Physical Education
Knowledge has driven the philosophy in developing our Physical Education curriculum. The knowledge essentials specify what children should know in as much detail as possible and content has been sequenced so that there is a coherent flow. This ensures ideas build on secure foundations, staged towards challenging goals. Careful sequencing ensures that elements are regularly returned to, supporting pupils to accumulate knowledge over time, feeding previous topics into current topics supported by Practice and Retrieval strategies. In designing the curriculum, we have considered a broad range of knowledge forms with a focus on being able to articulate substantive and disciplinary knowledge.
Substantive knowledge is the content that teachers teach as established fact. It’s basically the specific, factual content for the subjects, which must be connected into a careful sequence. Disciplinary knowledge is best described as the action taken within a particular subject to gain knowledge. It is also
about what pupils learn about how that knowledge was established, its degree of certainty and how it continues to be revised.