Mellis Church of England Primary School - 'To Be Our Best'

'Just play. Enjoy the game. Have fun.'

Michael Jordan.

Mellis Primary School – PE Curriculum Statement

Intent:

• The school believes that physical education, experienced in a safe and supportive environment, is vital and unique in its contribution to a pupil’s physical and emotional development and health. The physical education curriculum aims to provide for pupils’ increasing self- confidence through an ability to manage themselves successfully in a variety of situations.
• A balance of individual, team, co-operative and competitive activities aims to cater for individual pupil’s needs and abilities. The teacher should develop a scheme of work which will include progressive learning objectives which, combined with varied and flexible teaching styles, endeavour to provide appropriate, stimulating, challenging and enjoyable learning situations for all pupils.

Implementation

• Children will receive the equivalent of two hours of PE each week. One hour will be taught by our highly qualified in-house sports instructor and one hour by the class teacher.
• Children will be given a wide range of opportunities to participate in after sports clubs across both key stages provided by external sports coaches and school staff.
• The school will aim to enter every single sports competition held by the local school sports partnership and where possible two teams will be taken in order to ensure as many children are actively involved as possible.

Impact

Children will:

• Participate in a range of psycho-motor / movement  activities in order to develop personal physical skills.   (Practical attainment)
• Be made aware of their body in relation to others and their immediate environment and aim to promote quality of movement. (Kinaesthetics)
• Be made aware of simple physiological changes that occur to their bodies during exercise. (Physiology)
• Be given opportunities to develop imagination and co-operation to achieve shared goals. (Teamwork)
• Be given opportunities to develop personal characteristics like initiative, self-reliance and self discipline (Self knowledge)
• Be given opportunities to enjoy and succeed in the subject as well as be stimulated and challenged. (Problem solving)
• Be given the opportunity to develop areas of activity of their choice in extra-curricular time.
• Make full use of the facilities here to prepare a child mentally and physically for key stage 3 and beyond.