Core PE and games 
 

The core elements of our Early Years/KS1 PE and games curriculum follow the national curriculum guidance. They are as follows:

Early Years /Key Stage 1
 

Develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others.

• Engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and cooperative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.
• Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and coordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities.

Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending.

Key Stage 2

The core elements of our KS2 PE and games curriculum follow the national curriculum guidance. They are as follows:

• Enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other.
• Develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.
• Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination.
• Play competitive games, modified where appropriate (for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis) and apply basic principles suitable for attaching and defending.
• Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance (for example, through athletics and gymnastics). 
• Perform dances using a range of movement patterns.
• Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team.
• Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

Download our Belleville PE Progression Overview

Gymnastics
 

We have highly-experienced, specialist gym coaches. There are three core areas for gymnastic progression in skills. All three elements are taught explicitly and progressively from Reception to year 6:

• Strength and flexibility
• Floor
• Vault

Dance
 

Dance is a very well established and successful part of our creative and physical curriculum and the engagement at all ages is exceptionally high. Children develop their creative and choreographic skills through a balance of physical exploration and set tasks. Our carefully designed units of work build progressively and ensure children experience the diversity, history and culture of dance around the world and through the ages. Some units of work build on learning in other areas of the curriculum, but many stand alone.The core elements of our dance curriculum are:

• Composition and Performance: Through a range of stimuli children explore their ideas selecting and refining their actions to compose short movement phrases as a solo with partners, small groups or as a whole class. 
• Performing: Every lesson involves opportunities to perform. Children develop confidence and self-esteem by celebrating and sharing their work with each other.
• Appreciation: Children observe each other to celebrate their work and to give opportunities to perform regularly, whilst learning from each other. Children give feedback to identify strengths and further improvements, using dance vocabulary. 
  
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Swimming

As a member of the Swim England School Swimming and Water Safety Charter,

We are supported with resources to complete the three key outcomes set out by the national curriculum and provided with awards for every child after their completion of the swim unit.

- The three key outcomes children are expected to achieve by the end of Year 6 are:

Our School Swimming and Water Safety Charter Awards have been designed with pupils of all abilities and backgrounds in mind to ensure:

• All pupils have access to the most essential swimming and water safety skills, whatever their ability.
• Provide reward and recognition to every pupil who participates in school swimming lessons.
• Keep all pupils motivated to continue with their school swimming lessons and meet the national curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety.

Swimming is taught offsite in Year 5 for an intensive 5 week programme for each class.

In addition, we use our PE Premium to fund extra swimming lessons during half term holidays, for identified children who need additional support to fulfil the national curriculum requirement for swimming 25 metres.