PE
Physical Education (PE) at Reignhead Primary School
Intent
At Reignhead Primary School, children’s physical education and development is of high importance. We teach children that keeping physically active and eating well is an important life skill, this links to our school's strong commitment to developing the whole child. Through high quality indoor and outdoor PE lessons, as well as active and structured lunchtimes, children receive many opportunities to keep themselves active. We strive to make our PE offer as wide as possible to provide opportunities for all our children, particularly those who may not access sports outside of school.
Key Aims
The primary aims of RE at Reignhead are to:
- Develop physical literacy: Equip children with the fundamental movement skills and confidence to participate in a wide range of physical activities, fostering lifelong engagement in healthy, active living.
- Promote wellbeing and resilience: Encourage the development of physical, emotional, and social wellbeing through active play and teamwork, helping children build resilience, self-discipline, and a positive attitude towards challenges.
- Provide inclusive opportunities beyond the curriculum: Offer extracurricular activities, sports events, and festivals that engage all children, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), to explore a variety of physical activities and sports in a supportive, inclusive environment.
4.Nurture whole child development: Integrate physical education into the broader curriculum to support the whole child's development—promoting cognitive, emotional, and social skills alongside physical health. This includes encouraging regular movement throughout the day to enhance focus and learning.
Implementation
1) Content and Skills
Throughout their time at Reignhead, pupils will explore a wide range of sports, including dance, yoga, basketball, hockey and dodgeball. Each block of PE is broken down into the fundamental skills that will be learnt, these are: physical, social, emotional and thinking skills. Each half term begins by breaking down these fundamental skills and gradually building upon them throughout the block. By the end of a half term we hope to see children apply their skills and knowledge of the sport to compete or perform, showing what they have learnt. Children will be able to apply many of the skills learnt across different areas of the PE curriculum.
2) Progression
In Key Stage 1, the main focus is on children’s physical literacy and the development of skills. They begin with team building, ball skills, catching and throwing and striking and fielding before applying these to traditional sports in Key Stage 2. As pupils progress through Key Stage 2, the curriculum puts their skills into practice, exploring a wide variety of sports, ensuring there is something for everyone. Children also begin to take part in local and regional sporting events and festivals to enhance their skills and give their learning a purpose. For example, each summer Reignhead takes a group of children to the Sheffield Athletics Competition at Woodburn Road, a Sheffield Hallam university athletics facility. Once children progress to Upper Key Stage 2 (Year 5 and 6) they learn to be Sports Leaders through a structured programme delivered by trained sports coaches. This leads to them receiving a qualification that allows them to run sports activities at Reignhead.
Wider Impact
Through ensuring physical activity is encouraged throughout the school, not just in standalone PE lessons, we hope to see an increase in children actively participating at lunchtimes and break times. Through high quality training, our lunch time supervisors provide a range of activities for children on the yard at lunchtimes. We believe all children should be able to participate in sport and consequently ensure we are offering something for everyone!
Throughout the school we encourage teachers to create active classrooms through the use of movement breaks and active learning. Our Silver Base provision have an added PE hour with a focus on resilience and team building. This not only provides an extra hour of physical activity; it also gives our children skills they can apply in their lives in the future.
At Reignhead, we also participate in many local and regional sports events and festivals. We try to ensure all children get the opportunity to go to at least one of these throughout their time with us. We believe this helps create a sense of belonging and pride in our school.
Sporting Events and Achievements
Futsal tournament at Westfield School
On the 3rd October some of our Year 5 and 6 children went to Westfield school to represent Reignhead in a Futsal tournament against local schools. We worked hard and played well as a team, although unfortunately didn’t get through to the semi finals! Maybe next time!
