Intent:

At Landulph Primary School we recognise the importance of Physical Education to a child’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development as well as the role it can play in a child’s spiritual, moral and cultural development. Physical Education develops the children’s knowledge, skills and understanding, so that they can perform with increasing competence and confidence in a range of physical activities. Physical Education promotes an understanding in children of their bodies in action. It involves thinking, selecting and applying skills and promotes attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle. Thus enabling them to make informed choices about physical activity throughout their lives.

We aim to provide a broad and balanced P.E. curriculum to aid children’s increasing self-confidence in their ability to manage themselves and their bodies within a variety of movement situations. A balance of individual, team, cooperative and competitive activities aims to cater for individual pupil’s needs and abilities. The school grounds are used on a daily basis to support the learning and communication of children across the curriculum.

Outdoor Learning:

The children at Landulph are given the chance to participate and complete Wild Tribe activities from trained Wild Tribe practitioners. This offer the children the chance to explore the outdoors and use creative lessons to learn about the world we live in and experience the local environment. This offers the children a chance to work in small groups, communicate and share their ideas with other students. Lessons are often documented through photography and comments from the children.

Wider PE Evidence:

In addition to the importance placed on P.E. lessons, we also promote our wider curriculum offer which includes the opportunities for pupils to take part in extra-curricular sports and activity clubs and competitions. Often local teams and clubs offer CPD to staff. Go Active are also a company that provides interesting and interactive lessons that focus on a range of different sports, they also provide the chance to help children become Sports Leaders to help with playtime activities and the development of social skills. Daily physical activity and health enhancing activities also play a crucial role in our offer to pupils. This includes active lessons, active break and lunchtimes and extra-curricular activities.

Implementation:

• PE at Landulph Primary School provides challenging and enjoyable learning through a range of sporting activities including; invasion games, net & wall games, strike and field games, gymnastics, dance, swimming and outdoor & adventure.
• Crosscountry is a part of the school culture and it is something that the children take great pride in when representing their school. They complete training runs to
• The long term plan sets out the PE units which are to be taught throughout the year and ensures that the requirements of the National Curriculum are fully met. This is met by both Go Active and the Class Teacher.
• Pupils participate in two high quality PE lessons each week, covering two sporting disciplines every half term. In addition, children are encouraged to participate in the varied range of extracurricular activities. These activities change on a half-termly basis.
• Children are invited to attend competitive sporting events within the local area. This is an inclusive approach which endeavours to encourage not only physical development but also mental wellbeing. These events also develop teamwork and leadership skills and are very much enjoyed by the children.
• Each year a small group of Year 5 and 6 children are invited to become Sports Leaders for the school. They develop into sporting role models for the younger children, assisting with activities, our annual Sports day and any other Sporting activities.
• Children participate in workshops covering a variety of sports throughout the year. For example, children were taught over a course of 6 weeks about Cricket through the Chance2Shine programme.
• Children in Year 4/5/6 complete an intensive swimming week in which they learn about life saving skills, dangers of the open sea as well as improve different swimming techniques.

Impact:

We help motivate children to participate in a variety of sports through quality teaching that is both engaging and fun. From our lessons, our children learn to take responsibility for their own health as well as learn how to achieve this. They complete fitness sessions and understand how it benefits them in physically, mentally and emotionally. They is also the success and failures of sporting competition to improve resilience, teamwork and pride. We equip our children with the necessary skills to enable them to love sport, not just in the short term but long term.

We help motivate children to participate in a variety of sports through quality teaching that is both engaging and fun. From our lessons, our children learn to take responsibility for their own health as well as learn how to achieve this. They complete fitness sessions and understand how it benefits them in physically, mentally and emotionally. They is also the success and failures of sporting competition to improve resilience, teamwork and pride. We equip our children with the necessary skills to enable them to love sport, not just in the short term but long term.

The Curriculum Leader for PE is: David Finnimore

Physical Education Progression of Skills