Curriculum Leader – Matthew Downey
Sequential Rolling Programme
PE at Arbour Vale School plays a vital role in enhancing students’ physical, emotional, and social development. It strengthens motor skills, coordination, and overall fitness while fostering confidence, independence, and teamwork. Through structured activities, students engage in skill-building, exploration, and recreational sports, creating a sense of achievement and well-being. Our tailored curriculum ensures inclusivity, allowing every student to progress at their own pace in a safe and supportive environment.
We cater for a wide range of physical and cognitive abilities and through our PE curriculum we offer differentiated, inclusive teaching and learning techniques will facilitate the learner’s needs across all key stages allowing flexibility to progress at their own rate.
PE – Aims and Intended Outcomes
PE at Arbour Vale School promotes exploration and skill development in a supportive and inclusive setting. Through engaging activities, students enhance their physical literacy skills and develop motor skills. Participating in games that build tactical awareness is also available through our formal curriculum. Additionally, PE encourages recreational sports and leisure activities, supporting lifelong health, social interaction, and overall well-being.
Dependant on the needs of the learners, the curriculum they access will be the most appropriate, whether that be pre-formal, semi-formal or formal.
Pupils with profound and complex learning difficulties engage in a holistic approach to learning, which includes weekly sessions in the hydrotherapy pool and soft play area, alongside a dedicated PE lesson with a specialist teacher which focuses on pupils’ sensory and physical needs suited to their stage of development.
EYFS (Incorporating KS1):
Follow the Birth 2 Five matters, physical development framework that focuses on the following;
- Explore a broad range of physical activities
- Physically active and engaged in physical activities
- Enjoy being physically active
- Communicate emotions when engaged in physical activity
- Engage in the development of basic movements
- Developing balance, agility and co-ordination
- Encourage the use of SCERTS and SCIP approach
- Begin to recognise ways to celebrate success
- Pre-Formal curriculum: Individual sensory and physical targets from PHLO plans
KS2:
- Develop ability in a broad range of physical activities
- Physically active for increased periods of time
- Engage in physical activities
- Knowledge of how to be physically active
- Working in parallel and being physically active with a peer or adult
- Communicating requests for preferred activities
- Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation
- Explore parallel play through Sports Ability
- Developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
- Explore a range of movement patterns through dance
- Communicate choice when engaged in physical activity e.g. Yes, No, More, Stop
- Celebrate success
- Pre-Formal curriculum: Individual sensory and physical targets from PHLO plans
KS3:
- Develop competence in a broad range of physical activities
- Physically active in a focussed/preferred activity for increased periods of time
- Begin to develop organisational skills
- Begin to develop leadership skills (SLD/MLD learners)
- Recognise changes in the body when physically active
- Engage in team games through Sports Ability
- Begin to develop and demonstrate a knowledge of tactics through Sports Ability (SLD/MLD)
- Develop technique through control, power and accuracy
- Recognise how to improve across a range of physical activities.
- Copy and repeat movement patterns through dance
- Developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and apply these in a range of activities
- Recognise own success
- Pre-Formal curriculum: Individual sensory and physical targets from PHLO plans
KS4:
- Demonstrate competence in a broad range of physical activities
- Physically active in a focussed/preferred activity for increased periods of time
- Demonstrate organisational skills
- Develop leadership skills (SLD/MLD as appropriate)
- Knowing what changes happen to the body when participating in physical activity
- Develop their technique and improve their performance in sports ability and other physical activities
- Know/recognise how to improve across a range of physical activities to achieve their personal best
- Recognise own and others success
- Start to use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in direct competition through team games and individual (if possible)
- Individual sensory and physical targets from PHLO plans/annual review
