Physical Education at Medway Community Primary School

Medway Primary School believes that physical education experienced in a safe and supportive environment, is a unique and vital contributor to a pupil’s physical development and well-being. 

• We provide a broad and balanced physical education curriculum providing increasing self-confidence in their ability to manage themselves and their bodies within a variety of movement situations.

• Pupil voice plays a key role  within the PE curriculum, promoting a broad base knowledge, skills and understanding across a wide variety of sports and activities. PE encourages the development of independent life-long learners with children responding appropriately and sympathetically to others, irrespective of their age, gender, cultural or ethnic background.

• The activities offered and the teaching approaches adopted provide pupils with opportunities to develop their creative and expressive abilities, through improvisation and problem-solving. Pupils are encouraged to appreciate the importance of a healthy and fit body, and begin to understand those factors that affect health and fitness.

Physical Education & Values

Our PE curriculum is shaped by our school aims:

Together we succeed

Everyone's of equal worth

Achieve to your full potential

More diversity, more acceptance, a greater good

At Medway we believe our children should develop lifelong values and through this we have incorporated our school games values, British values and school values to help us shape our PE curriculum.

Here at Medway we are lucky to have our PE teacher Mr Ahmed assigned solely to Physical Education.

Mr Ahmed has a sports background and provides the school with good quality PE provision in addition to running after school clubs, competitive team games and intervention groups for fine motor skills.

Programme of Study

Your child will work in a session with Mr Ahmed at least once a week as part of the schools physical education covering the following schemes of work:

• Gymnastics

• Outdoor Adventurous Activities

• Multi Skills

• Dance

• Games

• Athletics

• Striking & Fielding

• Fitness

Year 5 children have swimming incorporated into their curriculum to support the national commitment that pupils should leave primary school able to swim 25m unaided and be knowledgeable and safe around water.

At lunch time the school advocates healthy play and uses Ms Condron to facilitate playground games that the children can learn and use.