Physical Education

Intent
At Rattlesden School, physical education is a foundation subject. It plays an important role in allowing all pupils to enjoy and participate in a broad range of sport and exercise. Our PE curriculum provides opportunities for pupils to become physically confident, to improve their health and fitness and to compete individually and as a team. It also embeds values such as resilience, fairness, honesty and respect and develops teamwork skills. We aim to inspire our pupils and foster a love of sport in order for them to continue to live healthy and active lives.

Implementation
Every class has two hours of timetabled PE or physical activity each week, in a sequence of 5 or 6 lessons per unit, which focus on a particular sport, activity or set of skills. In Early Years, they develop the fundamental movement skills through gym trail activities and also use music and movement across their curriculum.

As part of our involvement with the sports partnership, we regularly take part in development and competitive sporting events out of school, which allow children to apply their skills in a competitive situation and represent the school with their peers as well as taking part in in school competitions. We also provide opportunities for children to attend a wide variety of sports clubs each week, such as running, cheerleading, football, dodgeball, ballet, gymnastics and boxercise. At lunchtimes, sports coaches and playleaders organise games and activities to encourage active play.

We use the Pavilion playing field in the village to extend our PE provision for events such as cross-country, rounders tournaments and sports day!

In year 4, all children take part in weekly swimming lessons for one term per year. Any child who is not able to swim 25m in Year 5 and 6, will continue to take part in these weekly swimming lessons until they are able to.