At Woodsetts Primary, we recognise the fundamental role that regular physical activity plays in children’s lives. As part of our commitment to ensure that all children lead a healthy lifestyle, active learning is at the centre of our pedagogy. We believe every child should have the opportunity to take part in physical activity daily and become more physically confident and competent. We hope that, through all the sporting opportunities and physical activity we offer, the children will potentially develop a love and passion for sport and continue out of school and into their later lives.

Health and Wellbeing is one of our founding PSHE Pillars that our curriculum is built on.

We believe that children should develop knowledge of:

• the importance of leading a healthy, active lifestyle.
• the relevant rules, tactics, techniques and equipment.
• how to improve their own and others’ performance
• successful experts in their field.

They should develop the essential skills of:

• coordinate movements, balance and develop agility.
• sequence and link movements with control.
• run, jump, throw, catch and strike.
• use equipment with control and coordination to participate in competitive games.
• swim a short distance using a range of strokes.

At Woodsetts Primary we plan for P.E using the National Curriculum objectives to ensure a robust and thorough approach. This has been used to inform our progressive skills and knowledge grid.

Teachers follow the Long Term Plan and have access to sequential medium term planning which guarantees a whole school progressive outlook. Additionally, before each new unit of work is introduced, staff study their allocated technical vocabulary as well as sport specific vocabulary found within the P.E Knowledge and Skills document. We think it is crucial for children to be involved in a range of sporting activities, therefore our Long Term Plan is tailored in a way children get the opportunity to try a variety of sports both within the curriculum and throughout the different sporting experiences. At Woodsetts Primary we are lucky to have links with a variety of sporting experts from our secondary schools who deliver some of the lessons to the children and offer incredible CPD for staff. We also have our resident sports expert Mr Ross who is able to support our children and staff.

Sporting experiences. At Woodsetts, we believe it is vital that every child's journey is a magical, exciting time which they cherish and remember. To support this notion, now that Covid restrictions allow, we plan to invite in unique sporting specialists to deliver sessions for all pupils across our school. Some of these exciting WOW days will include events such as: skateboarding, taekwondo, fencing and hula-hooping

Sports Leaders. It is of paramount importance that we help build sporting leaders at Woodsetts Primary. We aim to offer a variety of children the opportunity to lead sporting activities, organise games and events and learn to lead by example. By empathising leadership, we aim for children to learn the importance of communication, collaboration, perseverance and a respect for rules. We plan to work with a specialist coach from Dinnington High to help deliver this training with our children.

Competitive Sport. Intra-School Tournaments - All KS1 and KS2 children will now take part in sport specific competitions that are in line with their PE lessons . Each year group will compete in their designated group at different times throughout the final week of the half term.

Inter-School Tournaments - we take part in competing at various sporting events throughout the year which is organised by Dinnington High and across our trust. Pupils are selected to represent our school based not only on merit, but on attitude and passion for the sport. At Whiston we are striving to be as competitive as possible when attending inter-school tournaments while still aiming to ensure that every pupil has the same opportunity to try out for the team.

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