Physical Development and Movement
Physical Education is an Area of Learning in the curriculum. It focuses on children’s physical development, health and wellbeing.
The Education Training Inspectorate (ETI) stated in our ETI Inspection Report, November 2024:
The provision for the physical education (PE) area of learning is being developed very effectively across the school by the creative use of individual staff expertise. Planning for progression is in place across all aspects of the PE curriculum and the children in Years 4 to 7 also benefit from swimming lessons. Opportunities for teachers to deliver PE lessons together has developed the capacity of all staff to deliver the full breadth of the PE curriculum, ensuring that children are developing their skills, confidence and competence and experiencing a sense of enjoyment and challenge as they progress through the school. During PE lessons children are encouraged to be creative and imaginative and their learning is linked to other curricular areas such as mathematics and numeracy and language and literacy.
At Oakwood IPS we are fortunate to have a trained sports coach who, in collaboration with our PE Learning Leader, has developed a bespoke programme of activities for all our pupils from Nursery through to P7. Our afternoon timetable, operating for ALL primary classes from 1.30pm-3pm Monday to Thursday allows for extended PE sessions, as well as a suite of other activities, including Forest School and Outdoor Learning Sessions, alongside music/drama, art and design, and S.T.E.A.M. sessions.
Our Sports Day is run in-house with all children attending both sessions to cheer each other along, as an extension of our bespoke buddy system.
Parents do not attend Sports Day but are invited to a series of Super Learning Days, throughout the year, where they learn, work and play together, alongside their child/ren, in their classrooms and outdoor, forest school areas.
Integrated Education Fund (IEF)
In 2024-2025, Oakwood successfully applied to the IEF’s ‘Integration Through Sport Programme’ and received a grant to be used to promote physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing by re-establishing both Gaelic and Rugby into our PE Curriculum, with the exception of the basic Fundamental Movement Skills in the Foundation stage of the school.
In 2023-2024, Oakwood successfully applied to the IEF’s ‘Integration Through Sport Programme’ and received funding to develop the ‘Promotion of Physical, Mental and Emotional Wellbeing through Hockey’, and to purchase school resources.