Gateway Academy PE & Games
Curriculum Intent
At Gateway Academy we recognise the value of Physical Education (P.E). We fully adhere to the aims of the national curriculum for physical education to ensure that all pupils:
- 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
We aim to give the children the fundamental skills that they will need and the ability to apply these skills to both individual and team games. We believe that not only should children have the physical skills but also the ability to be resilient, recognise their areas of development and take pride in their achievements. We want our children to have the opportunities to discover new interest and talents that enhance pupil cultural development.
We want children to:
- Become skillful and intelligent performers
- Acquire and develop skills, performing with increasing physical competence and confidence, in a range of physical activities and contexts
- Learn how to select and apply skills, tactics and compositional ideas to suit activities that need different approaches and ways of thinking
- Develop their ideas in a creative way
- Set targets for themselves and compete against others, individually and as team members
- Understand what it takes to persevere, succeed and acknowledge others’ success
- Respond to a variety of challenges in a range of physical contexts and environment
- Take the initiative, lead activity and focus on improving aspects of their own performance
- Discover their own aptitudes and preferences for different activities
- Make informed decisions about the importance of exercise in their lives
- Develop positive attitudes to participation in physical activity
- Encourage enjoyment through physical activities
- Provide through experience, knowledge and understanding about the relationship between health and physical education
- Work with others, listening to their ideas and treating them with respect
- Co-operate and collaborate with others, in teams and groups, to achieve a goal together
- Develop an understanding of fair play and fairness though knowing and applying rules and conventions.
The Curriculum
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
We recognise the importance of physical development in the Early Years Foundation Stage as a key area of learning. There are two strands under Physical Development: Moving and Handling and Health and Self-care. We encourage the children to develop confidence and control of the way they move, and the way they handle tools and equipment. We give all children the opportunity to undertake activities that offer appropriate physical challenge, both indoors and outdoors, using a wide range of resources to support specific skills.
Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
Children are supported to develop fundamental movement skills. They are taught to:
- Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
- Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
- Perform dances using simple movement patterns.
Key Stage 2 (Years 3 to 6)
Children continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.
Children are taught to:
- Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
- Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
- Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance [for example, through athletics and gymnastics]
- Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
- Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
- Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.
Swimming and water safety
At Key Stage 2 children are taught to:
- Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- Use a range of strokes effectively
- Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.
The curriculum overview for the school is as follows:
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Term 1 |
Term 2 |
Term 3 |
Term 4 |
Term 5 |
Term 6 |
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Reception |
Physical literacy Balance and movement
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Physical literacy Rolling, sliding and slithering Jumps – take offs and landings |
Gymnastics Jumping, sliding, rolling and moving over under and on apparatus |
Dance Simple movement patterns to music |
Gymnastics Lean and refine shapes, jumps, balances and rolls |
Dance Refine movement patterns to music |
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Year 1 |
Feet
Games for Understanding
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Hands
Body Parts
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Hands
Jumping
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Wide, Narrow, Curled
Rainbow Fish
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Skipping
Running
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Team Building
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Year 2 |
Feet
Games for Understanding
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Team Building
Hands
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Explorers
Dodging
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Linking
Hands |
Jumping
Skipping
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Rackets, Bats and Balls
Team Building
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Year 3 |
Netball
Witches and Wizards |
Dodgeball
Tag Rugby
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Wild Animals
Game, Sense Invasion |
Symmetry & Asymmetry
Football |
Athletics
Skipping
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Rounders
Weather
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Year 4 |
Netball
Bridges
Swimming |
Netball
Mindfulness
Swimming |
Space
Football
Swimming
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Running
Football
Swimming
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Skipping
Cricket
Swimming |
Throwing and Jumping
Cricket
Swimming
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Year 5 |
Counter Balance and Tension
Netball |
Health Related Exercise
Basketball |
The Circus
Football |
Running
Dodgeball
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Rounders
Skipping
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Running and Jumping
Cricket
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Year 6 |
Matching & Mirroring
Cricket
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Health Related Exercise
Netball |
Titanic
Football
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Leadership Skills
Basketball
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Skipping
Rounders
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Competitions
Throwing and Catching |
Recent Projects
Gateway Students take on cross-country!
24 Gateway students were selected to take part in a cross-country competition against many other schools in Westminster.
Year 3 and 4 students ran an impressive 1km and year 5 and 6 students ran 1.5km. All students performed very well and enjoyed cheering each other on!
Year 5 and 6 boys were awarded third place overall.
Gateway Students meet cricket legends!
Recently 18 lucky children were chosen to be filmed at Lords Cricket Ground as part of the All-Stars Cricket Program.
The footage taken will be shown across cricket grounds in England, on their website and possibly even television!
Children also had an opportunity to have a Q&A session with England and Middlesex cricketers. The children were able to collect the autographs of a number of cricketers.
A big thank you must go to Middlesex Cricket for choosing Gateway Academy. Well done everyone involved!
How Parents Can Help
To get the most out of indoor PE lessons it is important that the children wear appropriate clothing to allow a full range of movement. All children are expected to wear the correct PE kit to school on the day they have their PE and Games lesson. The correct kit is a white T-shirt and black shorts or track-suit pants. Parents can also help by trying to ensure that children have a healthy and balanced diet.
Parents should try to encourage children to engage in physical exercise out of school hours in order to maintain a basic level of fitness.
Further Support And Useful Weblinks
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Club/Provider |
Sport |
Website |
Contact Details/Sign Up/Find Out More |
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Serpentine Running Club |
Athletics |
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London Basketball Association |
Basketball |
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London Knights Basketball Club |
Basketball |
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Safe Haven Basketball |
Basketball (inclusive) 14 years and over |
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Stars Boxing Club |
Boxing |
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Rathbone Boxing Club |
Boxing |
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The Angels Academies |
Cheerleading |
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Step Change studios |
Dance (inclusive) |
contact@stepchangestudios.com |
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Disability Sports Coach |
Disability Multi-Sports |
https://disabilitysportscoach.co.uk/community-clubs/club-westminster/ |
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Hilal Rangers FC |
Football |
https://do-it.westminster.gov.uk/organisations/hilal-rangers-youth-football-club |
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057394991900&fref=photo |
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Little Kickers |
Football |
Football for 18months to 7 years old. Type your postcode |
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Pro Touch Soccer Academy |
Football |
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QPR in the Community |
Football |
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Queen's Park Gardens Community Hub |
Football |
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Sport London e Benfica FC |
Football |
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London Tigers |
Football / Multi sports |
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City of London Gymnastics |
Gymnastics |
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Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club |
Hockey |
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Central London Lacrosse |
Lacrosse |
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Britannia Shotokan |
Martial Arts |
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Koryo Taekwondo Academy |
Martial Arts |
079 100 614 81 |
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Greenhouse Sports |
Multi-Sport |
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London Sports Trust |
Multi-sport |
02087351589 or email info@londonsportstrust.org |
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Step up 2 Fitness |
Multi-sports |
https://www.connectsport.co.uk/step-2-fitness |
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Parkour Generations |
Parkour/Freerunning |
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Chelsea & Westminster Swim Club |
Swimming |
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Seymour Synchro Swim School |
Swimming |
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Polonia Ladies Volleyball Club |
Volleyball |
https://polonialadiesvolleyball.co.uk/polonia-sideout-juniors/ |
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Westminster Volleyball Club Ltd |
Volleyball |