Physical Education (PE)
At Gilmour Primary School, we acknowledge the vital role that physical education (PE) plays in promoting both the physical and mental health of our students. Our goal is for every pupil to leave our school equipped with the skills and enthusiasm necessary to foster a lifelong love for sport, enabling them to reap the health benefits and social opportunities that come from an active lifestyle.
Through participation in sports, children develop essential personal qualities that are transferable across all aspects of their lives and learning, directly linking to our core school values:
- Ambition: Encouraging students to set goals, strive for personal bests, and develop high expectations for their physical performance.
- Resilience: Building the mental fortitude to cope with challenge, learn from mistakes, and persist when skills are difficult to master.
- Enjoyment: Ensuring a positive and engaging experience in physical activity, fostering a fun, active approach to life.
- Appreciation: Developing respect for rules, officials, opponents, teammates, and the cultural role of sport.
Curriculum Design and Progression
Our curriculum is built upon a high-quality framework that ensures every child receives a secure foundation for their next phase of learning. We empower staff to plan, teach, adapt, and track progress with confidence, ensuring our provision is much more than a Scheme of Work.
- National Curriculum Alignment: Through our scheme. We guarantee coverage of the Early Learning Goals, KS1, and KS2 National Curriculum outcomes through dynamic curriculum mapping. This ensures a clear, structured, and memorable learning journey for every child.
- Cross-Curricular Connections: We make meaningful connections between subjects, such as linking Science and PE, to help students understand the importance of healthy living and the role of physical activity in their lives, promoting holistic well-being.
- Competition: To further promote our values of ambition, enjoyment, and resilience, competition is actively used through our house teams across all sports. Additionally, every child competes in our annual Sports Day, and all Key Stage 2 pupils participate in a Swimming Gala event.
Gilmour Primary School is committed to providing a high standard of physical activity for all pupils:
- Quality and Quantity: We are committed to providing all pupils with a minimum of two hours of high-quality, well-structured PE each week, promoting a healthy and active lifestyle for every child.
- Inclusivity and Uniqueness: Our PE program is inclusive, ensuring that all students, regardless of age, gender, or ability, have access to activities and clubs both during and after school hours. We celebrate that every child is unique, ensuring adaptions allows all pupils to participate successfully and achieve personal bests.
- Extra-Curricular Opportunities: We provide a rich extra-curricular offer of clubs and competitions/performances. We actively track attendance and pupil involvement across these opportunities to maximise our impact and ensure wide participation in sport and physical activity, further driving our commitment to enjoyment.
We believe in supporting our pupils’ interests beyond the school gates. We encourage pupils to pursue their sporting interests outside of school and provide guidance on community sports opportunities, helping to establish an active pathway that extends into their wider lives and future. Children are signposted to local sports clubs to facilitate continued engagement and skill development outside of school hours. Furthermore, we actively support our more elite athletes by providing guidance and pathways towards City and County team representation, ensuring their ambition and talent are nurtured at the highest level.
Early Years Foundation Stage
Children show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
Key Stage 1
Pupils should develop Fundamental Movement Skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and cooperative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| Reception | Introduction to PE | Fundamentals | Dance | Gymnastics | Games | |
| Year 1 | Fundamentals Ball Skills | Dance Sending and Receiving | Dance Target Games | Gymnastics Invasion Games | Gymnastics Net and Wall Games | Athletics Striking and Fielding Games |
| Year 2 | Fundamentals Ball Skills | Dance Sending and Receiving | Dance Target Games | Gymnastics Invasion Games | Gymnastics Net and Wall Games | Athletics Striking and Fielding Games |
Key Stage 2
Pupils should continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They should develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| KS2 | Throwing and Catching | Throwing and Catching | Dance and Gymnastics | Throwing and Catching | Athletics | Hitting and Striking |
| Bench Ball Mat Ball Dodgeball | Target Netball Basketball | Rhythmic movements | Handball Tag Rugby | Sports day events Intra School Competition | Cricket, Rounders, Hockey & Tennis | |
| Swimming | Year 4 & 5 | Year 3 & 6 | ||||
| Assessment | ESAA Assessments | ESAA Evaluation and Progression Assessment | ||||
Swimming:
Swimming and water safety is a statutory element of the national curriculum for physical education in England. This means that every 11-year old child should leave primary school with the skills to keep themselves safe while enjoying swimming with friends and family.
Swimming is the only sport to be included within the national curriculum physical education programme of study. All primary schools must provide swimming and water safety lessons in either Key Stage 1 or 2. At Gilmour Primary we pride ourselves on offering swimming lessons to all classes throughout KS2.
Each pupil is required to be able to do the following:
- Perform safe self-rescue in different water based situations
- Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- Use a range of strokes effectively, for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke.
