Physical Education (PE)
Physical Education (PE) develops pupils’ physical competence and confidence. It promotes physical skill, development and knowledge of the body and provides opportunities for children to be creative, competitive and to face challenges as individuals, in group and in teams.
It is also essential in promoting a positive attitude towards active and healthy lifestyles. Through PE pupils learn how to plan, perform and evaluate their work, enabling them to improve their quality and effectiveness. Through this process, they discover their aptitude, abilities and preferences and how to make choices about getting involved in lifelong physical activity.
Our aims in teaching PE
- To ensure children are confident, safe and enjoy physical activity
- To develop a range of physical skills, strength and stamina
- To develop an ability to select, link and apply skills, tactics and compositional ideas and perform them with control, co-ordination and fluency
- To improve observational skills and the ability to evaluate their own and others work and use this skill to improve performance
- To develop a sense of fair play and sportsmanship
- To cooperate and work successfully/collaboratively with others
- To express ideas in dance form and appreciate the aesthetic qualities of movement
- To motivate and retain a lifelong interest in PE and to recognise the importance of living and maintaining a healthy lifestyle (See link with PSHE guidelines)
The PE and Sport Premium for Primary Schools
For the academic Year September 2017 to July 2018 the school will receive double the funding budget to the last 4 years. We must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport on offer to pupils.
This means we will use the premium to:
1. To develop or add to the PE already in place in school
2. To make improvements now for future pupils
We aim to do meet the curriculum expectations with the help of the Sport Premium Funding by providing:
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- A more inclusive curriculum
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- A growth in traditional and alternative sports
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- Improvements in our partnership work with other schools
- Creating links with other subjects that contribute to pupils’ overall achievement and their greater social, spiritual, moral and cultural skills
The 2018 PE funding report, provides detailed information on how we’re planning to spend the money this year.
Gold Sports Mark Award
School Games Gold 2016/17
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that after a record breaking year of sports, we have hit the Gold! Brookhurst have been awarded the Gold Sports Mark Award for our participation and profile in school sports.
Here are some of the things we have achieved in the 2016/2017 academic year in order to gain the award:
We have:
- Provided all children with two hours of physical education per week
- Provided extra curriculum provision in addition to this e.g. competitions and after school clubs
- Introduced the Marathon Scheme which has engaged at least 80% of children in extracurricular sporting activity every week
- Taken part in 13 different types of sports involving countless competitions within school
- Arranged a house football event
- Arranged for GB athlete Joe Roebuck to inspire the children and deliver lessons
- Taken part in 35 competitions against other schools in the County (3 others in addition to this were rained off!)
- 13 of those competitions had at least two teams taking part
- 9 of those competitions had at least three teams taking part
- Promoted our school sports to parents through regular newsletters, twitter feeds and website updates
- Provided all children with an opportunity to take on leadership roles within PE e.g. leading a warm up or planning a game
- Engaged 20% of our children in leading and managing activities e.g. Sports Day and Marathon leaders
- Opened up a Sports Council
- Utilised local sports coaches to help deliver and promote sports within the school
- Sent staff on training courses
Created and maintained links with 7 local sports clubs
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