At Altrincham CE Primary School, we believe that every child can achieve the aims of the National Curriculum through a broad, balanced and progressive Physical Education curriculum. Our staff are committed to adapting learning to meet the needs of individuals and groups, ensuring that children build secure foundations before moving on. This may mean revisiting prior learning to strengthen knowledge, skills and understanding. We use the PE Passport scheme and assessment platform to support curriculum planning, progression and assessment, enabling teachers to track pupils’ development and identify next steps in learning. We are dedicated to developing the whole child, supporting physical, cognitive, social and emotional growth, while helping children to understand how to learn, apply and transfer their skills across different contexts.

Our PE curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge, develop skills and support progression, following the PE Passport scheme and assessment platform to ensure continuity, progression and effective assessment across all year groups. Using the principles of Assessment for Learning, teachers identify next steps and address misconceptions, with ongoing assessment through PE Passport helping to track progress, celebrate achievement and inform future teaching. Children experience a broad and balanced range of traditional and emerging sports and activities, developing physical competence, confidence, teamwork and resilience. Every child receives at least two hours of high-quality PE each week, including one lesson taught by a specialist PE teacher. Children wear their PE kits throughout the school day on PE days, maximising learning time and ensuring that no time is lost changing.

Inclusion and high expectations underpin our provision, ensuring that all pupils, including those with SEND, can access the same ambitious curriculum and achieve their potential. Activities are adapted using the STEP framework to provide appropriate support and challenge, with teaching responsive to pupils’ individual needs. A range of teaching strategies engages and motivates learners, while ongoing assessment informs teaching and helps pupils make progress. Children who are temporarily unable to participate physically remain actively involved through roles such as officiating, coaching and evaluating, supporting their understanding of tactics, teamwork and sportsmanship. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive, engaging and high-quality PE curriculum in which every child can participate, succeed and develop a lifelong enjoyment of physical activity.

Through our PE curriculum, children develop confidence, competence and enjoyment in physical activity while making progress across a range of learning domains. Careful monitoring of individuals, groups, classes and year groups allows us to identify strengths, celebrate success and provide timely support and challenge where needed. Assessment and evidence are recorded through the PE Passport app, enabling teachers to track progress over time, assess attainment against key objectives and use evidence, including observations, photographs and videos, to inform future teaching. Children understand how to improve their performance, work towards specific targets and recognise the value of perseverance and effort. We communicate progress and achievement with parents through both verbal and written feedback, and we ensure that every child's achievements are recognised, valued and celebrated.