Intent 

At St Clement’s Catholic Primary School, we aim to create positive relationships with physical activity for life. We focus on the development of agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning through a unique approach to teaching and learning in PE. We aim to teach PE in order to include, challenge and support EVERY child.

We aim to develop the key abilities (personal, social, physical, creative, cognitive and health and fitness) children need to be successful within PE and Sport and across the curriculum. Our lessons enable our children to become physically literate in the key fundamental movement skills (agility, balance and gross and fine motor skills) and become physically confident about supporting their fitness and health.

Implementation:

Pupils have at least 2 hours of core PE lessons each week in all Key Stages.

We follow the Real PE scheme from Reception to Year 6, which includes Real PE and Real Gym for 1 hour a week and 1 hour of PE with PS Soccer Coaching, who embed the skills taught in PE lessons through games. Teachers use the progression of skills to ensure PE lessons are taught through multi-ability cogs. Teachers use the fundamental movement skills (FUNS) progression to ensure all children develop at their own pace and recognise their own success. Teachers use the ‘Learning nutrition’ document to ensure they cover the 7 areas of a lesson.

Teachers reinforce the expectation that ALL children can adopt a positive attitude to physical activity.

Real PE is a unique, child-centred approach. It transforms how we teach PE to engage and challenge EVERY child in primary school. It focusses on the fundamental movement skills of a child’s physical development, agility and balance.

Real PE develops the whole child. Each term there is a multi-ability focus:

Impact:

• All pupils are included within lessons with high activity levels.
• Teaching is well judged and often imaginative, producing high levels of engagement from all pupils.
• Pupils are working at different and appropriate levels, with interventions personalised to challenge and support all groups.
• Effective and timely review of learning by teachers and pupils is an integral part of all lessons.
• Consistent praise of positive behaviours means pupils have highly positive experiences in the subject and consequently want and expect to do well.
• Less able pupils are supported effectively, and the more able appropriately challenged, so all groups make clear and evidenced progress.
• Pupils have at least 2 hours of core PE lessons each week in all Key Stages with the role of PE and Sport seen as central to creating healthy and active learners.