Thanet Primary School

PE develops a child’s knowledge, skill and understanding, so that they can perform with increasing competence and confidence in a range of physical activities. A varied curriculum is in place to support this, with activities including dance, athletics, gymnastics, games, swimming and water safety and outdoor adventure activities.

Physical education promotes an understanding in children of their bodies in action. It involves thinking, selecting and applying skills and promotes positive attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle. Thus we enable children to make informed choices about physical activities throughout their lives.

Through the teaching of PE Thanet Primary School intends to:

Enable children to develop and explore physical skills with increasing control and co-ordination.
Encourage children to work and play with others in a range of group situations.
Develop the way children perform skills and apply rules and conventions for different activities.
Show children how to improve the quality and control of their performance.
Teach children to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise.
Develop the children’s enjoyment of physical activity through creativity and imagination.
Develop an understanding in children of how to succeed in a range of physical activities and how to evaluate their own success.
Assess pupils learning, analyse and interpret the results to inform future planning and lessons.

Teaching of PE in the Foundation Stage:

Pupils within EYFS undertake daily physical exercise within a specialised external play area. They also have use of the fully equipped sports and school hall for structured activities.

Teaching PE in Key Stage 1 and 2:

All pupils from Year 1 to 6 have at least an hours’ worth of planned physical exercise each week.

PE is further supplemented by the use of the Golden Mile – an initiative that we have adopted to encourage pupils to walk, run, skip, hop etc, to increase the amount of physical activity they participate in each day. Teachers can use the Golden Mile as an opportunity to re-energise pupils as well as increasing their physical activity.

Pupils from Year 1 to 6 also have the opportunity for physical activity during morning and lunchtime breaks on one of two well-equipped school yards, stocked with resources.

Year 6 have an annual residential trip during July in which they undertake a series of physical and challenging activities, including: assault course; mid-ropes and high wires.

During the Summer term Sports Days are held for EYFS and KS1/2 covering a range of multi skills activities. The aim is for participation and enjoyment.

Thanet is a member of the Hull Active Schools partnership, therefore we have the opportunity to participate in variety of School Games events held across the city, which introduce a more competitive element into sporting activities.

All our activities are supported by a variety of sports clubs lead by school staff and visiting professionals both at lunchtime and after-school.

As part of the Horizon Academy links have been created between the schools to develop MAT links through inter-school sporting opportunities.

With the recent introduction of Maths of the Day pupils are able to improve their attainment and attitude towards maths through active lesson plans. Cross-curricular links are also generated during Science and PSHCE lessons.

In all class’s children have a wide range of physical ability. Whilst recognising this fact, we provide suitable learning opportunities for all children by matching the challenge of the task to the ability of the child and in doing so raise pupil’s health (considering childhood obesity) and fitness levels, improve skills and develop pupil’s resilience, teamwork and perseverance (school values).

The use of assessment, questionnaires and surveys(pupils and staff) and by talking to children the quality of lessons and confidence in the teaching of PE improves and as a result the enjoyment and positive outcomes increases.