Dundonald Primary School

PE - Teaching & Learning

Curriculum Intent

At Dundonald Primary School we deliver high quality teaching and learning opportunities that inspire all children to succeed in physical education. Our curriculum improves the wellbeing and fitness of all our pupils. We participate in inter house and inter school sports competitions. Through healthy competition, we will encourage children to co-operate and collaborate with others, understand the importance of good sportsmanship and promote resilience and self-esteem. To encourage positive wellbeing, we teach children to cope with both success and failure in competitive, individual and team based physical activities. We encourage the children to develop their abilities to excel in a range of physical abilities and understand the importance of leading a healthy, active lifestyle. 

Curriculum Implementation

Dundonald Primary School has worked hard over the past few years to ensure that PE and Sport within the school is at the centre of promoting a varied and diverse sports curriculum.

Working alongside local primary schools and with Merton School Sports Partnership (MSSP), we strive to develop and enhance the teaching and learning of PE and Sport in school as part of the curriculum and as part of the school’s extra-curricular provision.

We aim to ensure that children:

  • develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
  • are physically active for sustained periods of time
  • engage in competitive sports and activities
  • lead healthy, active lives.

For further details of what your child will be doing in PE this term please refer to their year group’s medium term plan.

Swimming

We are incredibly proud of our swimming provision at Dundonald Primary School and are collaborating closely with our local swimming centre and borough.

Children in Year 3 & 4 will complete a two-week swimming block in the Spring and Summer terms. This will allow the children to swim every day for an hour instead of every week for half an hour. After trialling this two-week swimming block we have found that the intensive course has a more significant impact on children’s ability and progress enabling children to learn fundamental skills of swimming and safety in the water. Alongside the fact the children thoroughly enjoy being able to visit the pool every day for two weeks.

 

Merton School Sport Mark

Dundonald Primary School received the Merton School Sport Mark Recognition Award in 2021 for the school's commitment to physical education, physical activity and school sport during the Covid-19 pandemic. Recent achievements included the Platinum Award in 2024/25. 

Supporting our efforts to reach Merton School Sport Mark Awards, we make use of PE/Sports Premium funding. Details of how this funding is used and its impact can be found in the 'PE and Sports Premium' section. 

Competitive Sport

We continue to expand participation in competitive sport. We initiate and attended regular inter-school competitions in our area as well as continuing to run intra-school competitions. Throughout the year we have regular House events, where children compete against one another as a culmination of the work they have done in PE lessons.

Children can participate in a range of extra-curricular activities at school. Some of these clubs are run by staff and others are run by local sports clubs or coaches. For a list of clubs in the area please see the link below.

To ensure that more children have the opportunity to represent Dundonald this year, we are monitoring participation in events more rigorously. A and B teams will represent our school in competitions whenever possible with a trial taking place before each event. Children are able to sign up in the week leading up to the trial with success criteria clearly explained to children. Attitude, performance and sportsmanship in PE and clubs are also taken into account when selecting teams. There are also a number of inclusive events which allows those children not selected for teams to compete in borough-wide competitions throughout the year.

For further details of upcoming competitions as well as results and write ups of competitions we have participated in, please click on the link www.mertonssp.org.uk.

Curriculum Map

PE Curriculum Map

 

Skills Progression

PE Progression of Skills

 

Sports Premium Report

Sports Premium Report