At St Hedda’s, we believe that high quality Physical Education (PE) is the foundation for our children to attain optimum physical, social and emotional development as well as good health and wellbeing. We provide high quality teaching and learning opportunities that inspire all children to succeed and develop important life skills. We encourage the children to cooperate and collaborate with others as part of an effective team using our HEDDAS values to inspire us.

H – Healthy

E – Enthusiastic

D – Determined 

D – Driven

A – Athletic

S – Superstar

At St. Hedda’s, we have an ambitious knowledge-rich PE curriculum that will inspire our children to develop the competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities and go on to lead healthy, active lives.  Our Physical Education (PE) curriculum involves both ‘learning to move’ and ‘moving to learn’ with children experiencing a broad range of activities, including sport and dance. We want our children to have the composite skills and component knowledge to build deeper understanding and the capacity for skilful performance. Our vision when teaching PE is:

• To inspire and nurture our children’s interest and understanding of the valuable contributions it can make to their personal and emotional wellbeing and social, moral, spiritual and cultural development. 
• To physically educate all children in a climate of high expectations where a love of the subject can flourish so they know more and can do more.
• To ensure our children experience exciting and memorable PE lessons, so that they can progress in the broader physiological, psychological and socio-cultural aspects of physical activity and sport and leave our school with confident, competent and intelligent movement skills and important knowledge that provides a gateway into lifelong participation. 

At St. Hedda’s, all children have 2 hours of curriculum PE every week. Our PE curriculum builds progressively and ambitiously in terms of conceptual understanding and the generative learning of substantive knowledge. Children develop knowledge and understanding of a wide range of vocabulary so that it can be applied independently. Each unit of study in PE Passport draws upon children’s prior learning and new content is introduced in a carefully planned and logical sequence, allowing them to build upon what they already know. This starts with developing fundamental movement skills as part of Physical Development in EYFS which includes locomotor, stability and manipulation skills.

In EYFS the focus is on the prime are of learning, physical development. This is a fundamental skill which is woven throughout play. Priority is given to outdoor play and learning.

In Key Stage One there is an emphasis on developing fundamental movement skills where children are given opportunities to develop core stability, balance, agility and coordination:

• Locomotor skills including walking, running, hopping, skipping, jumping and dodging. 
• Manipulative skills including throwing, catching, kicking, bouncing and rolling a ball. 

Children are given opportunities to master the skills above throughout KS1 and then apply simple strategies and tactics in a range of games based learning. Repeated and deliberate practice is essential for pupils to remember and retrieve substantive knowledge and they use their disciplinary knowledge to explain and articulate what they know. 

In Key Stage two, the children continue to build upon the key principles taught in Class One. Opportunities are provided to develop their substantive and disciplinary knowledge as pupils become more expert, for example through their skill selection and application of rules, strategies and tactics as well as compositional ideas, and can apply this across a range of sports. 

At St. Hedda’s we ensure that assessment is deeply embedded as an essential part of teaching and learning throughout our PE curriculum.