Welcome to our Linden PE page! On this page you will find information about what your child will be learning in this subject, photographs of work that has taken place and links to relevant websites.  We hope that you find this page useful.

What is PE? What is a Physically educated pupil?

At Linden we want all members of our community to develop positive relationships with physical activity for life. This is achieved through the delivery of high-quality physical education which includes, challenges and supports every child and inspires all to succeed and excel in physically-demanding activities. It provides opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their fitness, health and mental well-being. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities will also build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.

‘Ask not what your team mates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your team mates.’
Magic Johnson

We cover the full national curriculum for PE and use national curriculum statements to ensure we cover a broad and balanced curriculum, but essentially, the programme of study is constructed as follows:

For KS1:
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 co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

For KS2:
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. 

Research behind the real PE scheme

Research review series: PE Published 18th March 2022

At Linden, we teach KS1 children to:

 

• Master basic movement (including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities)
• Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
• Perform dances using simple movement patterns

At Linden, we teach KS2 children to:

 

• Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
• Play competitive games
• Apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
• Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance
• Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
• Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges (individually and as part of a team)
• Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best

At Linden, children are physically educated because they can acquire and develop skills

Across the school, this is achieved through:

 

• Modelling how to use equipment effectively for the area of sport being taught
• Learning about tactical strategies and techniques used for attacking and defending
• Providing activities which allow children to practise skills/strategies individually, in pairs and as part of a team for a range of different sports
• Competitive games to allow the children to consolidate and improve the quality of their technique
• Competitive games to improve the children’s ability to link movements
• Children attending breakfast, lunch and afterschool clubs
• Children setting their own personal targets to encourage them to develop skills further
• Focusing on a specific learning behaviour for a unit of work and making clear the steps of progression
• Carrying out baseline assessments as they identify areas for development which become the focus for the 6 week block and then the summative assessment clearly show the impact of the teaching and the progress that has been made
• Tracking pupil participation in clubs, so that those not attending can be offered alternatives that may better meet their needs. This ensures that they have another sporting opportunity, other than PE lessons, to develop their skills
• The promotion of ‘cog’ skills (personal, social, cognitive, creative, physical, health and fitness) through all PE lessons, to help the children to develop a greater understanding of their importance in becoming a better sportsperson. This will allow them to accumulate cultural capital, as they will be able to access the knowledge, behaviours and skills that have been taught and modelled which are highly valued in society

At Linden, children are physically educated because they can select and apply knowledge, skills, tactics and compositional
ideas

Across the school, this is achieved through:

• Modelling how and when specific skills should be used so that they are effective
• Providing activities to allow children to make decisions about which skills/strategies/techniques to apply in order to be more successful
• Children taking part in intra and inter-school competitions for a range of sports
• Children attending breakfast, lunch and afterschool clubs
• Children drawing on their knowledge, behaviours and skills (cultural capital) that they have accumulated to demonstrate good sportsmanship in PE lessons and inter/intra competitions
• Children using the knowledge, behaviours and skills (cultural capital) that they have accumulated during physical education, across the curriculum and into adult life, as they understand their importance in being successful in society

At Linden, children are physically educated because they have an understanding of fitness and health

Across the school, this is achieved through:

• Including a warm-up at the beginning of each session
• Discussing the purpose and importance of warming-up
• Helping the children to understand the link between warm-up activities and the movement that is required in a lesson
• Allowing children to demonstrate their understanding by choosing their own warm-up activities
• Learning the short-term effects of different exercise activities on the body
• Learning how to improve stamina

At Linden, children are physically educated because they can evaluate and improve their performance

Across the school, this is achieved through:

• Children using success criteria to evaluate areas of success and areas for development
• Providing opportunities for children to adapt their performance based on their evaluation
• Using ICT (androids) to record performances so children are able to view themselves and give more effective evaluations
• Attending competitions and discussing their own and the oppositions tactics to enable them to adapt and become a more effective team

REAL PE

Real PE is a structured programme to deliver activities to help children to develop fundamental movement skills ABCs (agility, balance and coordination). They are the building blocks of movement that can be applied to other sporting activities. The structure of the scheme ensures that these physical skills are taught progressively from Reception through to Year 6 to unlock the potential of our learners as well as developing their confidence in their physical abilities. There are 12 FUN stations and two stations are covered each half term.

Secondly, every lesson focuses on a learning behaviour regardless of the scheme that is used to build consistency across every PE lesson that is taught. They are called cogs (personal, social, cognitive, creative, applying physical, health and fitness). There are 6 learning behaviours with 2 being covered every half term. Each learning behaviour is made up of specific skills that have been mapped progressively with benchmarks to show expected progress at the end of Key Stage 1, Lower Key Stage 2 and Upper Key stage 2. 

When the children are taught Leicestershire, Leicester city and Rutland Physical education scheme of work every second week, they will be given the opportunity the apply the fundamental skills and learning behaviour skills that they have developed to a particular sport. A clear link will be established, so that the children are clear on the learning journey on how making progress with basic skills can have a direct impact on their performance on a particular sport.

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