Physical education promotes personal, social, intellectual and physical skills and, at school, it attempts to foster co-operation, tolerance and self-esteem. Our school promotes enjoyment in undertaking exercise for all pupils as a vital part of developing a healthy lifestyle.

The key aims of Physical Education in our school are for children to:

• 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 different and creative ways.
• 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 environments.
• Take the initiative, lead an 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.