care so that children develop their skills in large movements (climbing, balancing, strength.) and small movements (holding a pencil, threading beads,). This area of learning also includes developing toileting skills, dressing and undressing independently and understanding how to stay fit and healthy.

While at St Faith’s, we strive to ensure all children develop physically to show good control and coordination, gain an ability to move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space while being able to handle equipment and tools effectively. We do this daily by providing opportunities for children to practice and develop these skills both inside and outside of the classroom.

We also enhance the children’s knowledge of what is PE and why it is important by providing weekly PE lessons in Reception and a range of physical challenges, including some interactive stories in Nursery. For these teachers are supported by the Real PE platform to deliver high quality and engaging lessons that focus on the development of fundamental movement skills (FUNS). Our EYFS curriculum for PE is the building blocks in which all future learning will take place and through following the real PE scheme we start them on a journey which will take them into Key stage 1.

As part of our good practice, we consistently promote the importance for good health, physical exercise, and a healthy diet. As a school, we dedicate one day a term to promoting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.

Key Stage 1

In accordance with the National Curriculum and through the Real PE platform children are taught to:

•Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities.

• Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending.

•Perform dances using simple movement patterns.

Our curriculum in Key Stage 1 is a continuation of the journey our children start in EYFS and further develops their Fundamental movement skills (FUNS).

Over their time children will learn 12 FUNS which are progressive and offer both challenge, support and differentiation when needed.

In Key Stage 1, our Real PE curriculum endeavours to provide opportunities for all pupils. The language and environment we create is inclusive and makes every child feel valued. Within our lessons there is a clear focus for learning which is achievable and relevant; where every child can access all parts of the lesson and praise is predominantly based around positive behaviours and progress.

Stay Active at home! 

Get dancing or get moving with these online videos

Just Dance Videos – free online dance videos to current and classic songs which can be completed in a small space.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-3tkqR92QINQyCrVocb1Q

Supermovers Fun curriculum linked resources to get your class moving while they learn

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-collection/zbr4scw 

Cosmic Kids Yoga – yoga videos ranging from 5 to 30 minutes available via YouTube