The teaching of Physical Education at Laurel Avenue Community Primary, is designed to aid teachers to help pupils form a Physical Education schema within their long-term memories. Our aims are to ensure that our pupils experience a wide breadth of study and have, by the end of each key stage, long-term memory of an ambitious body of fundamental movement knowledge and the semantic knowledge of tactics and strategy, leadership, personal and social and vocabulary.
As a school we map
• Breadth of study - the topics the pupils will study
• One Threshold Concept in PE - the big idea in Physical Education that pupils will explore through every topic (develop practical skills in order to participate, compete and lead a healthy lifestyle).
• Milestones - the goals that pupils should reach to show they are meeting the expectations of the curriculum.
Milestones are the goals that pupils are aiming for; through developing a strong schema based on knowledge, vocabulary and tasks pupils progress through the milestones.
Within the Physical Education curriculum, we use 5 knowledge categories that enable pupils to identify common themes and make links throughout different areas of Physical Education. The knowledge categories are: movement, tactics and strategy, personal and social, leadership and healthy lifestyle.
Pupils with SEND are given full access to the Physical Education curriculum. Teachers use a range of strategies to enable all pupils to become successful during Physical Education sessions including:
• Learning is differentiated to support the needs of every child.
• Every child encouraged to find ‘their’ sport through a varied curriculum and extracurricular activities
• Clear and consistent communication between sports coach and class teacher
• Competition tracker - ensure all children have chance to compete competitively.