PE

 
 

Our Vision and Aims for PE

At Olive Hill, we deliver an engaging physical education (PE) curriculum that is designed to introduce and develop competency in a broad range of competitive and non-competitive physical activities, encourages our children to participate in those physical activities for sustained periods of time and educates them to lead healthy, active lives beyond the school setting.

We believe that the inclusion of PE is essential to ensure a well-rounded education for our children. We therefore strive to engage, motivate and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge, skills and confidence to participate in sport and apply what they have learnt successfully.

Through the teaching of PE, Olive Hill intends to meet National Curriculum requirements by:

  • Enabling children to develop and explore physical skills with increasing control and co-ordination;

  • Encouraging children to work and play with others in a range of group situations;

  • Developing the way children perform skills and apply rules and conventions for different activities;

  • Showing children how to improve the quality and control of their performance;

  • Teaching children to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise (emphasising cross-curricular links with science and SMSC);

  • Encouraging and developing the children’s enjoyment of physical activity through creativity and imagination;

  • Developing an understanding in children of how to succeed in a range of physical activities and how to evaluate their own success;

  • Assessing pupils learning, analyse and interpret the results to inform future planning and lessons.

PE promotes an understanding in children of their bodies in action. It involves thinking, selecting and applying skills and promotes positive attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle whilst meeting a plethora of other important cross-curricular links. Through these lessons, we enable children to make informed choices about physical activities throughout their lives and develop key social and interpersonal skills. Sporting activities require a level of etiquette and respect that we strive to instil in our children.

Pupils are regularly provided with a variety of opportunities to participate in a range of extra-curricular sports clubs and inter-school sporting activities ranging from multi-sports competitions to football and cricket tournaments. All achievements and successes are celebrated together with the rest of the school.

A passion for physical activity is important for us to ignite in our children here at school, where positive attitudes encourage and motivate participation, and a drive to succeed. Through sport, we can embed core values such as respect, cooperation and fairness, and equip them with vital life tools such as leadership, communication and oracy skills.