Physical Education

A high-quality PE curriculum inspires all children to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. It should provide opportunities for all children to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness as well as developing values and transferrable life skills such as fairness and respect. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed such values and skills.

At Orchard Grove, our aim is to ensure all children enjoy and are engaged in PE and sport. Through PE we aim to develop the children’s knowledge, skills and understanding, so that they can perform skills with increasing confidence and competence in a range of physical activities. We aim to improve health and well-being, promote active participation and lifelong learning, and for each child to fulfil their potential.

We aim to ensure that the children’s experience of PE is positive and motivating and that children’s attitudes to a healthy lifestyle are firmly embedded in our curriculum.  Through a wide range of extra curricular activities offered at Orchard Grove, children get to further embed their PE learning.

At Orchard Grove we follow the Real PE curriculum when delivering PE because it is proven to increase teacher confidence, knowledge and skills as well as develop the following areas.

Engagement of all pupils:

Inclusive, progressive lessons that support and challenge EVERY child.

Raising the profile of PE: 

A coherent curriculum model that strengthens whole-school commitment to Physical Education.

Ensuring equal access:

A whole school approach designed so EVERY child can feel proud in PE.

Sustainable improvement: 

A structured curriculum and professional learning model that embeds long-term impact.

In practice, Real PE provides us with:

• A structured, progressive curriculum embedded across the school

• Ongoing professional learning that builds long-term staff confidence

• Clear assessment tools and impact monitoring which support accurate reporting and accountability

• A whole-school approach that supports consistency and continuity of provision and builds year on year

Sport Enrichment

Alongside our school based PE offer, pupils receive ample opportunity to participate in sports at an engagement and competitive level. This comes through our core enrichment offer and representing school teams at competitions with other schools.

Sports include: gymnastics, netball, orienteering, tennis, football, multi-skills, dance, swimming, 4 square, athletics, cricket.