PE

Intent

At Starcross Primary School, we want every child to leave Starcross with the skills of an early sportsperson, but also to have experienced a challenging, fun and varied sport and physical education programme.

We are determined that:

  • Every child – regardless of physical ability or prior experience – will develop key physical, mental and emotional skills, through high-quality teaching and learning.
  • Every child develops skills and attributes such as teamwork, honesty, resilience, respect, passion, self-belief and determination.
  • Every child has the opportunity to take part in a range of extracurricular sport and PE events and activities, both within our school and taking part with – and competing against – other local schools.
  • Every child learns how to lead a healthy lifestyle and the importance of physical exercise as a part of this.
  • Every child learns to keep themselves safe during physical activity, and learns to swim through a taught programme of lessons each year in our on-site pool.
Implementation

At Starcross Primary School, we access extracurricular opportunities and CPD for staff through our membership of the South Dartmoor School Sports Partnership. These opportunities include:

  • Taking part in inter-school competitions and festivals.
  • Regular PE Impact Days provided by specialist PE teachers. These can include lesson model work with individual staff, broader CPD on particular sports, supporting junior playleaders or lunchtime staff, etc.
  • Access to staff training and resources.

The children are encouraged to take part in extracurricular activities, both through after-school and lunchtime clubs and inter-school events in the local area. All children will take part in Outdoor and Adventurous Activity both through taught PE units as part of the programme, and through residential trips.

We use the Arena PE schemes of work as the basis for our planning. Full details, schemes of work and lesson plans can be found here: www.arena-schools.co.uk .

Each class will have two high-quality and teacher-led timetabled PE lessons per week, and will follow two PE units per half term. Teachers may use their judgement as to how to timetable each unit’s lessons. Classes may also have more frequent short physical activity episodes.

Please click here to see our PE skills progression document.