Physical Education

 At Pelham, we want all pupils to:

• Be able to work co-operatively in a team.
• Develop and understand the importance of resilience and growth mindset.
• Be able to use and apply sportspersonship attitudes and qualities.
• Have an opportunity to participate in events and competitions, representing their school.
• Understand the benefits of exercise and sports on their mental health.
• Understand the benefits of exercise and sports in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
• Have an opportunity to develop their leadership skills.
• Be able to develop and progress their skills, regardless of level or ability.
• Have access to a full, wide ranging and inclusive curriculum.
• Be able to experience and develop skills, which are both fine motor and gross motor based.
• Understand the lifelong importance of being active.

To see a full breakdown of what we intend to teach through PE, and how we intend to do it, please click below.

PE Intent Statement

We will do this by:

• Entering in a variety of Borough, Development and Inclusive tournaments. 
• Organise friendlies with schools in our cluster.
• Organise Young Sports Leader mornings with cluster schools.
• Providing opportunities through a variety of sports units and varied equipment. 
• Young Sports Leaders and House Captains leading our Key Stage 1 and Early Years Sports Days.
• Upholding REFSPECT values in our PE lessons.

Swimming

We are hugely proud of our swimming provision at Pelham and are constantly working in conjunction with our local swimming centre and borough to provide children with high-quality swimming lessons, as part of their PE curriculum. 

Recently, we have implemented the intensive swimming program which involves children swimming everyday for two weeks for an hour instead of every week for half an hour, as we previously offered. We found it to have a significant impact on the children's rate of progress, and their love of swimming- our students were clamouring to get to the part of their school day when they could go swimming! The program is for children in Year 3 who complete 2 two-week swimming blocks, once in the Spring Term and once in the Summer Term. 

By the end of Year 3, those children who have not reached the Government stipulated targets to swim 25 metres using one stroke or more, and perform a safe self-rescue, will complete a further two-week block of swimming lessons in Year 4. 

Every year, we attend the Merton Swimming Borough Championships. We have been hugely successful in the previous galas, winning last year two Borough Finals. It was an amazing day with such great success. 

The children love this event and have a fantastic time. We were so proud of their effort, commitment and sportsmanship, and cannot wait for the next event! 

Curriculum Guidance

At Pelham, children enjoy two 60 minute PE lessons per week, where one lesson is indoor whilst the second lesson is outside. Working together with the Merton School Sport Partnership (MSSP), we continually develop our PE Scheme of Work to ensure that all our pupils receive high quality PE lessons in line with the latest teaching pedagogy. 

To see what the current curriculum looks like for this year, 2023-24, click on the link below.

PE Curriculum Overview

For a detailed description of the skills addressed in each Key Stage, click here to download the National Curriculum for PE. 

Sports Premium

Every year, schools receive PE and sport premium funding to promote additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport they offer.

To read about how we have used this funding over the last year and our plans for the current year, click on the links below.

Premium Sports Funding 2023-24

Purpose of the funding

We have to spend the sport funding on improving our provision of PE and sport, but have some freedom to choose how we do this.

Possible uses of the funding include:

• Hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE.
• Providing cover for staff to take children to Borough/Development Competitions and Inclusive Festivals.
• New or additional sport clubs.
• Paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport.
• Providing cover to release teachers for professional development in PE/sport.
• Running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games.
• Buying quality assured professional development modules or material for PE/sport.
• Providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and residential visits.