Physical Education
At Badsey First School, our mission is to foster a love for sports and an active lifestyle among all students, regardless of their abilities. We view physical education as a crucial component of children’s development, focusing on fundamental skills such as agility, balance, and coordination through a variety of individual and team sports. Our students are enthusiastic about PE, and we take pride in offering a dynamic and inclusive curriculum.
Each child participates in two PE sessions per week and has the chance to join extra-curricular clubs led by staff and specialized coaches. Our PE lessons emphasize the acquisition, practice, and reinforcement of skills and knowledge, equipping children to lead healthy, active lives as they grow.
We adopt a holistic approach to physical activity, encouraging collaboration and partnerships to optimize resources and enhance our PE offerings. This ensures increased participation and achievement for all pupils. At Badsey First School, we are dedicated to keeping children physically active throughout the day and integrating active opportunities across the curriculum. We believe physical education should inspire creativity, competition, and cooperation while fostering a lifelong love for being active.
We celebrate our identity as an active school, aiming for all students to engage in physical activity every 45 minutes. This is supported through innovative methods like active Math and Spelling lessons, along with regular ‘brain breaks’ to refresh and energize learning.
Our goal is for every child to participate in extra-curricular clubs that enrich their experience and teach them the importance of maintaining a healthy body and mind through both the curriculum and PE lessons.
We follow the National Curriculum for PE in England
We have carefully mapped the PE curriculum so that it is progressive and children build upon their learning. Unit guides support teaching with core knowledge, disciplinary knowledge and vocabulary clearly defined.
Discover more about our PE Curriculum at Badsey from the documents below:
Physical Development in the Early Years
Physical Development, as opposed to Physical Education, is a core component of the Early Years curriculum - with a focus on both fine and gross motor development throughout the year. Gross motor development begins by concentrating on the fundamentals of balance, coordination and movement. Cooperation is also an early and important element of this curriculum - teaching children about the importance of team mates as early as we can. By the end of their time in the Early Years, pupils will have mastered a range of agility movements which they can apply to large equipment and dance, as well as mastering the beginnings of ball skills and throwing and catching. Children as young as Reception will understand what it feels like to be truly active and out of breath! Beyond their Real PE lessons, Reception pupils visit the Forest School once a week to develop their cooperation and coordination skills in a different environment.
PE in Key Stage 1 (Years 1 & 2)
Mastering the fundamentals is the main aim of PE in Key Stage 1 at Badsey. Children are taught to further develop their basic movements, coordination, stamina and core strength. These fundamentals are brought together in the full range of Real PE units as well as further lessons focusing on application of running, jumping, throwing and catching in a range of activities. In both Year 1 and Year 2, children spend time exploring the large gym apparatus and learn a dance.
PE in Key Stage 2 (Years 3, 4 and 5)
Swimming is introduced as part of the PE curriculum in Key Stage 2, with all children undertaking a ten week unit of swimming over the course of the academic year. Real PE lessons continue throughout this key stage. The curriculum develops through Years 3, 4 and 5 to focus on application of skills in more familiar sporting scenarios such as competitive games of hockey, football, tennis and cricket. By the end of Year 5, all children will have had many opportunities to develop their skills and knowledge & understanding in a full range of invasion games, striking and fielding games, gymnastics and dance. Badsey pupils become empathetic team mates as well as develop an understanding of the single-mindedness needed for professional athletes to succeed.
Extra-Curricular Sport
As a small school, we do our best to offer a range of extra-curricular sporting activities, beyond what is on offer in the mandatory curriculum. Some of these activities are provided by the school for free, whereas others are run by private companies on our site and may charge a fee. Our before and after school offer over the last three academic years, hosted by Badsey staff, includes:
Football Club, Netball Club, Cricket Club, Athletics Club, Hockey Club, Bat and Ball Club, Multi-skills, Dodgeball, Yoga, Running Club and Rounders Club.
Recent additional clubs hosted at Badsey include:
GLA Netball Tournament
In Spring 1, Year 4 and 5 children took part in a GLA Netball Tournament, at Rowanfield Primary School. The children played amazingly and they came 3rd overall. They represented Badsey First School fantastically. They should be incredibly proud of themselves.