PE and Sport

Physical Education (PE) Curriculum Overview

Intent

At Moreland Primary School, our PE curriculum is designed to:

Promote Physical Confidence: Encourage pupils to become physically confident in a way that supports their health and fitness and fosters enjoyment of physical activity.
Provide a Broad Sporting Experience: Offer a diverse range of sports and physical activities, including team games (football, netball, tag rugby, cricket), tennis, athletics, gymnastics, dance, swimming, and adventurous outdoor activities such as orienteering and team challenges.
Encourage Healthy Lifestyles: Instil the importance of regular physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle.
Develop Key Life Skills: Promote teamwork, resilience, leadership, and cooperation through sport and physical challenges.
Support Talent and Participation: Provide pathways for all children to succeed, whether through competitive sport or inclusive physical education.
Foster aspiration and cultural capital: Engagement with professional sports organisations and real-world sporting experiences.
Encourage participation in adventurous activities and outdoor challenges (including residential): Build confidence, independence, and leadership.

This intent supports our whole-school goal of developing healthy, confident learners who embrace challenge and understand the value of physical and mental well-being.

Implementation

We implement our PE curriculum through:

A Structured Scheme: Following the Complete PE Scheme of Work, which ensures progression in physical development and knowledge across all year groups.
Swimming Instruction: Delivering intensive swimming courses to Key Stage 2 pupils at a local pool, with a focus on stroke development, water safety, and endurance.
Wide Range of Sports: Providing regular access to various sports including football, netball, tag rugby, cricket, athletics, tennis, gymnastics, and dance, as well as adventurous outdoor activities like orienteering and problem-solving challenges.
Partnership working: Specialist coaches and partnerships support high-quality delivery and broaden opportunities.
Extracurricular Activities: Offering sports clubs and inter-school competitions to broaden experience and deepen engagement.
Cultural capital and Enrichment: This is enhanced through:
- Working with local and national sporting organisations such as Platform Cricket, Middlesex Cricket, Access Sport, Arsenal FC and Bloomsbury Football.
- Attending major sporting events and visiting professional stadiums to experience live sport.
- Participating in adventurous activities including kayaking, orienteering, forest school sessions, and residential trips focused on outdoor education.
Inclusive Practice: Ensuring all children, regardless of ability, feel confident to participate and develop in physical activity.

Impact

The impact of our PE curriculum is reflected in:

Improved Physical Competence: Pupils show increasing skill levels in coordination, agility, stamina, and teamwork. Outcomes in PE show children meeting attainment targets.
Positive Attitudes Towards Activity: Students enjoy physical education and understand its benefits, developing positive lifelong habits.
Broadened Horizons: Exposure to a wide range of sports and adventurous activities helps pupils discover new interests and talents.
Enhanced Personal Development: Pupils demonstrate growth in confidence, collaboration, leadership, and perseverance through physical challenges.
Outcomes: School teams and individuals perform well in competitions.
Inclusion: Increased equality of access to residentials, extra-curricular activities and competitions/ events.

Through high-quality PE provision, children at Moreland Primary School become active, motivated, and resilient learners equipped with the knowledge and enthusiasm to lead healthy, active lives.

PE and Sport at Moreland

At Moreland, we believe it is important that as children grow and develop, they understand the importance of physical activity in developing and maintaining their health and well-being. We aim to inspire our children to be healthy and active and to develop a passion for sport and they participate in a wide range of activities:

Fundamental skills
Net games (Tennis)
Competitive games ( Tag Rugby, Football, Netball, Cricket)
Gymnastics (Floor work, apparatus)
Athletics
Team building games
Dance
Swimming
Outdoor and adventure opportunities
Orienteering

Children do at least 2 hours PE a week and we follow the Complete PE scheme of work. We frequently work with PE coaches and specialists who work alongside teachers. We also have our own professional dance and drama teacher who teaches all year over the year.

The children are given opportunities to compete in inter-school events in a variety of sports and every child can take part in competitions within the school. We promote the idea of good sportsmanship and fair play in all our activities with an understanding that taking part is the most important thing.

Alongside competitions, we celebrate individual successes in Physical Education, recognising that personal achievement and attitude are often just as important as a win for the team.

Children are given the opportunity to swim from Year 3-6 in nearby Iron Monger Baths. Our aim is for all pupils leaving the school to be able to swim at least 25m.

Children in Key Stage 2 also have the chance to complete the National Cycling Proficiency scheme.
We provide a range of after-school clubs and extra-curricular sporting opportunities. Some of our clubs include Football, Netball, Rugby, Basketball, Dance and Kung Fu. Sporting achievement is celebrated in whole-class assemblies and we encourage all children to take an active role in Physical Education and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Children get the opportunity to take part in adventurous activities and adventurous play through Islington's 11 by 11 access to local adventure playgrounds and through the school's residential trips in Year 5 and 6.

We ensure that our children benefit from high-quality P.E. instruction. Our P.E. provision was externally audited by AfPE association for physical education in January 2016 and we were awarded a Quality Mark for PE: “demonstrating good commitment to improvement in physical education and sport.”

P.E. KIT

We ask that children come into school on PE days in their PE KIt to maximise time spent on PE during the lesson. This should include: trainers, a white t-shirt, loose-fitting black jogging bottoms or leggings or blue PE shorts, leggings for P.E and Dance. Children can wear their school sweatshirt.

SWIMMING KIT

Children in Years 3 to 6 are required to bring a swimming cap to all swimming lessons. Boys should wear trunks but not ‘board shorts’. Girls are asked to wear one-piece swimming costumes. Children are allowed to wear goggles with parental permission. Please fill in the appropriate form in the school office.

Physical Education (PE) plays an integral role within the lives of our children. We provide a full curriculum that supports pupils to become physically confident, reinforce their health and fitness and develop individual talent.