At Early Years, the key knowledge progression document takes reference from the following documentation: Early Years Framework, Development Matters and Birth to 5 Matters.

At key stage 1, the key knowledge progression document takes full account of the national curriculum’s requirements and groups these into the following strands:

• Basic Movements

• Team Games

• Dance

These strands have been selected to reflect the key knowledge and skills in the national curriculum subject content.

As an additional strand we have included Gymnastic Movements (taken from the Basic Movements strand) as a vehicle for children to develop their balance, agility and coordination as precursors to access the Gymnastics learning in KS2.

At key stage 2, the key knowledge progression document takes full account of the national curriculum’s requirements and groups these into the following strands:

• Athletics

• Gymnastics

• Competitive Games

• Outdoor Adventure

• Dance

• Swimming

• Evaluating

These strands have been selected to reflect the key knowledge and skills in the national curriculum subject content.

As an additional strand we have included an Understanding section to complement our pupils learning particularly around the importance and benefits of staying active.

At key stage 3, the knowledge progression document takes full account of the curriculum’s strands used in Key Stage 2 and the journey this takes them on once they arrive in secondary school.

Skills are dependent on specific knowledge. A skill is the capacity to perform and in order to perform a deep body of knowledge needs to be acquired and retained. There are relatively few assessment statements as these knowledge statements should be what pupils retain for ever. In other words, this knowledge is within their long-term memory and will be retained.

When considering pupils’ improvement in subject specific vocabulary, provide pupils with a vocabulary mat which contains the relevant words used for PE for their age group.