From September 2026, our PE curriculum is changing.

Intent

Studham Village CE Academy recognises and values the importance of Physical Education (P.E) and Sports.

PE and Sport at Studham aims to provide our children with a high-quality physical education curriculum that inspires all pupils to succeed in competitive sports and other physically-demanding activities.

We do this through fully adhering to the aims of the National Curriculum for Physical Education to ensure that all children:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities

• are physically active for sustained periods of time

• engage in competitive sports and activities

• lead healthy, active lives

It is our intention to offer a curriculum that enables children to develop knowledge, skills and vocabulary in a broad range of sporting activities, as well as developing values and transferrable life skills such as tolerance, fairness and respect.

Through enrichment activities and internal school competitions, we aim to raise the profile of PE and expose our children to sports they may never have had the opportunity to engage with.

Our PE Curriculum is based on the National Curriculum with a clear progression structure. This progression of skills has been planned in order to build on the skills needed to meet the objectives in the National Curriculum.

We are passionate about the need to teach children how to co-operate and collaborate with others, as part of a team, understanding fairness and equity of play to embed life-long values.

Implementation

The PE curriculum provides structured, lessons that link with the National Curriculum. It is used to plan and develop teaching by our teachers. Teachers are able to adjust and change lessons to suit the needs of their classes but the planned curriculum provides a strong basis of what is expected in each year group. Each class has access to two hours of physical activity every week, made up of an indoor and outdoor sessions (weather dependent). Sometimes we have external coaches in school to teach specialist sessions of PE, which our staff are involved with to support their professional development.  Through the use of coaches, fun and innovative sessions are run that offer staff the chance to upskill their own practice. Each lesson, children are given the opportunity to develop skills in a variety of ways and each lesson builds upon the previous skills, allowing them time to embed it. Different skills are recapped throughout, and across, the years, each time they are being built upon; allowing children to know more and remember more.

 Impact

Our curriculum aims to improve the wellbeing and fitness of all children at Studham; not only through the sporting skills taught, but through the underpinning values and disciplines that PE promotes.