St Augustine's Catholic Primary School

PE in EYFS:

In our Early Years the curriculum lays strong foundations to develop a range of gross and fine motor skills.

Physical development is one of the prime areas of the EYFS curriculum.  Children work towards meeting the Physical Development Early Learning Goals:

-Children show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements.

- Children move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space.

- They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.

The EYFS curriculum provides children lots of opportunities to practice and apply physical skills.  Children are encouraged to be active daily through carefully planned provision inside and outside. Children are encouraged to move in a range of ways, create their own obstacle courses, play with balls, climb, and balance and create big movements to develop their muscle strength. We have balance bikes, scooters and push bikes to develop children’s strength. We use a multi- sensory approach and encourage the children to write in different textures using sticks, big brushes/painting tools, chalks and lots of different medias before we use pencils. Both Nursery and Reception children have a weekly PE lesson focusing on specific skills ensuring children are prepared for a life of activity. 

The progress of physical development is monitored very carefully and any children who are not making sufficient progress would then require extra support. We currently use a range of schemes to help support children with their physical development in EYFS and KS1. These are: Clever Fingers, Madeline Portwood and Developing Hand Skills in EYFS.

Key stage 1

Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations. Pupils should be taught to:

-master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities

- participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending

 -perform dances using simple movement patterns.

Pupils should be taught to:

-use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination

-play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounder’s and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending

-develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance [for example, through athletics and gymnastics]

- perform dances using a range of movement patterns

- take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team

 -compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

Swimming 

In addition to our PE lessons we aim to give the children opportunities to develop taught skills in a competitive  way.  This might be through taking part in external or internal competitions.  This allows children to apply taught skills but also gives them the chnace to work as a team, demonstrate fair play and good sportsman ship. Below our some of the comepitions we have been involved in. We hope to take part in lots more competions this year. 

Alongside all of our enriched curriculum, we ensure children's health and well-being is at the forefront of everything we do at St Augustine's.  We also have set  weeks when we focus on health and well-being.  This is a chance to allow the children to engage with new experiences. We also try to engage parents as much as possible.  We have had yoga workshops, bootcamps with parents being involved, cooking workshops, healthy lunch box talks for parents, smoothie bikes, hulla hooping and many other fun things. We promote the importance of healthy eating and a balance diet. All children get the chance to cook/make a healthy meal or snack.  This week is always very succesfull and the children often take the new skills learned and bring them into their daily life at home and school. 

All children get 2 hours of PE weekly but we also aim for children to be as active as possible throughout the school day. We encourage children to take skills they have learned in PE or through enrichment days and practice them at break times and lunch times. Children have a range of equipment out allowing them to create their own games and be active. We also make our lessons fun and engaging with many opportunities to be active. Some examples may be- Shape hunt around the school, phonics games outside, mini- beast hunts, planting/gardening, number games, creating a dance to show an event in History.   In addition, we also have regular breaks to keep children active and engaged throughout the day. We currently use:

-Go Noodle

-Joe wicks active 5

-Wake up and shake up

-Brain gym

Also, we currently offer 3 after- school sporting clubs which we change termly so that all children have a chance to access these.  The clubs change depending on children’s interest. This year we have had: yoga, multi-skills, football, Jolly- Ollys and basketball.