Physical Education

Vital for social, emotional, economic and physical development

Physical health and wellbeing contributes to children’s social, emotional, economic and physical development.

What does PE look like at Hautes capelles?

  1. Engagement

Pupils are engaged in activity quickly in a good PE lesson.

  • Sets the tone for learning
  • More time to achieve outcomes
  • Fewer incidents of disruptive behaviour
  • Increased time on activity = increased pupils’ fitness

If an activity needs a lengthier explanation, complete a quick/reactive warm up task first & follow with the explanation of the lesson objectives while children are catching their breath

2. Differentiation

All children will be catered for to achieve the objective of the lesson.

  • STEP method of differentiation: space, task, equipment, people. By changing one or more elements every activity can be differentiated for all learners.
  • Goal is for all learners to reach the same objective, but the STEPs to get there should be differentiated based on ‘hand, head, heart’ principles.
  • Hand - physical ability.
    Head - cognitive understanding of activity.
    Heart - emotional readiness

3. Progress

All children should make progress in every lesson.

  • Progress can be measured in different ways and does not always mean physical proficiency i.e. engagement, competition, working well with others, developing a deeper understanding of healthy/active lifestyles.
  • Progress is acknowledged in every lesson.
  • Progress steps are indicated in planning.

4 Links

Links can be drawn between activities and lessons.

  • Pupils can draw links from activities they have previously learned (following modelled examples by teachers).
  • Children are aware of and can draw parallels of fundamental movement skills.
  • Links of learning in PE reflect on other elements of leading healthy/active lifestyles

5. Time

Children must be given time in the lesson to ‘try, fail, repeat and refine’.

  • 20% teacher input v 80% activity time.
  • Teacher input does not always address the whole class. Children are spoken to on an individual basis where necessary with higher input given to those who need it.
  • Feedback provided through peer demonstrations and discussions and by giving children time to trial and error.
  • If needed to address the whole class, the teacher should use a ‘stop, stand still’ approach, rather than seated explanations

​​​​​​​6 Reflection

Time is given at the end of the lesson to reflect on the learning objectives and how they were achieved and how the skill will progress in the future. 

  • How does their body feel after the lesson? Heart/muscles/lungs/head.
  • What will they aim to achieve next time?

 

Physical Education : 20 fun games
See how Physical Education fits into the overall Primary Curriculum