At All Saints, we recognise the value and impact of high quality PE and school sport which we offer the pupils in our care. P.E. and school sport play a vital part in living out our values of Love, Hope and Community on a daily basis. We aim to provide children with the opportunities to challenge themselves, inspire and be inspired, be active, collaborate, compete and lead others. Here at All Saints, we believe that providing pupils with high quality sporting opportunities will:

• Instil a love of being active which will stay with our pupils through adulthood
• Build a sense of belonging and cooperation through team work; to learn to cope with success and failure as a team and build resilience – foster teamwork in our community
• Enable pupils to practise mutual respect and responsibility; taking turns and sharing
• Help themselves and others to improve and achieve goals – understand that practice can lead to progress
• Show pupils how to have fun in physical activity, take on different roles, be active and healthy

We follow the National Curriculum for PE and this is implemented through three key pillars:

• Skills, strategies and tactics (Head)
• Healthy Participation (Heart)
• Motor Competence (Hands)

In KS1, we focus on securing fundamental skills so that these are progressive and can then be built on and developed further as children move through KS2.

We give the children in our care the opportunity to experience a range of sporting and PE experiences such as:

• whole school skipping days, cross country festival, Schools’ Common Wealth Games, swimming gala
• inclusive sports days which include team activities as well as races where all can access and achieve
• the use of the local stadium and running track to provide high quality provision and exposure to sporting activities such as tri-golf and new age curling
• Woodland school outdoor activity

We aim for our PE curriculum to inspire all children to find a sport or physical activity that they enjoy – for them to recognise that they can develop their skills and knowledge over time and improve their personal best.

The impact of our PE curriculum is assessed against the three pillars and builds up a picture of the child’s progress across a unit of work and across the year. Pupil voice is also key to how children feel they have improved, what they have enjoyed and their next goals.