PE

PE at The Links

Curriculum Intent

We want our children to:

Develop a secure knowledge and understanding of the benefits of Physical Education and why it is important to everyday life
Access high quality education that contributes to the impact on physical and mental health well-being

All children will have a minimum of 2 hours high quality Physical Education and sport within a week. Children will also take part in 30 minutes of extra activity within the school day

Access an ambitious, varied, broad and balanced curriculum that enables everyone to progress and achieve their full potential in a stimulating, engaging and challenging learning environment
Promote independence through teaching new skills, progression, creating, performing and evaluating their own success, celebrating these skills
Develop a broad vocabulary of PE language and build upon this throughout units across different year groups and key stages

Curriculum Implementation

How we do this:

Deliver first quality teaching and many CPD opportunities
Key questioning to revisit prior learning, introduce new vocabulary, physical and theory to ensure knowledge is gained
Teach a sequence of high-quality lessons with clear progression skills
Monitor of the quality of teaching through work scrutiny, planning, acquisition of skills and pupil voice
Offer a wide variety of extra-curricular activities and lunch-time clubs – monitoring the take up from these clubs
Active lunchtimes and breaktimes promoted through our Sports Leaders to promote active 60 minutes across school
Attend festivals, events and competitions.
Hold annual Sports Weeks
Developed progression of skills, knowledge and understanding document.
End of Unit assessments

CURRICULUM IMPACT

The impact is:

Gain a wide range of experiences and successes in different sports, extra-curricular clubs and lunchtime clubs
Children to be enthusiastic when talking and taking part in PE and sport in school
Evidence of the progression of skills (Seesaw)
High attainment and progress for all children, supported through relevant intervention.
More children achieve greater depth
Quality evidence of work across school on display and on social media: share with parents and stakeholders
Staff feel more confident at teaching different sports within PE
Continue to be successful at Cluster events, Stockton Finals and Tees Valley Finals

Sports Games Award

Our PE and sport provision has been acknowledged as being extremely high quality and we have previously achieved Bronze and Silver Awards and we have gone on to maintain Gold Mark Awards for the last 5 years! This has shown our commitment to physical activity and competitive school sport. This has been evidenced through our inclusive and exciting PE curriculum, the range of after-school clubs that we offer, our annual Sports Week and the number of competitions that we take part in each year.

This year we are delighted to share that we are going to apply for the prestegious School Games Platinum Mark Awards which is the highest of sporting accolades! We have a very exciting year ahead of sporting activites and events. Watch this space for further information and news!

Sports Week

Every year we take part in National School Sports Week, dedicated to promoting the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of children and young people helping to nurture young talents to reach their full potential.

We invite and attend lots of different sporting experiences so that our children can experience and develop new skills and knowledge of a wide range of activities that are available for them to experience.

Last year we took part in Fencing, Boxercise, Skateboarding, Virtual Reality Football Frenzy, Quiddich, Tennis, Swimming, Inflatables, Climbing Walls, and Football Skills to name a few!

Sports Week

At The Links Primary School, we have designated Sports Leaders who have undergone specific training to be able to organise and deliver activities as well as teach and referee Level 0 and 1 competitions. We also actively promote 30 active minutes every day for every pupil in school as well as 30 minutes outside of school. During these activities and competitions, the Sports Leaders focus on providing opportunities to try new sports, help children prepare for competitions and encourage children who might overwise be inactive to take part in these activities. At the end of every week, the Leaders deliver certificates to winning classes who show enthusiasm, mutual respect and fantastic sportsmanship.