‘A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. It should provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect’.
The Department for Education (DfE)
At Dove Bank, we aim to enable children to develop and explore physical skills with increasing control and coordination. We want to encourage children to work and play with others in a range of group situations. We want to develop the way children perform skills, and apply rules and conventions for different activities. We want to show children how to improve the quality and control of their performance. We will teach children to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise. We aim to develop children’s enjoyment of physical activity through creativity and imagination. We want all children to swim at least 25m confidently by the end of year 6. We want to develop an understanding in children of how to succeed in a range of physical activities, and how to evaluate their own success.
We work very closely with our ASM coaches to ensure high quality delivery and learning. We learn a range of different sports. We have access to different sports clubs.
Competition in lots of different sports is something that we thoroughly enjoy at Dove Bank.
We go to cross country, dodgeball, football, netball, rounders, athletics competitions. We also take part in sports days out at Keele University and The Kings Secondary school.