P.E.

Subject leader

Mr Cooke is responsible for P.E. This means ensuring there is an ambitious curriculum set, supporting teachers to implement it through high-quality lessons and checking that everything is helping children to know more, remember more and do more.

If you would like more information in addition to that published on this page, please email:

bcooke@oakfield.academy

Purpose of Study

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.

Aims

The National Curriculum for physical education aims to ensure that all pupils:

Oakfield's Approach

Inspirational People

At our school, we believe in using the power of inspiration to help shape the thinking and curriculum design of our students. That's why we have taken inspiration from successful and influential people who have made a significant impact in their respective fields. By studying their stories, we aim to inspire our pupils to aim high and achieve their own goals. We have carefully curated a list of inspirational figures, including scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, and activists, to name a few. We have analysed what made them successful and incorporated their values, principles, and strategies into our curriculum design to provide our students with the tools they need to succeed. By doing so, we hope to empower our students to dream big and achieve greatness.

Intent

We are setting out to help our pupils be ...

Implementation

We will do this by ensuring ...

Impact

We will have made a difference when ...

Threshold Concepts

These are our big takeaways called ‘threshold concepts’ - an overview of what we want pupils to know. They are the same for every year group and help us to ensure we build learning on the same ideas, that way we help children to be able to remember more meaningful connections rather than remembering isolated facts.


Progression on a Page ...

Here is an overview of what we expect children to be taught, know and do by the end of each year group.

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Units of Learning ...

Year 1 - Autumn

Core - Personal

This unit teaches children to develop coordination skills. Skills are developed through developing different footwork skills and balances. 

Year 1 - Autumn

Core - Social

In this unit children develop dynamic balances and agility. Skills are developed through jumping, landing, and seated balances. 

Year 1 - Autumn

Core - Gym

Children will learn to move in different ways and begin to perform a small range of skills, linking two movements together. 

Year 1 - Spring

Core - Gym

Children will learn to move in different ways and begin to perform a small range of skills, linking two movements together. 

Year 1 - Spring

Dance - U1

In this unit, children will learn to create multiple standing and

floor shapes. They will progress to learning how to travel between shapes and create shapes in contrast to a partner.

Year 1 - Summer

Core - Creative

This unit supports children to develop their coordination through ball skills. We will learn to counter balance with a partner. 


Year 1 - Summer

Core - Physical

Children will develop their coordination skills further with sending and receiving balls. Children will develop their agility with reaction and response. 

Year 2 - Autumn

Core - Personal

This unit teaches children to develop coordination skills. Skills are developed through developing different footwork skills and balances. 


Year 2 - Autumn

Gym - U1

Children will learn different balances and ways to travel. Skills will be developed through seated balances and balances using different apparatus. 

Year 2 - Autumn

Core - Social

This unit teaches children to develop dynamic balances and agility. Skills are developed through jumping, landing and seated balances. 

Year 2 - Spring

Core - Cognitive

This unit builds on children’s dynamic balance to create circuits and different pathways. Children will learn to balance on a straight line and develop stance combinations.

Year 2 - Spring

Dance - U1

In this unit, children will learn to create multiple standing and

floor shapes, working with a partner. They will progress to learning how to travel between shapes and create shapes in contrast to a partner.

Year 2 - Summer

Core - Creative

Children will develop their coordination skills further with sending and receiving balls. Children will develop their agility with reaction and response.

Year 2 - Summer

Core - Physical

Children will develop gymnastics skills by working on flight movements. They will learn to create sequences using different rotations. 

Year 3 - Autumn

Core - Personal

This unit teaches children to develop coordination skills. Skills are developed through developing different footwork skills and balances. 

Year 3 - Autumn

Core - Social

Children learn how to cooperate and take part in small group tasks. Children use a range of dynamic balances to complete jumps and safe landing.


Year 3 - Spring

Core - Cognitive

This unit supports children to use their cognitive skills in PE. Children understand how to judge performance and use this to identify parts to work on. Children can explain why someone is working well. In team games children begin to understand and use tactics of attacking and defending. 

Year 3 - Spring

Gym - U1

In this unit children will be able to link actions and develop sequences. They will be able to change and adapt rules or tasks to make activities more challenging. To develop coordination, children will practise ways of sending and receiving.

Year 3 - Spring

Dance - U1

In this unit the children will learn how to combine turning, jumping and moving with a partner to create and perform a sequence of moves.


Year 3 - Summer

Core - Creative

This unit supports children’s creativity. Children will show an awareness of strength by developing a range of movements and skills with good body tension, this will be incorporated into effective techniques for running, jumping and throwing activities.  

Children will be able to perform a sequence of movements with some changes in level, direction or speed.

Year 3 - Summer

Core - Physical

In this unit children will be able to describe the basic fitness components and explain how often and how long they need to exercise to be healthy. They will be able to record and monitor how hard they are working. They will be able to describe how their body feels during and after  exercise.  Children will be able to use equipment appropriately and safely.

Year 4 - Autumn

Core - Personal

This unit supports children’s understanding of the importance of having coordination when moving using different foot work. The progression is through developing different footwork and balances (on one leg) throughout the unit. 

Year 4 - Autumn

Core - Social

This unit focuses on the children’s dynamic balance to agility, looking at how they can jump and land safely. We will also be focusing on their static seated balancing and changing positions. 

