Our PE syllabus (following GetSet4PE) is based on an enhanced model of the Early Years Framework and the National Curriculum with a clear progression structure from Reception to Year 6. This progression of skills has been planned in order to build on the skills needed to meet the end of Key Stage objectives in the National Curriculum.

In the Early Years Foundation Stage, PE, as well as being taught in structured lessons, is also intertwined into learning opportunities in the classroom and outdoor area at all times. As well as this, the sports coach leads intervention groups to support children with specific goals.

Additionally, an imperative element of the curriculum at Wolsey House shows a need for healthy lifestyles, a balanced diet, a positive growth mind-set and the resilience to persevere. Through enrichment such as after-school clubs and intra-school competitions, as well as out-of-school competitions and swimming, we aim to raise the profile of PE and expose our children to sports they may never have had the opportunity to engage with. We believe it is vital to expose children to a variety of sports at a young age if they are going to have a lifelong relationship with sport.

By creating a progressive curriculum that also introduces the children at Wolsey House Primary School to new activities, it is our intention that every child leaves Wolsey House with at least one sport that will stay with them for life.

GetSet4PE is used to aid teaching staff in their subject knowledge and planning of PE. Teachers are able to adjust and change lessons to suit the needs of their classes, but the scheme provides a strong basis of what is expected in each year group.

Each class has access to two hours of high-quality physical activity every week. The children are taught once a week by their class teacher and once a week by the Sports Coach (if this is timetabled). The Sports Coach lesson allows the Class Teacher time to: observe, assess, reflect on their own teaching and aid smaller groups to improve their fundamental skills.

Each lesson, children are given the opportunity to practise skills in a variety of ways and each lesson builds upon the previous skills, allowing them time to embed them. Different skills are recapped throughout, and across, the years, each time they are being built upon, allowing children to know more and remember more.

All of Key Stage 2 will receive swimming lessons throughout the year with the aim that by the end of Year 6 all children will be able to swim a minimum of 25m unassisted. These lessons take place at school via Pools4Schools over a 4-week period (potentially twice a year).

We subscribe to Inspire Together (previously Leicester SSPAN) and this allows the children to compete in football against other schools throughout the year. We run a Boys and Girls team and both have been successful in recent years. Wolsey House Primary School has also built relationships with other local clubs and coaches who provide our children with the opportunity to try sports they would never have tried before.

This year, we have bought into Enrich Education and SH Active Sports to enhance our offer of physical education. Enrich Education provides high-quality outdoor learning resources that allows us to use orienteering across the school and curriculum. SH Active Sports allows us to provide one afternoon a week of enrichment for our children and this again enhances the PE offer at Wolsey House.

As well as the wrap-around care, offered by an outside provider, we offer a wide range of sporting after-school clubs run by teaching staff. These clubs are free and they provide children with access to a wide range of sporting activities. These activities are chosen by pupils through class votes and pupil voice to ensure the clubs are successful and popular.