We want our children to become physically literate, developing the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy, active lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.

Our high-quality physical education curriculum:

• inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities
• provides opportunities for our children to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness.
• provides opportunities for our children to compete in sport and other activities to build character and to help embed values such as fairness and respect.

We believe physical activity is essential to the overall development of children, not only does exercise improve a child's overall health and fitness it helps to improve their mental health and cognitive development, by doing physical exercise, children are more likely to concentrate and maintain focus when learning.

Our National Curriculum planning ensures that all children are prepared well for the next stage of their education, and we use the Sport Premium to achieve self-sustaining improvement in the quality of PE and sport.

We do this through:

• High quality professional development of all staff so they gain the necessary subject knowledge to teach Physical Education to a high standard.
• Long Term and Medium-Term planning which builds in a progressive way and includes clear end points, so children gain the necessary knowledge and skills to be successful. 
• Lessons with clear objectives which provide all our children with stimulating, enjoyable and appropriately challenging learning experiences.
• Promoting physical activity as an important contributor to a healthy lifestyle, thus encouraging our children to see the importance of lifelong physical activity.
• Providing a balance of individual, paired and group activities so that children have opportunities to work independently, co-operatively, collaboratively and in competitive situations.
• Providing opportunities for children so they can take part in activities outside of their normal physical education lessons including sports festivals within the community.
• Ensuring all children have access to at least 2.5 hours of physical activity each week, consisting of two PE curriculum sessions and includes active playtimes and lunchtimes where fundamental movement skills are also developed.
• All PE lessons are carefully planned, the teaching objectives cover the four aspects of PE outlined in the National Curriculum:

1. Acquiring and developing skills.
2. Selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional ideas.
3. Evaluating and improving performance.
4. Knowledge and understanding of health and fitness.

We use the PE and sport premium to secure improvements in the following 5 key indicators:

1. Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
2. Engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity
3. The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement.
4. Broader experience of a range of sports and physical activities offered to all pupils.
5. Increased participation in competitive sport

Please click here to see our review for 2023-2024