Physical Education
PE Intent
Through a high quality, safe and challenging PE programme, Walworth School aims to develop successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens who develop as independent enquirers, creative thinkers, reflective learners, team workers, self-managers and effective participators.
It is our intention to build a curriculum that enables children to develop knowledge, skills and vocabulary in a broad range of sporting activities, as well as developing values and transferrable life skills such as tolerance, fairness and respect.
Through enrichment activities and intra-school competitions, we aim to raise the profile of PE and expose our children to sports they may never have had the opportunity to engage with.
Our PE syllabus is based on the National Curriculum with a clear progression structure, which has been planned in order to build on the skills needed to meet the end of Key Stage objectives in the National Curriculum.
Additionally, an imperative element of the curriculum at Walworth School shows a need for healthy life styles, a balanced diet, positive growth mind-set and the resilience to persevere. We are passionate about the need to teach children how to co-operate and collaborate with others, as part of a team, understanding fairness and equity of play to embed life-long values.
PE Implementation
At Walworth School the PE curriculum is taught through the use of external coaches and class teachers following national curriculum guidance. The sessions involving external coaches are used to support the professional development of staff.
Each class has access to two hours of high-quality physical activity every week, made up of quality teaching of PE and active breaks to support the Active 30 agenda.
Each lesson, children are given the opportunity to practise skills in a variety of ways and each lesson builds upon the previous skills, allowing them time to embed it. Different skills are recapped throughout, and across the years; each time they are being built upon, allowing children to know more and remember more. Upper school pupils receive weekly swimming lessons with the aim that by the end of Year 6 all children are able to swim a minimum of 25m unassisted. These lessons run throughout the whole year but alternate between classes, giving the children the opportunity to take part in other sports throughout the year too.
We offer (through Go Well) a wide range of sporting opportunities throughout the school year. Allowing our children to compete with other schools in activities such as cross country, boccia, basketball and OAA. We also seek to provide termly ‘Sport Days’ where children are given chance to have different experiences such as archery, fencing and inspirational speakers (e.g. Alex Dewar)
Through our residential setting children have the opportunity to access further activities such as ice skating, horse riding and go karting.
PE Impact
Our curriculum aims to improve the wellbeing and fitness of all children at Walworth school; not only through the sporting skills taught, but through the underpinning values and disciplines that PE promotes. Through strong links with PHSE we promote the overall well-being and health of each child through teaching about self-discipline and that to be successful you need to take ownership and responsibility of their own health and fitness.
In all classes, children possess a wide range of physical abilities. Whilst recognising this fact, we provide suitable learning opportunities for all children by matching the challenge of the task to the ability of the child. Children at Walworth School make good progress in PE and are eager to participate in all manner of physical activity.
We track progress over time to evaluate the impact of our practice. This means that we look at the practices taking place to determine whether they are appropriate, related to our goals and likely to produce results in the long run. We use lesson observations to see if the pedagogical style matches our expectations.
Formative assessment is used to help teachers plan progression and meet the individual needs of children. Teachers also use an assessment tracking tool (iASEND) to help evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum. This relates to the National Curriculum Programme of Study for PE. This in conjunction with lesson observations will enable the subject lead to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our curriculum.
