Penns Primary School
PHYSICAL EDUCATION AT PENNS PRIMARY
We embed a physical activity culture into our curriculum
Sports Lead: Mr N Greaves
PESSPA - Physical Education, School Sport and Physical Activity
At Penns Primary School, we believe that high quality PE lessons motivate our children, from Reception through to Year 6, to lead happy and healthy lives. We want the children to experience a wide range of activities that help them to develop their health, fitness and mental wellbeing. Through our PE curriculum, we want to inspire all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically and mentally demanding activities. PE provides the children the opportunity to become physically and mentally confident in a way, which supports their health and their levels of fitness. Children are given the opportunities to compete in sport, at various different levels albeit within our school setting or against other schools, furthermore it builds character and it helps them to embed good citizenship values such as fairness and respect.
Our PE Learning Journey
Please find below our learning journey which sequences PE skills from EYFS to beyond KS2. Our learning journey incorporates our characteristics of learning as well as our Penns SMART values. We believe that physical education is more than 'just the physical' it's also about incorporating skills and values which go towards supporting a well-rounded sports person.
ASSESSMENT
How do we know that our children are progressing in PE?
Each child at Penns has a PE passport that details the progression of skills across the PE curriculum. Each child is assessed during assessment week and achieved areas are easily identified. Where a child has not made expected progression, provision is made to ensure this is rectified.
See our pupil passport below
Primary School PE Scorecard Report
Research proves that children who are active lead happier and healthier lives.
The first ten years are crucial, making the quality of your school’s PESSPA pivotal to children leading active lives.
It is only by understanding the current picture of your school’s PESSPA, that you’ll be able to determine how to move forward.
That’s where this scorecard comes in
HOW DOES OUR PE, SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OFFERING MEASURE UP?
We analyse our PE, school sport and physical activity (PESSPA) offering across the DfE's five key indicators.
Active children do better. Research proves that they are happier, healthier and more successful in life and work. The first ten years are crucial, making the quality of your school’s PESSPA pivotal to children leading active lives.
It is only by understanding the current picture of our school’s PESSPA, that we are able to determine how to move forward.
We understand our school’s PESSPA to therefore prosper and make healthy active lives possible.
Some of the activities that we offer at Penns Primary
Penns pupils have access to daily skipping sessions with 'Dan the Skipping Man' (see link below)
The Daily Mile
Who takes part? Years 4, 5 and 6
Developed by teachers for teachers, Maths on the Move (MOTM) is a unique and innovative programme aligned with the national curriculum. Using physically active learning, MOTM enhances children’s confidence and attainment in maths.
Click on the link to download an example of a number trail for years 5 and 6
BALANCE BIKE TRAINING
Health for Life
Our Health for life programme has 5 objectives:
1. to develop a sustainable healthy lifestyle culture throughout our school
2. to make a measurable improvement in the diet of school children through cooking and healthy eating activities
3. to engage our pupils in growing food to increase their knowledge and understanding of its links with a healthy lifestyle
4. to enable schools to make a measurable improvement in the physical activity of pupils through improved use of school grounds in order to promote a healthy lifestyle
5. to enable our parents/carers to undertsns the programme's key messages and, in particular, to engage selected parents in Family Learning
