Physical Education

PE, Sport and Physical Activity in School. 04/08/2025 Thank you for your patience - this page is being updated over the summer.

Welcome to the PE, Sport and Physical Activity Page.

Below you will find information on:

• PE Curriculum at Bretherton

• Declaration of the PE Sports Premium Spend.

• Current year subject priorities for 2025 - 2026

• PE Policy information inc PE clothing and earring policy

• Skills roadmaps

• Vocabulary in PE information

• The importance of Fundamental Movement Skills

• Information on bikeability and how to help your child stay safe.

• Bretherton PE and the connection to Spriritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Skills.

We really hope you can find all the details you need here but if you have any questions please do get in touch with Mrs Glew via reception.

PE Curriculum at Bretherton

School Aims (INTENT)

The School's aims for Physical Education are:

• Provide a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum that satisfies the needs of the current National Curriculum and provide pupils with appropriate challenge with acceptable risk.

• Develop a whole school approach to physical development which takes pupils through progressive stages of learning and challenge, enabling them to fulfil their potential, develop competence and control in the gross and fine motor skills that pupils need to take part in PE and sport.

• Ensure pupils have the opportunity to demonstrate that they know and understand how to apply their competence and make appropriate decisions for themselves by challenging pupils to select and use skills, tactics and compositional ideas.

• Provide pupils with opportunities to use imaginative ways to express and communicate ideas, solve problems and overcome challenges, both as individuals and as part of a team or group.

• Ensure pupils understand that PE and Sport are and important part of a healthy, active lifestyle and understand the contribution physical activity has on having a healthy body and mind.

• Develop pupils' stamina, suppleness, strength and the mental capacities of determination and resilience.

• Develop an environment in which pupils have the confidence to get involved in PE and Sport and are committed to make it a central part of their lives both in and out of school.

• Provide an out of school hours programme of activities which extends and enriches curriculum provision and provides opportunity for activities to enable pupils to make sufficient progress to access curriculum sessions with greater success.

• Provide opportunities for competition appropriate to the stage of the individual pupil's development.

• Ensure that pupils enjoy PE and school sport and establish community links and pathways for pupils to engage in life-long participation.

• Provide links to other areas of the curriculum and wider school, county and national agendas.
  

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Declaration of the PE Sports Premium Spend.

Please find below how we purposefully used the National PE Sports Premium Spend in 2024-2025.

Current year subject priorities for 2025 - 2026

Add summary of current year priorities.

PE Policy inc PE clothing and earring policy (updated July 2025)

Skills roadmaps

The below roadmaps show how the skills in each subject progress throughout each year group.

Vocabulary in PE information

The files below show the vocabulary that we will be using and expect children to use throughout the Key stages of their school journey.

The importance of Fundamental Movement Skills

Information on bikeability and how to help your child stay safe

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Bretherton PE and the connection to Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Skills.

Physical education, sport and activity impact the whole child in numerable ways, here we have tried to show some of the links to their learning.

Keep until updated.

Our current year priorities for 2023 2024 are:

• provide in and out of school sports activities in competitive opportunities

• Embed fully the daily mile initiative for every class through the purchase of a running track through sports premium money

• To facilitate further targeted CPD for all staff on the Succeedin platform

• Further develop assessment online

• To review WLSP overview and try and plan a consistent 2 year rolling programme rather than school having to change each year according to coaches.

• Ensure quality of WLSP PE is highest standards

• Set up a 2 year benchmarking of fundamental skills to track fitness ( annually is too onerous for staff and school and not showing any more impact than a 2 year cycle may)

• Widen the sport opportunities to include badminton, tennis and table tennis 

• Use technology to support assessments and feedback in PE

• Develop oracy in PE

If you would like to find our more, please ask for Mrs Vanessa Glew or Mrs Alison Moxham

Implementation
PE at Bretherton Endowed is taught by a combination of class teachers, PE specialists and qualified sports coaches. Children have equal opportunities to take part in a range of sports and physical activities within a supportive environment where effort as well as success is recognised. Children are encouraged to participate in exercise through-out the day during PE lessons, clubs, outdoor learning, lunch provision and special events. We operate a Daily Mile initiative called Bretherton Blast which builds stamina, resilience, challenge and target setting as well as overall fitness. At Bretherton Endowed the PE curriculum is planned through skills which is structured to provide a range of sports experiences during which every child participates to develop their skills and learning through competitive, team and individual sports. Through our provision children can aim to flourish at sports in which they have a particular interest or flair for. We sport , encourage and develop talents in particular sports and build inclusivity through opportunities for all to compete and represent our school.

