Our Curriculum Drivers are to promote resilience, develop communication and ensure all pupils have access to all learning possibilities both in and out of the classroom.
Intent
Our Curriculum Intent is for pupils to know more, do more and learn more.
At John Scurr we aim to inspire all children to develop a love of physical activity and sport. Through good physical education, whole school values and a whole child approach, we aim to nurture confident, resilient children who will strive for their personal best.
We listen to our children’s wants and needs and provide them with a range of active experiences and clubs. We want to aid our children in obtaining the values and skills to celebrate and respect the success of others, as well as modestly celebrating their own successes. We aim to ensure that our delivery of physical education allows all children to have the skills and mindset to leave primary school with the capabilities to be successful in their sporting challenges and active lifestyles at secondary school and beyond.
We strive to educate both our children and families to develop a greater understanding on how to live healthy lifestyles and make healthy choices. We are dedicated to ensuring healthy minds, as well as bodies and will continue to support our children’s well-being. We have links with local clubs and partnerships within our community to ensure the children and families receive the support and knowledge they need.
What Do We Teach?
| Autumn | Spring | Summer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| EYFS | Fundamentals | Gymnastics Dance | Ball Skills Games |
| Year 1 | Fundamentals Team Building | Target Games Net and Wall | Ball Skills Athletics |
| Year 2 | Fitness Gymnastics | Invasion Striking and Fielding | Sending and Receiving Athletics |
| Year 3 | Fundamentals Football | Gymnastics Basketball | Tennis Athletics |
| Year 4 | Fitness Football | Gymnastics Basketball | Hockey Athletics |
| Year 5 | Fitness Football | Gymnastics Basketball | Tennis Athletics |
| Year 6 | Fitness Football | Gymnastics Basketball | Hockey Athletics |
How Do Pupils Learn?
We use the scheme Get Set 4 PE. The lesson plans and schemes of work have been written with careful consideration of the aims of the National Curriculum, to ensure that children are given a wealth of opportunities to develop their physical skills as well as developing the whole child.
The lessons provide progressive activities that are designed to inspire and engage the pupils, while also allowing them to explore, develop skills and embed knowledge. Each year the children are able to revisit an area where they are able to use their retrieval practices to remember the skills that they had learnt previously and build upon them.
Differentiation tasks provide activities with simple changes to appropriately challenge all of our pupils.
How Do We Know What Children Have Learned?
- Questioning
- Pupil book study
- talking to teachers
- Low stakes ‘drop-in’ observations
- Quizzing and retrieval practise
- Feedback and marking
- Progress in book matches the curriculum intent