At The Colleton, we recognise the importance that physical activity has across all areas of learning as well as for mental wellbeing and the role it has to play in promoting long term healthy life styles. The intent of our PE curriculum is to provide good quality PE lessons that are built on a sequence of skills. We strive to inspire the children through fun and engaging PE lessons that are enjoyable, challenging and accessible, allowing them to take risks whilst teaching them how to stay safe. This will enable every child to succeed, achieve their potential and to develop a love of sport that they will continue beyond their primary school years.
It is our aim that The Colleton children
Children at The Colleton take part in two PE sessions each week, as well as a daily run around where they try to improve on their personal best and build up their stamina with the aim of being able to run a mile. The structure of our PE curriculum allows children to develop skills through the 5 areas of sport, gymnastics, athletics, games, dance and swimming, by building on previously acquired skills, knowledge and vocabulary. Within PE lessons, children will also have the opportunity to adopt different roles including performer, coach, umpire and leader. They will be able to celebrate, evaluate and improve on their personal and team successes and skills.
We believe that is it important to give children as many opportunities as possible to be physically active and to be moving in as many lessons across all areas of the curriculum. Through cross curricular activities such as Forest School and geography, the children will take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team.
Swimming is taught to every year to every year group during the summer term and for Years 1 to 6, also at the beginning of the autumn term in our school pool. During their time at The Colleton, our children start by developing their water confidence and build up to swimming competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres by the end of Year 6 using a range of strokes effectively. They are also taught about the importance of water safety and learn to perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations in Older Team.
Our PE Golden Threads weave through all aspects of PE and physical development. These are to develop
By the time our children leave us in Year 6, they will have had the opportunity to develop their skills in a range of different sports and activities in their PE lessons and are able to show their positive attitudes, perseverance and resilience.
Our children are able to:
Progress in PE will be assessed through formative assessment by the teachers against the intended objectives for lessons to track progress and through their progressive development of skills. The subject leader regularly reviews the teaching and learning of PE through discussion with pupils and colleagues during learning walks to ensure the highest possible outcomes for all children.
We are lucky enough to have our own swimming pool. All of our children have weekly swimming lessons in the Summer term, from Foundation upwards.
All of our Year 6 children meet the expected standard in the PE curriculum for swimming.