Children with additional needs are provided with appropriate support to enable them to take part and gain confidence in skills, understanding and motivation. Pysical Exercise is a right for all.

We teach the National Curriculum, supported by a clear skills and knowledge progression. This ensures that skills and knowledge are built on year by year and sequenced appropriately to maximise learning for all children.Children in Class 2 ( Year 2/3 ) have a full year of swimming over a 2 year period.

Impact

• The ability to acquire new knowledge and skills exceptionally well and develop an in-depth understanding of PE.
  - The willingness to practise skills in a wide range of different activities and situations, alone, in small groups and in teams and to apply these skills in chosen activities to achieve exceptionally high levels of performance.
  - High levels of physical fitness.
  - A healthy lifestyle, achieved by eating sensibly, avoiding smoking, drugs and alcohol and exercising regularly.
  - The ability to remain physically active for sustained periods of time and an understanding of the importance of this in promoting long-term health and well-being.
  - The ability to take the initiative and become excellent young leaders, organising and officiating, and evaluating what needs to be done to improve, and motivating and instilling excellent sporting attitudes in others.
  - Exceptional levels of originality, imagination and creativity in their techniques, tactics and choreography, knowledge of how to improve their own and others’ performance and the ability to work independently for extended periods of time without the need of guidance or support.
  - A keen interest in PE. A willingness to participate eagerly in every lesson, highly positive attitudes and the ability to make informed choices about engaging fully in extra-curricular sport.
  - The ability to swim at least 25 metres before the end of Year 6 and knowledge of how to remain safe in and around water

EYFS

In the Early Years Foundation Stage, children begin to improve their movement skills. Teachers begin to develop their agility, balance and coordination.

Key stage 1

Pupils develop their movement skills. They extend their agility, balance and coordination. They engage in competitive and cooperative physical activities. These include games, dance and gymnastics.

Key stage 2

Pupils continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills such as running, jumping, throwing and catching. They use these skills in competitive games and performances. They also evaluate their own and others’ work. Pupils communicate and collaborate with each other. They learn how to improve in physical activities. There are many chances for children to take part in competitions in school and against other schools. We celebrate their successes. 

All school

In all year groups we encourage and facilitate competative sports both in school through intra competitions and out of school through our cluster and school games opportunities. We encourage participation in grass root clubs locally and promote district competitions for our more able. We celebrate weekly in worship sporting achievements outside of school in a variety of sports , currently, swimming, rugby, football at regional level and horse riding.

P.E. lessons comprise of dance, gymnastics, games, athletics and outdoor activities.  A range of resources is used to support teaching and learning in P.E.  Small and large apparatus is used in indoor lessons in the hall, as well as CDs to support dance activities.  A variety of dance traditions is taught.

The school has extensive grassed areas, which are used for sports, particularly in the summer term.  We also benefit from some outside tuition in sports from professional coaches purchased through the sports funding for schools. We sources funding for a Multi Use games Area in May 2020.

We believe that a high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. We aim for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness and that opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.

Using our sports funding we have bought into West Lancs Sports Partnership coaching programme to provide the following opportunities:

• Dance

• Tag Rugby

• Football (including league matches)

• Cricket (including Quick Cricket competitions)

• Tennis (including tennis events)

• Balance Bikes

• Bikeability

• Schools Competitions

• Change4life: Health and Well-Being activities including a bag of resources

• Training for Young Play Leaders

• Gymnastics

• Orienteering

This is in addition to activities we already provide, including:

• Two PE sessions for each child per week

• 2 year groups receive a weekly swimming lesson for more tfour terms over 2 years to exceed National Curriculum expectations

• A residential outdoor activity weekend at Robinwood; Hothersall Lodge

• Annual sports day (competitive)

• Football and netball after-school clubs (run by parents and staff);

• the opportunity to join after-school activies, Street Dance, Zumba, Jujitzu, Fencing, cricket clubs (paid for by parents);

• ‘Bikeability’ for Y6

• Football / Netball friendly competitions (home and away matches) linked to TARDIS cluster of schools

• variety of after school and lunch time coaching sessions

• sponsored events and theme sessions involving sports and fitness

• Yoga and massage

• Daily mile initiative

• Active lunchtime 

• Specialists coaches in cricket, golf , rugby and football.

We have created stepping stones to enable us to measure progress and ensure high expectations of our children in PE

Our Sports Ambassadors support our sports provision as does our involvement with TARDiS Thrive