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Physical Education
At Guilden we believe that PE is a vital part of educating the whole child, ensuring that they have the skills, knowledge and understanding to lead a healthy life now and in the future. We believe that PE provides children with the opportunity to learn about physiology, health, well-being, relationships and personal target setting and challenges. This could be within competitive sports, PE lessons, fitness activities or a range of other outdoor activities. We aim to provide a PE curriculum that children from EYFS to Year 6 enjoy and fully participate in but which also allows them to experience a range of activities that help them to develop their health, fitness and wellbeing. We intend to offer a high-quality physical education curriculum that inspires all children to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. It provides opportunities for children to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness, teamwork, resilience and respect.
As a school, we recognise that children come to PE with a range of experiences and abilities and make sure that all children are fully supported within PE whatever their needs medical, physical, SEND or well-being. PE at Guilden is fully inclusive and recognises and supports everyone.
We have mapped out our progressive and well sequenced PE curriculum using units from Complete PE to cater for our mixed year groups over a two-year cycle, which includes swimming lessons for all pupils from Reception onwards in the last summer term, in our own swimming pool at school.