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P.E.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Physical Education at Barrow Hall has always been of a high standard. Children participate enthusiastically in both lessons and after-school activities.
We offer a broad range of curriculum areas in PE, such as dance, swimming, gymnastics, games, rugby, cricket, athletics, football and netball. We also offer a wide variety of after-school clubs including aerobics, 5-a-side football, tennis and rugby, all of which are very popular and often over-subscribed. We will continue to aim to provide high quality physical education for all children.
Below is a brief summary of what the aims and purposes of PE are and what children at both Key Stages should be achieving
Aims and purposes
PE offers opportunities for children to:
- Become skilful and intelligent performers
- Acquire and develop skills, performing with increasing physical competence and confidence, in a range of physical activities and contexts
- Learn how to select and apply skills, tactics and compositional ideas to suit activities that need different approaches and ways of thinking
- Develop their ideas in a creative way
- Set targets for themselves and compete against others, individually and as team members
- Understand what it takes to persevere, succeed and acknowledge others' success
- Respond to a variety of challenges in a range of physical contexts and environments
- Take the initiative, lead activity and focus on improving aspects of their own performance
- Discover their own aptitudes and preferences for different activities
- Make informed decisions about the importance of exercise in their lives
- Develop positive attitudes to participation in physical activity
Key Stage 1
During key stage 1, children build on their natural enthusiasm for movement, using it to explore and learn about their world. They start to play and work with other children in pairs and small groups. By watching, listening and experimenting with movement and ideas, they develop their skills in movement and their co-ordination, and enjoy expressing and testing themselves in a variety of situations.
Children:
- Find out what they can do as they explore a range of basic skills, actions and ideas, such as running, jumping and turning, throwing
or kicking a ball and responding to music in dance - Learn to practise by repeating what they have done in ways that make it better, such as making movements more controlled, effective or expressive
- Use movement imaginatively to communicate ideas and feelings
- Watch, copy and describe what they and others have practised, to build their awareness of how to improve the way they move and play
- Recognise that their bodies feel different when they run short or longer distances, move slowly or suddenly, and lift heavy objects or floats in water
- Learn to use space safely when they work alone and with others, showing increasing control over their movements
Key Stage 2
During key stage 2, children enjoy being active and using their creativity and imagination in physical activity. They learn new skills, find out how to use them in different ways, and link them to make actions, phrases and sequences of movement. They enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They develop and understanding of how to succeed in different activities and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.
Children:
- Enjoy being active, showing what they can do
- Practise new skills across a range of activities that may include dance, gymnastics, games, swimming, athletic and outdoor and adventurous activities
- Learn consistency by repeating their movements and linking their skills until their performance is clearer, more accurate and controlled over time
- Pace themselves in challenges in activities such as swimming and athletic activities
- Use their creativity in performing dances, making up their own games, planning gymnastic sequences, responding to problem-solving and challenge activities
- Know how to improve aspects of the quality of their work, using information provided by the teacher and
information and communication technology (ICT) opportunities, and increasingly help themselves and perform effectively - Know why activity is important to their health and wellbeing
- Understand the rules and conventions of taking part in different activities safely
Sarah K Wharton
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