Physical Education

At Welford we recognise the importance of PE to the development of the whole child, so our mission statement is:

‘To develop healthy minds, active bodies and a lifelong love of physical activity for EVERYONE at Welford through PE and school sport.’

Intent:

School sports curriculums and programs represent an ideal location for promoting youth development in undeserved areas because they can provide safe, supervised, and structured activities. This is one of the primary ambitions of our PE and sport curriculum. Our intent includes not only physical education programs, but also other extra-curricular activities such as inter-school sports and recreational sport.

It is our aim to provide the children with the opportunity to develop their PE skills (physical and cognitive) through a wide variety of activities beyond the normal primary curriculum. We aim to extend the boundaries of learning with a bespoke PE curriculum that is centred around the needs of the children to ensure that they develop competence in a broad range of physical activities, are physical active for sustained periods, engage in competitive sports and activities and lead healthy, active lives.

At Welford, we aim to develop a love of sport and physical activity in all children and inspire them to become lifelong active people by the time they depart for secondary school. We want all children to develop and improve the fundamental skills needed to access all physical activity such as invasion games, gymnastics or dance.

We follow a curriculum which focuses on skills development in each individual sport and puts health and well-being at the core of learning. Combined with the children’s development of agility, gross motor skills, cognitive thinking, balance, coordination, healthy competition and teamwork, the lessons also provide opportunities for children to develop essential life skills such as resilience, values, fairness, respect, and an appreciation of the importance of a healthy and active lifestyle. Our curriculum is designed to motivate and challenge our pupils in engaging, fun PE lessons that are accessible all, and allow all pupils to achieve their potential.

To enhance our pupils learning, we enter teams into a range of inter-school and intra-school competitions, events and tournaments. We actively promote good sportsmanship. Children learn to care for their bodies both physically and mentally, especially through My Happy Minds, and are encouraged to develop a growing self-awareness, resilience, positive attitude and commitment to self-improvement through setting goals, so that they are ultimately able to influence their own quality of life – many of these are then demonstrated during tournaments and competitions.

We offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities to children across the whole school. These clubs have included: football, table tennis, street dance, dodgeball, cricket and multisport among many others. The children are actively encouraged to be engaged in physical activity for at least 30 minutes of every day with many opportunities made to further this activity.

Implementation:

It is our aim to offer the children skill development through a wide variety of activities beyond the normal primary curriculum. The children participate in two hours of timetabled PE each week; when it is their PE days, they wear their PE kit to school which maximises learning time. The activities covered within the curriculum include Gymnastics, Games, Athletics, Multi-skills, fundamentals, Netball/Basketball, Tennis, Invasion games, and swimming.

We consistently promote good sporting behaviour and attitudes, which are reflected within our school values and rules. The children learn how to care for their bodies both physically and mentally. They are encouraged to develop a growing self-awareness, positive attitudes, growth mind-sets and a commitment to self-improvement through setting goals, so that they are ultimately able to influence their own quality of life. We aim to provide as wide a range of activities as possible to encourage enjoyment, greater activity and involvement, whilst promoting physical fitness, health and cognitive learning through movement, play and exploration.

Our Curriculum Map is on our website along with the key skills children should develop throughout their years within our school in many of the areas we cover.