“Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back … play for her.”
– Mia Hamm, Olympic gold medalist
Physical Education is a process of learning through physical activities to enhance fitness, refine motor skills, and foster knowledge and behaviours that support healthy, active lifestyles. It also nurtures sportsmanship, tactical thinking, problem-solving skills, and emotional intelligence.
Physical literacy is the ability, confidence and desire to be physically active throughout life. It involves developing fundamental movement skills, the building blocks of physical development. This then allows all to participate in a variety of physical activities. For the children, it is not just about fitness; it is about understanding movement, feeling comfortable in different physical environments and developing the motivation to stay active.
At Haddenham Community Junior School we aim to:
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Promote a holistic approach to Physical Education and Physical Literacy.
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Help all our pupils to excel in a broad range of fundamental and transferable physical skills and activities.
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Engage and inspire our pupils to be physically active for sustained periods of time.
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Inspire our pupils to lead healthy and active lives, being aware of how diet affects the body.
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Encourage all our pupils to participate and compete in a wide range of sports and activities.
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Promote the ‘active 30 minutes’ initiative throughout the academic year.
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Increase physical activity during playtimes and lunchtimes by having a sports council team who plan and organise fun and interactive games for children to play.
Our Curriculum:
Physical Education is a statutory subject in the national curriculum. All children should take part in a minimum of 2 hours of physical activity per week. The knowledge and understanding of which are set out in the 2014 national curriculum program of study. At HCJS, PE is led, managed and assessed by the Physical development health and wellbeing curriculum team.
At HCJS we promote, through curriculum time and extra-curricular activities, a holistic approach to Physical Education. We believe in teaching core fundamental movement skills and applying them in game and sport specific situations.
In Lower Key Stage 2 we focus on developing fundamental and transferable skills alongside game specific skills within modified game situations, while Upper Key Stage 2 focuses upon developing tactical awareness, outwitting opponents, gameplay, coaching and leadership.
Scheme of Work:
At HCJS we use the GET SET 4 PE Scheme of work to deliver our Physical Education lessons.
Get Set 4 PE:
This programme aligns with our core values, our whole child approach to PE and the objectives laid out in the National Curriculum. Get Set 4 PE is planned so that progression is built into the scheme which ensures our children are increasingly challenged as they move up through the school.
