PE and Sports

“An active brain cannot exist in an inactive body”

Intent: All children have the opportunity to enjoy being physically active, maintain a healthy lifestyle and using the medium of sport to increase their self-esteem. We aspire for children to adopt a positive mind-set and believe that anything can be achieved with determination and resilience.

At Moss Hey Primary School, we strongly believe that PE can help to develops a child’s knowledge, skill and understanding, so they are able to perform with increasing competence and confidence in a range of physical activities for the long-term. A varied curriculum (in-line with the National Curriculum) is in place to support this, with activities including dance, athletics, gymnastics, games, swimming and water safety and outdoor adventure activities. Teachers from Reception to Year 6 follow the Get Set 4 PE scheme of work to plan enriching lessons.

Physical education promotes an understanding in children of their bodies in action. It involves thinking, selecting and applying skills and promotes positive attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle. We want to inspire our pupils to make informed and healthy decisions about physical activities throughout their lives.

Through the teaching of PE at Moss Hey, we engage and challenge all of our children in a variety of ways, both through the curriculum we provide, and through our extra-curricular clubs, too. We use the knowledge and skills from coaches at Primary Sports Coaching (PSC) to help deliver lessons across Years 1 to 6. Through these, we want to:

Enable children to develop and explore physical skills with increasing control and co-ordination
Encourage children to work and play with others in a range of group situations
Develop the way children perform skills and apply rules and conventions for different activities
Show children how to improve the quality and control of their performance
Teach children to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise
Develop the children’s enjoyment of physical activity through creativity and imagination
Develop an understanding in children of how to succeed in a range of physical activities and how to evaluate their own success
Assess pupils’ learning, analyse and interpret the results to inform future planning and lessons

At Moss Hey, we see PE as vitally important in helping to contribute towards our children’s mental health and wellbeing. Our implementation sees each class partake in 2 hours of physical activity each week. In line with the National Curriculum, our long-term plan has been organised to meet the requirements of the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 programmes of study. Various games, dance and gymnastics units allow the children in Key Stage 1 to partake in a variety of team situations; to perform and master basic fundamental skills including throwing and catching, running and jumping and balance and agility. In Key Stage 2, children continue to develop these skills too, in competitive and non-competitive situations both within school and outside of school. Throughout the year, Year 3, 4 and 5 swim weekly for one term each at Hazel Grove Leisure Centre.

In Early Years, Physical Development is one of the prime areas of learning. Opportunities for the children to develop both their fine and gross motor skills are always available in both the indoor and outdoor learning environments and the provision set up by the teacher. The reception children also take part in weekly PE sessions during which time they begin to develop their fundamental movement skills.

At Moss Hey Primary, we encourage children to develop leadership skills through PE. Our Sports Ambassador team have a range of active roles throughout the week and year, helping to organise activities and games at a lunch time for all years in school, as well as assisting during intra-school competitions and Sports Week.

Our Sports Ambassadors for 2025-2026 are:

Caitlin, Lois, Sascha, Frankie, Millie, Ted, Jacob, Jack, Lucas, Evelyn, Will and Theo

During the Summer term, our Sports Week allows children to take part in a wide range of other physical activities and sports throughout the week. Children in all years from Reception to Year 6 also take part in Sports Day where they compete in a range of activities and skills.

At Moss Hey, we are supported by the Stockport SHAPES Alliance, which provides pupils from EYFS to Year 6 with the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of sporting events and festivals- during the school day, and extra-curricular- held across the region. These all introduce a more competitive element into sporting activities. We provide all children with a wide variety of extra-curricular sporting clubs, including football, dodgeball, karate, fitness, cheerleading and dance. We also have excellent links with our community and are therefore actively able to encourage wider involvement at the many sports clubs and teams with whom we connect with.

To allow all children the opportunity to apply their skills learnt into a competitive scenario, throughout the year we organise tournaments across year groups with the support of Sports Ambassadors to run them alongside our coaches and teachers.

This year, our tournaments are:

Autumn 1: Year 5&6 Dodgeball

Autumn 2: Year 5&6 Tag Rugby – Year 3&4 Basketball

Spring 1: Year 1&2 Target Games – Year 3&4 Cricket – Year 5&6 Cricket

Spring 2: Year 1&2 Invasion Games – Year 3&4 Tennis – Year 5&6 Tennis

Summer 1: Sports Week

Summer 2: Year 1&2 Net and Wall Games – Year 3&4 Rounders – Year 5&6 Rounders

We believe that because of everything we do, we have a positive impact on children’s outcomes, and, significantly, their mental health, especially linked with our My Happy Mind programme. We hope children finish at Moss Hey with an enjoyment of physical activity and sport which they want to carry on with.