Our school aim is to inspire all children to develop a love of physical activity and sport. Through good physical education, whole school values and a whole child approach, we aim to nurture confident, resilient children who will strive for their personal best.

Get Set 4 PE

We follow the Get Set 4 PE scheme of work which offers all children the opportunities to develop their physical fundamental movement skills, as well as achieving whole child objectives through gaining a knowledge of rules, strategies and tactics and building an understanding of healthy participation.  

Each lesson has progressive activities that are designed to inspire and engage our pupils; they have clear learning objectives with key success criteria, which provides information to help pupils develop their skill level and to consider how successful they have been within a lesson. Teaching points appear throughout to help teachers with their subject knowledge and modelling and to ensure misconceptions are addressed at the earliest point. Differentiation tasks provide activities with simple changes to appropriately challenge/support to ensure all pupils are successful and feel included. 

We recognise that learning takes time; all lessons are sequential and build on prior knowledge and skills. Our pupils benefit from high quality instruction, time to practise and receiving meaningful feedback. They are also given enough time to revisit and develop their knowledge to gain a competence within PE.  

We listen to our children's wants and needs and provide them with a range of active experiences, clubs and chances to compete. 

We want to aid our children in obtaining the values and skills to celebrate and respect the success of others as well as modestly celebrating their own successes. 

We aim to ensure that our delivery of physical education allows all children to have the skills and mindset to leave primary school with the capabilities to be successful in their sporting challenges and active lifestyles at secondary school and beyond. 

We strive to educate both our children and families to develop a greater understanding on how to live healthy lifestyles and make healthy choices. We are dedicated to ensuring healthy minds as well as bodies and will continue to support our children's well-being. 

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Impact

Assessment of skills, identified within the P.E. National Curriculum, is carried out lesson by lesson. The Get Set 4 P.E. scheme has clear success criteria for each lesson enabling staff to identify skills acquired and plan future lessons to build on those skills. Children are encouraged to peer assess, offering constructive feedback to aid further development.

These judgements will be quality assured by subject leaders using first-hand evidence of how pupils are doing, drawing together evidence from lesson observations, evidence through photographs and pupil voice to monitor ongoing progress.

Assessments will inform the curriculum and whether children are ready for the next stage in the curriculum.

At Damers, we intend to deliver PE lessons several times a week, alongside our outdoor learning, to develop young people who are active and have a positive outlook on their physical and mental health. We aspire for all children to enjoy PE and develop a love of sport and physical activity, which hopefully becomes part of their future life beyond school. 

PE is taught by our teachers and sports coach Trevor Senior. All staff are committed to implementing an inclusive curriculum which builds on skills each year and inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sports and other physical activities. A love of being physically active outside of our PE lessons is implemented through encouraging children to make active journeys to school, participate in the daily mile and be offered a wide range of after school clubs.  At Damers, our harmony principles underpin everything we do, giving children a life long mindset of actively enjoying the world around them and looking after their mental health. 

The impact of our teaching and learning allows children to gain fundamental knowledge, understanding, skills and techniques and apply these to a wide variety of sports and activities. In a safe and supportive environment, they reflect upon their physical performance, strive to improve and become team players. Being physically active throughout the day has a positive impact on learning inside the classroom where children are more able to concentrate and self regulate. Children understand how to lead a healthy lifestyle and understand the importance of regular exercise and activity for their physical and mental wellbeing. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making Healthy Choices

Being healthy and staying healthy is an ever growing issue, and is embedded in all of the work that we do in PE and as part of our curriculum work as a whole. Damers is committed to providing pupils with the knowledge and understanding of the importance of making healthy choices in their lives both now and in the future. In addition to our overall curriculum provision, we also dedicate a week of special activities to promote health issues and to give pupils and staff the chance to ‘try something new’.  This might be a new food or it might be trying out a new sport. Every year an exciting programme of events is put together, to offer pupils different experiences as they move up through the school. Pupils are given many different taster sessions delivered by external providers and specialists such as archery, climbing wall and cricket to name but a few. Children are also given information about these clubs should they wish to develop their interest further.

 

Extra-Curricular Activities

At Damers we strive to encourage pupils to take part in physical activities and as a result offer different after school activities run by our widely experienced staff. We listen carefully to the views of our pupils and take these into account when deciding which clubs and activities will be on offer. To see the range of clubs and activities which we currently have on offer click here.