Curriculum Overview: PE
Curriculum Intent:
At St. Stephen’s Junior, we are committed to a high-quality PE curriculum which will engage, inspire and challenge our pupils whilst equipping them with the knowledge and skills to discover their preferences within sport. We follow a robust and intricately devised curriculum sourced from ‘PE planning.’
To ensure that pupils develop a secure knowledge that they can build on, our PE curriculum is organised into a progression model that teaches the children basic and advanced skills that can be transferred throughout many different sports. It gives all children the opportunity to learn functional skills.
All of these skills will be taught using a sports-based curriculum, in which children will learn and play a variety of different sports throughout the year, as well as engage in Dance and Orienteering. Units will be broken into specific lessons, where the children will learn a focused skill, based around their termly sport or activity. An example of this is as follows:
Progression in learning:
To ensure a progression in the development of knowledge and the important skills associated with PE, we teach PE twice a week one session is led by a professional sports coach and the other is led by the class teacher; focussing on functional and motor skills as well as teamwork and many other skills linked to our school values. They will then build on their understanding of sports to develop specific transferable traits used in sports but also in many other areas of life. The PE curriculum will focus on progressing every pupil at a similar level and lessons will be differentiated and adapted to the needs of all pupils, to ensure that each child makes progress. This curriculum does not focus on sporting ability, instead, it enhances important skills to assist every child to be able to play and master any sport.
An example of this progression is shown below:
| Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
| Rolls | |||
| Crouched forward roll | Forward roll from standing | Forward roll from standing | Forward roll from standing |
| Forward roll from standing | Straddle forward roll | Straddle forward roll | Straddle forward roll |
| Tucked backward roll | Tucked backward roll | Pike forward roll | Pike forward roll |
| Backward roll to straddle | Tucked backward roll | Dive forward roll | |
| Backward roll to straddle | Tucked backward roll | ||
| Backward roll to straddle | |||
| Backward roll to standing pike | |||
| Pike backward roll | |||
| Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
| Jumps | |||
| Straight jump | Straight jump | Straight jump | Straight jump |
| Tuck jump | Tuck jump | Tuck jump | Tuck jump |
| Jumping jack | Jumping jack | Jumping jack | Jumping jack |
| Star jump | Star jump | Star jump | Star jump |
| Straddle jump | Straddle jump | Straddle jump | Straddle jump |
| Pike jump | Pike jump | Pike jump | Pike jump |
| Straight jump half-turn | Straight jump half-turn | Straight jump half-turn | Straight jump half-turn |
| Cat leap | Cat leap | Cat leap | Cat leap |
| Cat leap half-turn | Cat leap half-turn | Cat leap half-turn | |
| Split leap | Split leap | ||
| Stag leap | |||
Click here to see - PE skills progression and planning