PE 

Principles of Physical Education

The teaching of Physical Education at The Galfrid School will enable children to lead healthy, active lives. Through a broad range of sports and physical activities, children will strengthen fundamental movement skills of agility, balance and coordination to develop good throwing, catching, running and jumping skills. Children will be given the opportunity to learn to swim competently and confidently and take part in competitive endeavours. This will lay the foundations of positive and enjoyable participation in regular physical activity so all children will establish healthy habits that will last them a lifetime. Physical Education will support pupils to:
 

• develop good physical skills: throwing, catching, running and jumping. 
• develop good fundamental movements: agility, balance and coordination. 
• play fairly, according to the rules, and apply tactics in games.
• experience competition.  
• experience a broad range of physical activities and sports.
• take part in 2 hours of planned physical activity every week.
• swim competently and confidently over a distance of at least 25 metres using a range of strokes and be able to perform a safe self-rescue in the water.

Physical Education at the Galfrid school: A Roadmap

The Local Context

We follow a whole school framework with progression of small steps within themes. Teaching will cover eleven or twelve different units (covering a broad range of sports and physical activities) each academic year.

We use a combination of resources to support planning:

• The Cambridgeshire Scheme of Work
• Commando Joe’s Framework
• High quality resource packs from governing bodies and trusted sources.

Each unit provides ample opportunities for practising skills and then application of these skills in informal and traditional games.  The curriculum overview indicates the units taught within each year group.  There is sometimes reason to swap units for logistical purposes, but these are the units which should be covered within each academic year.

Here at The Galfrid School, we prioritise the need for all our pupils to be confident in the water, which is why pupils will attend swimming lessons in Year 3, Year 4 and again in Year 6 (if they have not yet met the minimum requirements of the national curriculum).  It is the right of every child to be taught to swim and basic water safety skills.

Click here to view The Galfrid School Physical education Curriculum Overview 
You can find out how we are investing our Sport Premium funding, here