Physical Education

"Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds."

- Daley Thompson

Intent

We believe it is our duty to provide our pupils with the skills, knowledge, understanding and experiences, which will enable our pupils to lead healthy, well-balanced and active lifestyles. This will be achieved through carefully planned and sequenced units of work in a deliberately wide range of activities, enriching experiences, competitive sporting opportunities and extracurricular clubs.

We believe this provision provides the scope to meet the needs of all pupils and develop not only technical skills and understanding, but also the attributes of resilience, collaboration and confidence.

Knowledge Organisers

Implementation

Units of work build on previous learning and provide the foundation for future acquisition. Pupils are able to become increasingly independent in performance and planning for their own improvement through the practices and tasks they are set.

Lessons are delivered by a team of passionate and enthusiastic PE staff, with extensive experience and qualifications in teaching and coaching sports. They work closely with class teachers to ensure teaching is tailored to the needs of classes and pupils and where possible, appropriate cross-curricular links reinforce learning between subjects. 

Pupils benefit enormously from the range of enriching experiences provided; these include PGL outdoor activity residentials, water sports and mountain biking, which the school pays for to ensure that all can take part.

Wide ranging competitive sports opportunities are planned throughout the year via in-house and inter-school competitions. Amongst others, these include our annual, “Inclusive Sportsday” and participation in tournaments run by local associations such as Liverpool Schools Athletics and Liverpool School Sports Partnership.

Extracurricular clubs are provided in a multitude of sports which are timetabled throughout the year to ensure seasonality and reflect the variety of pupils’ interest; these include boxing, football, dance and cricket and are provided free of charge to encourage maximal participation.

Impact

We use several strategies to measure the impact of our teaching and the curriculum we provide. These inform future planning and provision:

• Formative assessment takes place in every PE lesson assessment and identifies strengths and areas for improvement, which generates individual targets. Feedback and guidance on how to improve is given as close to the point of learning as possible. 

• Pupil voice enables us to improve our provision of curriculum, competitive sports, enriching activities and clubs even further. As a result of pupil voice, we have provided a morning football club, a girls’ only football club, entered a competition for children with additional needs, put on extra lessons for children who are attending ski trips and entered competitions for sports that are outside of our curriculum. 

• PE Sport Premium Strategy and Impact Report completed each year by Subject Lead and approved by SLT and SIL

P.E. Data

At entry, all pupils complete a low-stakes baseline in each subject, assessing baseline knowledge and understanding. Throughout the year, pupils revisit and revise key content using the same format. A final end-of-year/topic assessment evaluates retention.  Results inform teacher judgements and subject leader evaluations of curriculum impact. Scores are used to monitor the effectiveness of the curriculum, identify gaps in key components and support accurate teacher assessment of attainment and progress.