St Peter & St Paul CE VA Primary School

Our Physical Education curriculum aims to ensure all our children:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
• are physically active for sustained periods of time both within the PE curriculum and beyond
• engage in competitive sports and activities
• lead healthy active lives
• build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.

In Key Stage 1 the children follow a multi-skills curriculum to develop fundemental movement skills and become increasingly competent and confident.  They engage in competitive activities both against themselves and others.  Children are taught to:

• master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination.
• participate in team games developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
• perform dances using simple movement patterns.​

In Key Stage 2 there is more focus on communicating, collaborating and competing with each other learning how to evaluate and recognise their own success.  Sports become more sport-specific.  Our spiral curriculum ensures depth of knowledge and skill progression.

In line with government recommendations of an hour daily activity, our children complete a minimum of two hours curriculum PE per week and in addition, use our school running track, have organised playtime activities and pre-school and after school clubs.