Physical Education

Aims

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Project aims

The following aims incorporate all three of Highland Council's pilot projects (Charleston, Fortrose and Nairn): 

  • Increase the PE time in the schools towards 120 minutes of high quality PE for all children. This will be measured against baseline data being collected for the SEED survey.

  • Allow for more choice in secondary schools by utilising PE teachers, specialist coaches and dancers to engage pupils in a wider variety of activities from which they can choose. The types of additional activities will be decided through discussion with headteachers. 

  • Further develop strong links to the Active Schools out-of-hours programmes, develop increased use of school and community facilities and enhance the pathways to club sport for participation and performance. This will better join up the curriculum to out-of-hours activity in communities for young people.

  • Develop area-based CPD programmes for primary classroom teachers, PE specialists and Active Schools co-ordinators.

  • Provide and further develop immersion programmes for interested primary class teachers to take on a specialism as has successfully operated under CCR arrangements.

  • Develop a secondary and primary APG team approach to physical education to make the link between primary and secondary schools to ease transition and provide a consistent curriculum pathway.