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Physical Education Curriculum Rationale

Here at Mab Lane, we believe that all of our children are athletes. We want to build a love for sport and physical activity and for the children to have no limits to what their future wishes are. We want to embed our motto of ‘Only the Best’, and ensure that we provide the children with a rich and engaging curriculum. Many of our children love PE lessons and we aim to provide them with countless opportunities to create fond memories of sport and friendship.

Athletes such as Daniel Purvis, Olympian medallist; Lisa Whiteside, boxing champion, and Jack Hunter-Spivey, a Paralympian table tennis champion, have inspired our children to reach beyond the classroom and try, try again to succeed. Through a range of sporting activities, our children develop key skills as they learn to play individually, in pairs or within a team. This helps to build communication and confidence within our school.

Curriculum Intent

The PE curriculum promotes curiosity and inspires children to succeed and excel in physically demanding activities. Also, it allows children to be ambitious and empowers them to become independent and resilient.

As our mission is to create a rich curriculum accessible to all of our children, we use the National Curriculum as the backbone of our PE curriculum to prepare them for the next chapter. We take a range of children to competitions to compete against other children in the city, this helps to create sportsmanship and a wider understanding of working with other people. Competitions are open to all children, for example, we attended a wheelchair basketball competition against other children in our network to build self-esteem and a love of a different sport.

Every year, we provide a memorable opportunity for children to attend a residential to build upon outdoor and adventurous skills. We hope that this will continue to develop a love for the outdoors that we have embedded from EYFS. We partake in a yearly residential, in summer term to provide children with opportunities to partake in adventurous activities with trained instructors.

At Mab Lane, we want to embed a love of learning within sport, create a space that children want to be physically active within a safe environment that allows them to build upon key skills with their peers.

Curriculum Implementation

Our PE curriculum is carefully crafted to ensure multiple learning opportunities and assessment key milestones guarantee progression and repetition in terms of embedding key learning, knowledge and skills. Regular assessment creates opportunities to observe progression throughout the years. Our curriculum is split into six main strands; invasion skills, dance, gymnastics, fitness, athletics and swimming for KS2. Our aim is to ensure the Year 6 children leave school being able to confidently swim 25 meters and have their water competency certificate.

We work alongside LSSP, who helps to support teachers with CPD opportunities. We use this fantastic resource consistently. Through the company, our EYFS children receive Balancability lessons and Skoot Skool for Year 1 children. All years have opportunities to attend competitions against other schools; the children especially love the opportunity to go to The LFC Academy. This helps to motivate them during lessons, as we encourage our children to focus on the end goal.

We work alongside Mersery Mavericks Basketball, First Kicks Football and this year Beth Tweddle Gymnastics to provide the children with a high quality education in PE. These opportunities are crucial for our children to start being more active, learning new skills and creating fun memories through sport.

Promoting a healthy lifestyle is a key aspect of Mab Lane life; it is embedded throughout the curriculum through PE, Science, PSHE and themed days. We want all children to have a good level of fitness, so teachers plan for daily activity and PE lessons carefully. Parental engagement is vital to our school, we have opportunities for our parents to attend workshops and work alongside their children. Children are proud of their achievements and it is important to share these moments with people that our children love and care for.

Curriculum Impact

Staff use both formative and summative assessment in every PE lessons to inform planning and next steps. Data is inputted onto OTrack and subject leads then analyse progress against the key milestones, which have been mapped out and build upon each year. The planning scheme helps to measure progress and ensure that we are stretching our more able children. We believe that spending our sport spend on specialist coaches has enabled our children to make great progress in a variety of sports regardless of gender, ability and likes.

Our children have various opportunities to be physically active throughout school life and we work alongside families to ensure children are active for at least 30 minutes a day. Our children are not afraid to try new sports and show resilience constantly throughout daily activity. They enjoy athlete visits and show a love for PE, as we have many children attending football matches and cross-country races that outside agencies run.

The staff at Mab Lane are committed to providing an exciting curriculum, which helps to drive our children to be ‘Only the Best’. We want them to have no limits to their ambitions and grow up wanting to be nutritionists, sports athletes or gold medal winners.