Year 4 - Spring

 Core - Cognitive

This unit focuses on the children’s ability to dynamically balance on a line. We will also be working on their ball skills by getting them to roll and control a given ball to a partner. 

Year 4 - Spring

Dance - U1

The children will be able to select and link movements together to fit a theme. They will also be able to recognise similarities and differences in movements as well as expression.  

Year 4 - Spring

 Core - Gym

This unit focuses on the children’s coordination to send and receive a ball by bouncing to and from a partner. We will also be focusing on their ability to counter balance with the support of a partner. 

Year 4 - Summer

Core - Creative

This unit focuses on the children’s reactions and responses when a ball is thrown or bounced towards them. We will also be working on our static balance focusing specifically on floor work.

Year 4 - Summer

Core - Physical

This unit focuses on the children’s ability to chase a ball effectively and maintain control. We will also be looking at our static balance by focusing on our stance - how we position our bodies. 

Year 5 - Autumn

Core - Cognitive

In this unit, children are taught to develop their cognitive skills by making decisions when working in teams and independently.  They will focus on developing stance and footwork and learn how this can help them to improve their performance. 

Year 5 - Autumn

Core - Creative

In this unit, children will learn how to be creative, changing tactics, rules and tasks to make activities more fun and challenging. They will focus on developing their seated balance and floor work.

Year 5 - Spring

Gym - U1

During this unit, children will learn how to use different apparatus and sequences, such as rhythmic and climbing sequences. 

Year 5 - Spring

Dance - U1

Children will learn to develop their dance skills, such as performance, partner work, musicality and creating dances (choreography). 

Year 5 - Summer

Core - Physical

In this unit, children will learn to develop their physical skills, such as jumping and landing and balancing on one leg. 

Year 5 - Summer

Core - Personal

In this unit, children will develop their personal skills, such as resilience and confidence. They will practise ball skills and responses and reactions. 

Year 5 - Summer

Swimming

Children will learn a variety of strokes to be able to swim 25m.

Year 6 - Autumn

Core - Cognitive

This unit teaches children to develop and understand their own health and fitness. Coordination is developed through sending and receiving and ball chasing is used to improve agility. 

Year 6 - Autumn

Gym

This unit develops children’s gym skills using hand apparatus and low apparatus through the theme of rhythmic and bench sequences. 

Year 6 - Spring

Core - Physical

This unit supports children to use their cognitive skills in their physical education. Coordination is developed through footwork and different stances are used to support static balance. 


Year 6 - Spring

Gym

This unit develops children’s gym skills using large apparatus and partner work through the theme of acrobatic and climbing sequences. 

Year 6 - Summer

Core

This unit supports each child's physical education. Agility is developed through jumping and landing and one leg balances are used to support static balance. 


Year 6 - Summer

Core - Creative

This unit supports children to develop their creative skills. Seated balance and floor work is used to support a child’s static balance. 

Detailed Progression in P.E.

1e - Threshold Concepts - PE.pdf

We're so proud!

After many years of achieving the School Games Silver Mark, we have finally been awarded the prestigious School Games Gold Mark. This incredible achievement represents the culmination of hard work, commitment, and unrelenting dedication of our children, staff, and the wider school community coordinated by Mr Cooke.

The School Games Mark is a government-led awards scheme launched by Sport England and delivered by the Youth Sport Trust. It rewards schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. Achieving Gold status is no small feat; it required us to fulfil specific, stringent criteria.

To qualify for the Gold Mark, we had to meet several prerequisites that extend beyond those of the Silver Mark:

Participation: Over the last year, all our pupils have been engaged in regular physical activity – with the Chief Medical Officer recommending at least 60 active minutes a day.

Competition: We increased the number of pupils participating in inter-school competitions and our students have taken part in multiple competitions across a range of sports throughout the school year.

Team: We have expanded opportunities for children to learn to lead and volunteer in sport, with 15% of pupils engaged in leading, managing and officiating School Games activity.

Clubs: We increased the breadth in the sports and activities offered to all, offering a diverse range of sporting clubs and physical activity opportunities.

Community Links: We established strong links with local sports clubs and organisations, encouraging our students to continue their physical development outside of school hours.

Inclusion: We strived to make our School Games as inclusive as possible, ensuring all young people have the opportunity to participate in competitive sport.

This Gold Mark is a testament to our children's enthusiasm, talent and commitment, the inspiring work of our dedicated team, all the volunteers who have attended and facilitated the games, the support we've received from families, and our robust sporting community links. But above all, it shows how deeply ingrained sports, games and physical development is in our school's ethos.

Moving forward, our aim is to use this recognition as motivation to improve further. We are now more committed than ever to promoting physical activity and competition!




We achieved the School Games Mark Silver Level Award for the 2019/20 academic year as well as two special awards that recognise our commitment to high quality P.E. at home during lockdown.

SG_2020_recognition_certificate (Oakfield) (1).pdf
SG_2020_virtual_certificate 2 (Oakfield).pdf

School Games

Hampshire School Games

We're proud to take part and take home SILVER in 2019 and SILVER 2020 ... Gold next, right?

A special message from a special visitor!

Sports Day

Sports Funding