"Intelligence and skills can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong."

-John F.Kennedy

What does PE look like at Uplands?

At Uplands, we aim for our Physical Education curriculum to engage children with being physically active and living a healthy lifestyle for now and in the future. Children will develop an eagerness to participate and demonstrate positive attitudes to skill acquisition and development, competitive situations and leading and organising within lessons. We aim to teach them transferrable skills across a range of sports and build on these skills each year. We want our children to be exposed to a range of different sports including invasion games, swimming, gymnastics and dance. We make sure the children get two hours of physical activity across the week and during Key Stage 2, all children have a term of swimming lessons each year with the intention of them being able to swim at least 25 metres at the end of year 6. Where relevant, we make links in our PE lessons to our five Big Ideas that appear throughout all subjects in our curriculum: environment, similarities and differences, diversity, relationships and changes.

Enrichment Opportunities

In addition to our two lessons of PE a week, we enrich our PE curriculum through providing a range of other opportunities for our children. These have included:

• A sport enrichment week where the children got to experience climbing, caving, Frisbee golf, trampolining.
• Various afterschool clubs run by teachers: football, netball, cross-country, cricket, yoga.
• Daily yoga sessions in class.
• Daily mile run around our playground.
• Country Dance festival.
• Visits from Atlas Sport who run various inclusive sporting events.
• Extra sporting activities off school premises held throughout the year: District Sports events, Quad Kid Athletics, cross country, swimming gala, competitive boys’ football tournament, competitive girls’ football tournament, handball events, dodgeball, shonkball, multi-skills festival.

PE Outcomes

At Uplands, we communicate our learning through a variety of ways. In PE, this can include solo, group and class dance performances, solo, group and class gymnastic performances, working on specific skills required for games, learning different strokes in swimming, taking part in team games, taking feedback to improve skills, giving constructive feedback to peers about their performance and working on tactics.

Class teachers formatively assess the children’s understanding of the key vocabulary, knowledge and skills taught throughout their lessons. They also record an overall understanding of key areas at the end of each unit to enable the subject leader and future teachers to have a picture of each child’s learning journey across their time from Reception to Year 6.

Granular Knowledge

We have looked carefully at how we have sequenced our PE curriculum to ensure our children get to build on previous learning as they move through the school. We wanted to make sure they experience a good range of different sports/games whilst being able to build on the transferable skills from previous units.