Physical Education

At North Borough Junior School we aim to ensure that our pupils both enjoy exercise and excel at sporting activities through a balanced curriculum. Our intent is to foster an active, healthy lifestyle that will stay with the children as they grow and mature.

We provide our pupils with two sessions of physical education each week, which is delivered by the class teacher and a specialist PE teacher. We ensure that each of our lessons cover:

• Acquiring and developing new sporting skills- pupils are taught to explore basic skills, actions and ideas with increasing understanding and to remember/repeat simple skills/actions with increasing control and coordination.

• Selecting and applying new skills pupils are taught to explore how to choose and apply skills and actions in sequence and in combination as well as vary the way they perform skills by using simple tactics and movement phrases and also to apply rules and conventions for different activities.
• Developing their knowledge and understanding of fitness and health pupils are taught how important it is to be active and to recognise & describe how their bodies feel during different activities.

• Learning to evaluate and improve their own sporting performance- pupils are taught to describe what they have done, to observe/describe/copy what others have done and to use what they have learnt to improve the quality and control of their work.

Government funding has been used to improve the provision of physical education and after school clubs.  The impact of the funding is considered in terms of: increased activity for sustained periods of time, achievement in weekly PE lessons, increased participation in competitive school sport, greater understanding of personal health and well-being and improved attitudes towards sport. 

Pupils also have the opportunity to attend many sporting clubs and this has led to an increase in the number of pupils participating in competitive sports tournaments and inclusive festivals.

We encourage pupils to join after school sports clubs which include: Football, Netball, Badminton, Cross country running, Tennis and striking and fielding games.

Mrs Barling (PE Coordinator)

PE Skills Progression Document