Good practice

At recent PE seminars held around the country, HMIe gave a presentation picking out some examples of Best Practice within physical education in Scotland. What showed up was the range and quality of some of the well designed PE programmes across the country.

Many primary schools are implementing well structured Physical Education programmes with the help of subject specialists. What came out also was that games were well featured but there was a weaker emphasis on gymnastics and dance.

The view was that physical education was a relatively specialist area that is additional to other opportunities to be active. It was clear that, while children might have many opportunities to be active (play, walking, cycling, etc.), these opportunities in themselves did not enable children to develop their skills and competencies: this required high quality teaching, learning and curriculum frameworks.

This section contains clips exemplifying good practice within the primary curriculum.