At Trimley St.Mary primary school, we take pride in giving our children the ability to acquire new knowledge and skills exceptionally well and develop an in-depth understanding of PE. We encourage our children to have the willingness to practise skills in a wide range of different activities and situations, alone, in small groups and in teams. In addition, we strive to ensure that our children apply these skills learnt in chosen activities to achieve high levels of performance.
Through our curriculum, we explore healthy lifestyles and how they can be achieved by eating sensibly, avoiding smoking, drugs and alcohol and exercising regularly. We promote the importance of remaining physically active for sustained periods of time to help children understand the long-term benefits of exercise and their well-being.
We develop our children into responsible young leaders in sport and give them the opportunity to improve, motivate and instil excellent sporting attitudes in themselves and their peers. Furthermore, we endeavour to promote a keen interest in PE and willingness to participate eagerly in every lesson, whilst sustaining highly positive attitudes to make informed choices about engaging fully in extra-curricular sport.
Once children reach upper KS2, they are encouraged to develop their swimming ability and strive to swim at least 25 metres before they reach the end of Year 6. We also ensure that we develop their knowledge of how to remain safe in and around the water.
Through our PE sessions we will develop:-
• The ability to acquire new knowledge and skills exceptionally well and develop an in-depth understanding of PE.
• The willingness to practise skills in a wide range of different activities and situations, alone, in small groups and in teams and to apply these skills in chosen activities to achieve exceptionally high levels of performance.
• High levels of physical fitness.
• An understanding of following a healthy lifestyle, achieved by eating sensibly and exercising regularly.
• The ability to remain physically active for sustained periods of time and an understanding of the importance of this in promoting long-term health and well-being.
• The ability to take the initiative and become excellent young leaders, organising and officiating, and evaluating what needs to be done to improve, and motivating and instilling excellent sporting attitudes in others.
• Exceptional levels of originality, imagination and creativity in their techniques, tactics and choreography, knowledge of how to improve their own and others’ performance and the ability to work independently for extended periods of time without the need of guidance or support.
• A keen interest in PE. A willingness to participate eagerly in every lesson, highly positive attitudes and the ability to make informed choices about engaging fully in extra-curricular sport.
• The ability to swim at least 25 metres before the end of Year 6 and knowledge of how to remain safe in and around water.