Physical education
At Barnfield we aim to provide a wide range of high quality sport and physical activities to engage all children. Physical education is an important factor in regards to children’s well-being, both mentally and physically.
Intent
We deliver high quality teaching and learning opportunities and develop our children’s skills as well as encouraging fitness, good health and emotional well-being.
We aim for all our children to have a keen interest in P.E and a willingness to participate in a variety of well-planned activities. We provide them with many different opportunities to become physically confident. It is our aim to inspire our pupils to be involved in healthy physical activities including competitive sport, non-competitive sport and other physical activities to help build character and embed our school principles:
Ambitious Me Creative Me Curious Me Empathetic Me Healthy Me
Children will learn how to collaborate and be part of a team, as well as gaining key problem-saving skills.
Implementation
Our curriculum is designed to ensure that every child can flourish. The children take part in a variety of activities including, basketball, netball, cricket, hockey, gymnastics, athletics, dance, rounders and swimming. We deliver this by teaching the National Curriculum objectives along with our scheme of work “Complete PE” which is used as a resource to support progression and development of skills. The children receive two PE lessons a week, one is delivered by a sports coach and the other by the class teacher. They produce varied and engaging lessons which allow children to become confident, resilient learners, work in a team, build effective physical skills and to have an awareness of a healthy lifestyle. The skill focus changes across the year groups to ensure progression.
Children in Year 4 receive 2 weeks’ worth of daily swimming lessons to ensure that they can achieve the national expectation of being able to swim 25 metres unaided.
We are a school within the Barnet Partnership of School Sports and actively engage in a variety of sporting tournaments and leagues competing against other Barnet schools and taking part in festivals such as the Barnet Dance Festival. We take part in a variety of SEND events, ensuring that competitive sport is available to all children at Barnfield.
We have increased the number of clubs on offer this year. We are proud of the variety of extra-curricular activities which range from badminton and football to Zumba and badminton.
Impact
We ensure that all our children receive the essential skills and knowledge to live a happy and healthy lifestyle and make good and wise choices. We use the PE Premium effectively to ensure our children are well equipped, having developed a positive attitude to exercise and keeping fit and well. Teachers’ subject knowledge is developed through CPD opportunities and a clear and supportive scheme of work. Pupils enjoy the PE curriculum and having the opportunity to take part in competitive sporting events.
Useful documents
PE Curriculum Map
Barnfield Primary School Overview PE
Complete PE Foundation and KS1 Progression map