PE
PE at The Bay
At The Bay, our PE curriculum aims to promote healthy living, whilst inspiring children to try new experiences. Alongside this, the most important aspect is to promote a love of learning so that children become lifelong participants in sport. We pride ourselves in giving opportunities to all children, not just the sporting stars.
Intent
Through our PE curriculum, we hope to inspire young athletes and promote a love of active learning. It is key that we encourage our pupils to lead healthy, active lives and that they are open to try new sports and experiences, which will help them to build confidence, social skills and positive habits.
Implementation
Our curriculum is designed to offer variety, enjoyment and challenge for all children. The curriculum aims to give our children exposure to an activity that they will enjoy and hopefully continue throughout their life. Children are always encouraged to take part and play a range of roles within the lesson so that it is inclusive and accessible to all. We offer a range of physical activities before school, active play at break and lunch times, and a range of after school clubs.
In EYFS, we focus on physical development, safety and using expressive arts and design in dance. In KS1, children build upon their fundamental skills and engage in simple competitive situations as well as co-operative activities. In KS2, they broaden and learn to apply these to a range of situations: communicating and working collaboratively with others. They also start to play more competitive games and have opportunities to enter competitions within school and against other schools across the Island. These variety of skills are emphasised within PE lessons through our Get Set 4 PE platform. In addition to this, the School Games Values are promoted throughout each lesson: self-belief, honesty, determination, teamwork, respect & passion.
Impact
The impact of our PE curriculum will be shown through pupil achievement, sporting achievements and most importantly, a pupil’s love of active learning. Our pupils will be continually assessed and monitored through our Get Set 4 PE platform. Some children will access the Gifted & Talented Scheme and others will strive to achieve their ‘Sporting Star’ badges. Specialised clubs and PE sessions will target specific individual needs to boost confidence and develop sportsmanship.
As a whole school, with a great sporting reputation and history, we strive to give our children as many opportunities as possible by entering all of the competitions available to us and offering children the opportunity to represent our school with pride.
As a whole school, with a great sporting reputation and history, we strive to give our children as many opportunities as possible by entering all of the competitions available to us and offering children the opportunity to represent our school with pride.
Curriculum Information
We are delighted to share that we have been awarded the School Games Platinum Mark Award – the highest of sporting accolades! Our PE and sport provision has been acknowledged as being extremely high quality and we have previously achieved the Bronze, Silver and Gold Mark Awards. In order to achieve the Platinum Mark Award, we have had to achieve the Gold Mark standard for five years, demonstrating our commitment to physical activity and com
petitive school sport. This has been evidenced through our inclusive and exciting PE curriculum, in the range of after-school clubs that we offer and the number of competitions that we take part in each year.
From our Sports and Health Leaders, who work with children across the school at break and lunch times, to our PE team who help organise and deliver competitions, this has been a fantastic team effort and is the result of many years of hard work by current and past pupils, as well as clubs and organisations that we work closely with.
Useful Links
Click here to view physical activities at home - Youth Sport Trust website
Click here to view the GetSet4PE parent page
