Physical Education

At Manorside Academy, we believe all children should have access to a high-quality Physical Education (PE) curriculum and PE should be an integral part of the whole school curriculum. Our school recognises the benefits high quality PE provision and school sport can give to all pupils. Our PE curriculum aims to ensure that all pupils develop physical literacy and the fundamental knowledge, understanding and skills to excel in a wide range of physical activities, by providing a broad and balanced curriculum with opportunities for all. Our PE curriculum will contribute to healthy and active lifestyles; improve emotional wellbeing, reduce challenging behaviour, increase attendance and develop key skills such as leadership, confidence, social and team building skills. 

Our school aims to inspire all children to develop a love of physical activity and sport. Through good physical education, whole school values and a whole child approach, we aim to nurture confident, resilient children who will strive for their personal best. We listen to our children wants and needs and provide them with a range of active experiences and clubs. Please see our ‘clubs’ section on our website.

We want to aid our children in obtaining the values and skills to celebrate and respect the success of others, as well as modestly celebrating their own successes. We aim to ensure that our delivery of physical education following Get Set 4 PE allows all children to have the skills and mindset to leave primary school with the capabilities to be successful in their sporting challenges and active lifestyles at secondary school and beyond. We strive to educate both our children and families to develop a greater understanding on how to live healthy lifestyles and make healthy choices. We are dedicated to ensuring healthy minds, as well as bodies and will continue to support our children’s well-being. 

We will endeavour to provide opportunities for pupils to participate in competitive sports and activities both in and beyond the curriculum. Within our Trust we participate in a range of sports competitively against one another. We also work alongside Bournemouth School events and participate in the events they have scheduled such as football tournaments, netball tournament, ‘can do’ events, swimming galas, multi skills etc.

PE will develop not only physical literacy and physical skills, but it will allow pupils to learn about themselves, the importance of a healthy, active lifestyle, self-expression and concepts such as fair play and respect. It will also contribute to the development of a range of important cognitive skills, such as decision making and analysis, and social skills such as teamwork and communication.

Each child is assessed each half term using Get Set 4 PE for all staff across the school to refer to and use as part of their planning process. The assessments then give staff the areas that they need to develop further or deepen pupils’ knowledge in. These children can also be invited to clubs which will support these development areas to build their confidence and skills. Pupils are continuously assessed throughout each lesson, through high level questioning, peer feedback and self-assessing. Teachers then use this information within the session and to inform the next lesson. 

Please see here for the list of After School Clubs we offer our pupils this term –  

We consider it important that our children ‘learn to lead’ and therefore we offer our pupils the opportunity to lead activities during their time in school. This can be in the role as Sports Leaders, Sports Monitors or Prefects. Leadership gives children the understanding of what it is like to have responsibility, to show respect for rules and brings the added challenge of organisation, communication and teamwork.