Physical Education
Welcome to our Physical Education Team
Miss Sinclair, Mrs Stewart, Miss McCallum and Mrs Healy make up our team.
Mrs Stewart (Year 6) loves PE! In particular, she loves Rugby and Cricket. Mrs Stewart is a huge advocator of Girl's football and is incredibly passionate about promoting this in school. She is always found at most sporting events, cheering the children on and keeping them enthusiastic till the end.
Miss Sinclair (Year 6) has a passion for all things PE. She specialised in Primary PE during her Primary Education degree. Outside of school Becky loves playing Netball and challenging herself with other sporting goals such as triathlons and mountain climbing.
Mrs Healy (Year 5) is passionate about swimming and leads the subject across the school. She believes swimming is a vital life skill that every child should have the opportunity to learn. Mrs Healy loves seeing children grow in confidence in the water and is dedicated to ensuring all pupils feel safe, capable and proud of their progress in swimming.
Miss McCallum is passionate about all things sport, with a particular love for gymnastics and cheerleading. As the lead for EYFS and KS1 PE, she is especially enthusiastic about helping children develop their basic motor skills from an early age. She loves seeing young children grow in confidence through movement and always brings energy and encouragement to every PE session.
Intent
Norwood Primary School recognises the value of Physical Education (P.E). We fully believe that we give our children a wide range of sports experience, which they can apply to all areas of sports. Our children are active throughout the week with the Golden Mile, two lessons of P.E and extracurricular activities. Throughout a child’s time at Norwood we encourage all children of differing abilities to represent the school. As a school, we constantly looking at making our children healthier and more active.
We fully adhere to the aims of the National Curriculum (2014) for Physical Education to ensure that all children:
- develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
- are physically active for sustained periods of time
- engage in competitive sports and activities
- lead healthy, active lives
Implementation
P.E is taught at Norwood Primary School as an area of learning in its own right. It is taught two sessions per week
We teach lessons so that children:
- Have fun and experience success in sport
- Have the opportunity to participate in P.E at their own level of development
- Secure and build on a range of skills
- Develop good sporting attitudes
- Understand basic rules
- Experience positive competition
- Learn in a safe environment
- Have a foundation for lifelong physical activity, leaving primary school as physically active.
Impact
P.E is taught as a basis for lifelong learning, where the children have access to a wide range of activities in the belief that if taught well and the children are allowed to succeed, then they will continue to have a physically active life. A high-quality Physical Education curriculum inspires all children to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. At Norwood, we provide opportunities for children to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.
By the end of a pupil’s time in Norwood, we want our children in P.E to:
- Consistently use appropriate technique to complete skills (e.g. throwing, catching, passing, dribbling, hitting) under pressure and in competitive situations.
- To select and use tactics for attacking and defending (e.g. moving into space, using others, marking) to be successful in a game.
- To participate effectively in some competitive team games.
- To move appropriately and effectively to complete a given task (e.g. moving rapidly into space when playing a game or moving gracefully when completing a gymnastics routine).
- To create and complete a longer sequence with control in dance and gym, including using balance, flexibility, strength.
- To identify strengths and weaknesses in my own, and others’, performances comparing past and present performances.
- To take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team.
- To swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres, using a range of strokes effectively (e.g. front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke) and I can perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.
- Know at least three good reasons why exercise is important.
- Know the effects of exercise on the body and the reasons for this.
- Know that activities/practices can be used to improve a skill/performance.