PE
Curious, Loving, Independent, Creative and Knowledgeable
Intent
Our curriculum vision is that our children are curious, loving, independent, creative and knowledgeable (CLICK) citizens of the future.
At St Antony’s, we are athletes. We want our children to love PE and to aspire to be the change they want to see in our world, to be sports scientists, physiotherapists, coaches and professional athletes. Above all, we want our children to love physical activity and the benefits it brings. The PE curriculum has been carefully crafted so that our children develop their sports capital and grow to be happy, healthy citizens of the future.
We have designed the PE curriculum beginning with the end in mind. The subject content as outlined in the national curriculum supports the needs of our children and allows them to retain knowledge in their long-term memory.
St Antony’s is situated in a leafy suburb of the London Borough of Redbridge and the majority of children come from professional homes with access to a rich cultural capital. What our children need, is a more global viewpoint and an understanding of the diverse world in which they live.
As a Catholic school, our faith is at the heart of everything that we do and the principles of catholic social teaching are therefore drivers for our curriculum. It is also inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’, which calls us to “Listen to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor who suffer most” and by the UN Global Goals.
Implementation
Our curriculum vision is that our children are curious, loving, independent, creative and knowledgeable (CLICK) citizens of the future.
At St Antony’s, we are athletes. We want our children to love PE and to aspire to be the change they want to see in our world, to be sports scientists, physiotherapists, coaches and professional athletes. Above all, we want our children to love physical activity and the benefits it brings. The PE curriculum has been carefully crafted so that our children develop their sports capital and grow to be happy, healthy citizens of the future.
We have designed the PE curriculum beginning with the end in mind. The subject content as outlined in the national curriculum supports the needs of our children and allows them to retain knowledge in their long-term memory.
St Antony’s is situated in a leafy suburb of the London Borough of Redbridge and the majority of children come from professional homes with access to a rich cultural capital. What our children need, is a more global viewpoint and an understanding of the diverse world in which they live.
As a Catholic school, our faith is at the heart of everything that we do and the principles of catholic social teaching are therefore drivers for our curriculum. It is also inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’, which calls us to “Listen to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor who suffer most” and by the UN Global Goals.
Ball skills , fundamentals and sending and receiving KS1 units isolate skills to prepare children to apply these in games activities (target, net and wall, striking and fielding and invasion) with increased pressure, rules and decision making. This is the same rationale for ball skills and fundamentals in Lower KS2.
Consideration has been made for weather to avoid disruption to lessons, placing units such as dance and gymnastics in Autumn and Spring 1.
To give children a broad range of experiences, we have alternated games activities throughout KS2. For example, cricket in year 3 and 5, rounders in year 4 and 6. We teach handball in year 5 as our linked secondary school do much of this in their PE and we want to our children to feel prepared to enter those lessons with some knowledge, understanding and confidence.