Chesham Bois CE School

PE

PE Intent

We believe the purpose of Physical Education is to develop children’s enjoyment and skill in physical activity and to introduce them to the pleasures of sport. The PE curriculum is delivered through incremental learning with clear starting and end points. Physical Education promotes personal, social, intellectual and physical skills and fosters co-operation, tolerance and self-esteem. Physical activity not only improves health, reduces stress and improves concentration, but also promotes correct physical growth and development. Exercise has a positive influence on academic achievement, emotional stability and interaction with others. Therefore, both teachers and children are aware of its importance. Our school values are evident within lessons, supporting our values of respect, faith and resilience; all being values that are required to work within in a team. We provide the broad and balanced programme of physical education we believe every child should have; with activities designed to be enjoyable, challenging, and achievable. Using a structured PE programme, the children develop their fundamental skills; agility, balance and co-ordination and are given many opportunities to apply these skills in competitive situations, individual and within a team.

The aims of our PE curriculum are:  

• Follow a broad and balanced PE curriculum fulfilling the demands of the National Curriculum, delivering cultural capital to appreciate creativity and achievement.
• To ensure every child moving on to secondary school can swim 25m and has basic water skills.
• Ensure every child has the opportunity to represent CBS in a competitive sports fixture/event.
• To develop the fitness of the individual, by ensuring a good pace in lessons and incorporating fitness activities into physical education lessons as appropriate.
• Develop programmes that meet the needs of all the children, providing equal opportunities – inclusion of SEN and physical disabilities.
• Involve the outside community where possible - e.g. Sports Day - parents, Clubs, Inter-school matches – working alongside other local schools (Primary and Secondary).
• Make allowances for children with disabilities and medical conditions through modified and mini versions of games and practices.
• Provide enjoyable experiences, where positive attitudes of sensitivity, co-operation, competition and tolerance may develop.

Our PE Curriculum, along with PSHE and Science, teaches children about the importance of healthy living and learning about the need for good nutrition. At CBS, we aim for children to develop the necessary knowledge and skills so that they are ready to be successful when continuing physical activity at Secondary school; we work closely with our local secondary schools to understand the provision we must offer for this to occur. Our PE curriculum has a positive impact on their future by developing physically active citizens to benefit their long-term health and well-being.

PE Implementation

At CBS, our PE curriculum is varied, and long-term plans ensure that we meet the requirements of the National Curriculum, using supporting documents from Imoves.

All pupils receive at least two hours of high-quality PE using our limited outside space or school hall.  All children have a weekly PE lesson with our PE Leader who has sports qualifications through various sporting bodies. During these sessions, children receive expert coaching to develop fundamental skills through a variety of activities and games suitable to their key stage. The timetabling of PE has been adapted to lower stress levels and increase concentration. PE is now delivered in one session and the children now come to school in their PE kits. This has allowed more time for progression in lessons, along with increasing concentration as the children have longer to develop their skills each week.

Our PE curriculum is sequenced precisely to ensure progression of knowledge and skills throughout a child’s primary education, thus enabling children to build upon prior experiences and apply these fluently, with confidence. Children also have the opportunity to further these skills at after school sports clubs. At CBS we endeavour to provide a broad range of activities based on children’s interests and new initiatives, whilst also working with parents to identify when a child has an interest and or a clear talent in a specific sport. At CBS, we provide a curriculum that allows for equal opportunities, supporting those that have additional requirements. This is achieved through high quality questioning, adapting the equipment and giving the children different possibilities to set their own challenges within lessons. We strongly believe that every child has at least one sport that they will love and can participate in throughout their school days and beyond; we see it as a responsibility to help each child find that sport.

Cultural capital is evident in lessons/ planning and the Year 5 Sports Leaders; these six children promote sport within the school and represent their fellow students interests and opinions within the PE curriculum. We believe that Cultural capital is having assets that give children the desire to aspire and achieve social mobility whatever their starting point.

Healthy eating, extra curriculum clubs linked to well-being, residential trips and the celebration of sports achievements all add to ensuring the children gain cultural capital.

Inter and intra sports competitions are offered to all children at the school. We are members of a sports league called The Chiltern’s League; this is a group of nine local schools that compete every Thursday in a sporting fixture.  Each half term we compete in a different sport, Mixed Football, Netball, Tag Rugby, Girls Football and Cricket.  Our PE planning for Years 5 and 6 is based around the league, giving the children the best possible chance to compete to their best ability against other schools.  We also arrange ‘friendly’ matches against other schools, allowing all children that attend after school training clubs the chance to represent the school in a competitive match.  Although we enjoy the competitive nature of sport, we also appreciate and encourage the importance of children ‘having a go’ and promote positive experiences of being physically active and not always participate to win. Sports Week encourages inclusion, plus educating the children of alternative games, such as Boccia.

Every year group attends a sporting event at our local Secondary School, Chilterns Hills.  These events are led by Y9 and Y10 students who work with the children to develop their skills in a particular sport whilst having a competitive element added. These events give our children the opportunity to work as a team, represent their school, see for themselves that Secondary School is safe fun place, and most importantly enjoy sport.  These events are fully inclusive, with all children being able to take part.

We have an inclusive approach and value the importance of physical and mental well-being. Children take part in a range of invasion, striking & fielding or net & wall games, we promote imagination and creativity in gymnastics and dance as well as provide opportunities for athletics using both indoor and outdoor environments plus outdoor and adventurous activities.  Whilst we see competitive team and individual sport as a key element of PE at CBS, our manta is to ‘do your best’. We teach this through using a ‘personal best’ barometer for some individual sports.  The children learn that through effort and application they can improve; it doesn’t matter if other children are faster or slower, you can do your ‘personal best’.  This is most evident in the Bucks Schools Cross Country League.  This is an event held four Saturdays per year, with over twenty schools taking part.  Whilst we celebrate success at this event, our emphasis is on recoding the children’s placing and helping them work to beat it next time.

Physical Education is fundamental in developing healthy lifestyles in young people and at CBS we provide a wide array of opportunities to develop this and sporting skills outside of the normal curriculum time. Regular extra-curricular clubs are very popular and offer a wide variety of sports, including Football, Netball, Karate, Tennis, Tag Rugby, Cricket and Athletics.  We also offer a weekly Cross-Country lunch time club.

Playtimes are an important part of our pupils being happy, healthy and ready to learn. We have a well-staffed and equipped playground, a sports field, and a newly designed active trail to provide opportunities for children to develop and improve fundamental skills whilst being active during break and lunchtimes.

To develop leadership and communication skills, children in Year 5 children can apply to become a Sports Leader which is a responsible role in encouraging younger children to learn how to play collaborative games, respecting rules and to be as active as possible during playtimes. Children selected are positive role-models for younger members of the school, organising lunchtime games and assisting with regular inter house sports activities. Our Sports Leaders are in addition to our Year 6 House Captains who also support and encourage physical activity at CBS and the organisation and running of our annual sports day.

PE Impact Statement

To fulfil our vision by inspiring a generation, at CBS, we help motivate children to participate in a variety of sports through quality teaching that is engaging and fun. From our lessons, our children learn to take responsibility for their own health and fitness, many of whom also enjoy the success of competitive sports. We equip our children with the necessary skills and a love for sport. They will hopefully grow up to live happy and healthy lives utilising the skills and knowledge acquired through PE.

See funding impact statement.