PE

Our essential learning objectives for Physical Education at Downe Primary school are to enable children:

To experience and enjoy a wide range of experiences within physical education and sport.
To develop enthusiasm, positive attitudes and practical skills in order to participate, compete and lead a healthy, active lifestyle.

During our physical education lessons children will follow personal learning journeys based on a FUNdamental skills, and multi-ability approach to teaching and learning. This curriculum equips children with the essential abilities to maximize potential, and enjoy long-term participation in physical activity and sport. Teaching and learning focuses on three main building blocks for every sporting action, these are known as ‘FUNdamental’ skills: Agility, Balance and Coordination.

The curriculum encourages creativity, collaboration and self-challenge, through six themed units per year, known as ‘multi-abilities’ which include: personal skills, social skills, cognitive skills, creative skills, physical skills and health related fitness. Pupils leave Downe Primary School physically literate and equipped with the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to ensure a healthy and active lifestyle.

Swimming:

Year 3 & 4 will continue to have swimming lessons for 10 weeks.

These will focus on teaching children to:

Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.
Use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke].
Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

Key Stage 1

In Key Stage 1, children explore the multi-abilities and FUNdamental skills through songs, stories and personal best challenges. Children begin to develop the notion of moving progressively through challenges until they reach the point of ‘failure’, then working collaboratively they ‘practice perfect’ until they can achieve consistent success

Year 3 and 4

During Year 3 and 4, we begin to look at how FUNdamental skills can be combined, and their context in sporting activities. Children experiment with the ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’ of combined skills, collaboratively and creatively exploring the most effective ways of practicing and performing more complex sporting actions.

Year 5 and 6

Throughout Year 5 and 6, children consolidate and further develop their FUNdamental skills through a range of competitive activities. The skills learnt in previous years will combine to formulate into high end matches in the chosen sport with some advanced techniques also taught