At Paxton Academy, we want to prepare and encourage children to lead active lives, with confidence and a drive to maintain a high level of health and fitness. We aim to develop a love and passion for sport which will continue into the children’s later lives. Our approach is to empower children to make links between exercise and its positive impact on physical and mental well-being.
Paxton children are exposed to a wide range of individual and team games which build character and help to embed our school values such as teamwork, resilience and respect. PE lessons begin with a recapping of previous knowledge and skills to strengthen the learning and make links with upcoming lessons. Our enquiry-based lessons allow children to start the unit with a simplified skill that develops over the half term in a competitive environment with appropriate challenge.
Our lessons focus on the following three areas:
Motor competence, rules, strategies and tactics and healthy participation. Our development of children’s fundamental movement skills will ensure stability within future physical activities.
To ensure consistency throughout the school, leaders ensure that:
As a result of this, pupils make good progress from their starting points and teaching and learning is consistent.
