PRIMARY
PHYSICAL EDUCATION

PRIMARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Physical education is an essential component of a balanced school curriculum. Regular exercise enhances both physical and mental health, and increasing evidence suggests it also boosts academic performance across various subjects. Developing good exercise habits in primary school lays the foundation for an active and healthy lifestyle.

What Will Students Learn?

This subject focuses on learning to move and moving to learn. Learners will develop skills through a variety of age-appropriate physical activities, including games, gymnastics, and dance. As individuals and team members, they will:

• Gain confidence, moving with increased control, fluency, and variety.
• Enhance their understanding of concepts, rules, tactics, strategies, and compositional ideas.
• Participate in respectful and responsible ways, ensuring appropriate and safe engagement.
• Improve their knowledge of how physical education contributes to a healthy and active lifestyle.
• Develop transferable skills that promote physical, cognitive, and social development, becoming independent, critical, and reflective movers and thinkers.

Students will cultivate creative skills that will benefit many aspects of their future learning and development. The course prepares them for progression to Lower Secondary Physical Education.

How Is the Programme Taught?

The subject is taught through a wide range of tasks, challenges, and physical activities. It encompasses cooperative, competitive, athletic, adventurous, and health-based contexts suitable for each learning stage.

Learners will engage in activities designed to promote their confidence, self-esteem, cognitive abilities, and social skills, ensuring they are moving for as much of each lesson as possible.

The programme is intended to complement, not replace, coaching in specific sports or physical activities.