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Plaistow Primary School

Physical Education

We believe that all children at Plaistow Primary School should experience a high quality physical education. This includes accessing a wide range of sporting activities which will lead to a lifelong passion for health and fitness.

Our school values underpin the PE curriculum. Joy, creativity and aspiration underpin each sporting or physical activity that children and adults participate in at Plaistow.

Children are taught PE by both their class teachers and a dedicated sports coach. There are also opportunities to attend sports after-school clubs, such as netball, gymnastics and archery!

Through PE and sport at Plaistow all children will:

  • have an increased confidence, knowledge and skill across a wide range of sport and physical activity
  • be engaged in regular physical activity
  • have a broad experience across a range of sports and activities
  • have an increased level of participation in competitive sport
  • understand how sport and physical activity leads to healthy lifestyle that leads into adulthood
  • learn about fairness and respect when it comes to sport and physical activity

Pupils in Key Stage 1 are 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 in Key Stage 2 are 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, rounders 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.

Curriculum Design

We teach Physical Education using resources from Complete PE, whose sequenced units of work ensure progression from EYFS, to KS1 and KS2. The platform allows the school to create a PE curriculum that is flexible, tailored and bespoke to the needs of our children.

Plaistow Primary School Curriculum Map for Physical Education

Swimming

All children at Plaistow Primary School have the opportunity to attend two weeks of intensive swimming lessons at the London Aquatics Centre. 

Children are taught to:

  • swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
  • use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
  • perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.