Primary Curriculum
Physical Education
At Starbank, we have designed our physical education (PE) curriculum with the intent to: maximise children’s physical activity; develop their fundamental movement skills in a range of disciplines and sports; and build confidence and enjoyment in the activities they undertake. Whilst centring our PE curriculum on these essential practical skills, we will also develop important ‘PE life skills’ such as body awareness, teamwork and leadership, in order to equip our children with the PE mindset that will enable them to flourish in future PE learning. Through development of these skills, we also aim to educate children on the importance of physical education and the role it plays in maintaining healthy active lives.
We will deliver a broad and balanced skill-based PE curriculum that:
- Systematically develop the practical skills required for gymnastics, dance, athletics, swimming, invasion games (e.g. hockey), net and wall games (e.g. tennis); and striking and fielding games (e.g. cricket) arching across the whole primary age range.
- Focusses exciting sequences of learning on discrete component skills and applies these to a meaningful composite outcome. For example, in Year 4 gymnastics, children will focus on the component skills of balancing, travelling and rolling, before combining these to create and perform a sequence with a partner.
- Promotes the development of essential PE life skills, such as: the importance of cooling down; body awareness; giving peer feedback; measuring; and leadership.
Our PE curriculum is taught according to the following whole school long term plan:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
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| Nursery | Indoor gymnastics (Building relationship through play, exploring their bodies and their movements) |
Indoor Dance (creating patterns of movement and moving creatively) |
Outdoors OAA (teamwork and communication activities) |
Outdoor Ball skills (hand eye coordination, throwing and catching) |
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| Reception | Indoor Dance – Movement to Music | Indoor Gymnastics – floor (rolls, turns, wider range of jumps and balances) | Indoor Dance (learn and repeat movements, move confidently around a space) | Outdoor Large ball skills | Outdoor Athletics (Throwing for accuracy (at target, to each other, at wickets) | |
| Year 1 Indoor PE | Indoor Multi skills – Balancing, throwing catching |
Indoor Gymnastics – floor (rolls, turns, wider range of jumps and balances) | Indoor Dance (learn and repeat movements, move confidently around a space) | Outdoor Large ball skills | Outdoor Athletics (Throwing for accuracy (at target, to each other, at wickets) | |
| Year 2 Indoor PE | Outdoor Invasion games – foot/stick ball skills basic concepts (football or hockey link) | Indoor Gymnastics – apparatus (jumps and turns across apparatus, performance with a partner) | Indoor Dance (create short pieces with a beginning middle and end, explore changes in rhythm, speed, level and direction) | Outdoor Net/wall games – (tennis link) | Indoor Athletics (jumping from stationary starts, running and jumping) | Outdoor Striking and fielding – basic concepts (hitting with bats /throwing catching, tracking KS1 Rounders format) |
| Year 3 Indoor PE | Indoor Dance – (respond and improvise to a stimuli, on their own and in groups) | Indoor Athletics – Throwing for accuracy, use of over, under and push throw and at targets | Indoor Gymnastics – floor (shapes, balances, travels and form links varying height and speed) | Outdoor Net/wall- Tennis (range of shots, rally) | Outdoor – invasion games Football | Outdoor Striking and Fielding basic concepts – tracking, stopping, catching positions (baseball/cricket link) |
| Year 4 Indoor PE | Indoor Gymnastics – apparatus (apply sequences to different apparatus including matching and mirroring with a partner) | Outdoor Adventurous Activity (OAA) (lead and be led, use maps and symbols, create courses) | Outdoor invasion games –hockey (dribble, push pass) | Indoor Dance (work with others to form motifs and sequences to stimulus) | Outdoor Athletics (Sports Day Practice, running, jumping and combining with hurdles) | Outdoor Invasion games – Basketball/Netball (catching, passing and shooting) |
| Year 5 Indoor PE | Outdoor Striking and fielding – Cricket (over arm throws, positions of backstop and wicket keeper) | Outdoor Invasion games – Hockey (dribbling and passing over distance, rules and positions) | Outdoor Net/wall-Tennis (serving, game situation and rules) |
Indoor Gymnastics – floor (to include fluent movements and pair balances)
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Indoor Dance (express emotion through movement and create pieces to perform)
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Indoor Athletics – running and jumping (running jumps, vertical jumps, hurdles and relay)
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| Year 6 Indoor PE | Outdoor Adventurous Activity (OAA) exploring roles in a group, orienteering and course design. Compass skills and problem solving. |
Outdoor Athletics – throwing (accurately at a target and from a distance). Running (sprint starts and self-setting appropriate pace for distance)
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Outdoor invasion games – Basketball or netball (marking pivoting, dodging and blocking, game rules) |
Indoor Net/Wall- Badminton (types of shots and serves, game situation and rules) |
Indoor Gymnastics – equipment (create sequences to specific timings, create, repeat and improve sequences involving matching and mirroring | Indoor Dance (explore music used for dance and styles of dance from different cultures and counties, compose motifs and select their own music and styles to perform) |
The detailed, sequential development of PE knowledge, skills and understanding is carefully mapped out in our progression map, accessible below. This progression map ensures that teachers are supported to plan lessons that include all learners, of all abilities, allowing skill progression within a particular strand of PE to be fully understood.
Our children are given motivating and inspiring enrichment opportunities and special experiences to embed essential learning in PE. This enrichment is an essential element of our physical education curriculum offer and encompasses both physical activity and school sport. For example, our children experience:
- A range of after school clubs to promote physical activity in a range of sports such as:
- Football
- Dance
- Martial Arts
- Tennis
- Gymnastics
- Inter-school and intra-school competitions in a range of areas.
- Taking part in Multi-skill and Multi-sports festivals
- Visits from outside agencies and athletes to promote sport within and outside of school
- Running of Bikebaility yearly
- Time to move books to promote exercise at home in line with the governments active 30:30 initiative
- Enhanced opportunities for physical activity at break times via:
- Trim trail
- Skills challenges
- Physical activity resources
- Outdoor provision – e.g. using crates, water play
- Sports leadership opportunities including:
- Skills challenge leaders
- Play leaders
- Residential visit to explore the great outdoors and develop skill such as:
- Orienteering
- Problem solving
- Rock climbing
- Rope skills
- communication