Physical Education (PE)
At Heath Hayes Primary Academy, we deliver an exciting and dynamic PE curriculum in partnership with Progressive Sports, providing our children with the opportunity to develop a wide range of physical skills and a love for sport. Each week, children receive high-quality PE lessons, either from their class teacher or specialist coaches, ensuring they experience a variety of teaching techniques and sports. From Early Years to Year 6, our pupils build their fundamental movement skills, applying these to a range of games and competitions, including our much-anticipated Sports Day, fostering healthy competition and teamwork.
Throughout the lessons, we emphasise the importance of exercise and its positive impact on the body, using high-quality vocabulary to help children understand how physical activity supports their overall well-being. Additionally, targeted interventions are in place to support children who may need further development, ensuring that all pupils can thrive in PE and continue to enhance their skills.
At Heath Hayes Primary Academy, we are committed to inspiring a lifelong love of physical activity, ensuring that every child develops the confidence, skills, and enthusiasm to lead a healthy and active lifestyle. Through our inclusive and supportive approach, we aim to nurture not only physical fitness but also teamwork, resilience, and a sense of achievement in every child.
School Sports Premium Funding
The Government is providing each primary school throughout England with additional funding which is to be spent on improving the sports provision within schools. At Heath Hayes Academy we believe a high quality PE curriculum should be an integral part of the whole school curriculum and one that staff, pupils and parents understand and can contribute to. Our school recognises the values that a high quality PE and school sport curriculum gives pupils.
The main aims of this funding from the Government are:
- To improve the quality and breadth of P.E. in schools
- Increasing children’s participation in sport
- To promote healthy lifestyles by children
- To have better outcomes for children in their attitudes to sport and performance in sport
At Heath Hayes Academy our priorities in using this extra funding, plus funds and staffing from our existing budget are:
- To improve the physical education experience for all children in our school
- To increase physical activity opportunities for our children
- To enable our children to enjoy a range of school sport outside of the curriculum
- To ensure access for all children to high quality physical education lessons to develop fitness, stamina, health and well-being