The Endeavour Sport & Physical Education Vision

Personal Empowerment

At Endeavour, we design our curriculum in ways that lead to children being able to actively participate in their lives. In PE, by learning the knowledge and concepts that we have chosen to learn in detail, children engage with opportunities that they would not have at home to live a healthy lifestyle. This prepares them to be active participants in their own lives. For example, returning to movement in increasingly complex ways develops transferable critical thinking. This critical thinking prepares children to make decisions about their lives and to access learning about any area of PE with success in Secondary School. 

Furthermore, PE is a crucial component of our curriculum because it helps us to pass on the best that has been thought and known and to ensure that our children leave Primary School with an expected amount of knowledge about the world. 

Cultural Transmission

At Endeavour, we design our curriculum in a way that ensures that we pass on the best that has been thought and known. In PE, by developing fluency in the knowledge that we have identified should be developed fluently, we give our children important knowledge that empowers them to thrive. For example, we want our children to develop fluency in the knowledge that underpins the following areas:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities  
• are physically active for sustained periods of time  
• engage in competitive sports and activities  
• lead healthy, active lives 

As well as giving children empowering knowledge that allows children to participate in their own lives and to enter society with an expected amount of knowledge, PE also prepares children for citizenship.

Preparation for Citizenship

At Endeavour, we design our curriculum in a way that prepares children to make informed decisions as members of a democratic society. In PE, by developing fluent knowledge of our planned curriculum and our chosen key concepts (movement, interaction, expression, discipline, control) we prepare our children to make informed decisions and choices. For example, we know that children who are supported and encouraged to live a healthy active life will be more able to develop healthy habits that will positively support mental wellbeing into adulthood. Furthermore, we know that children who have developed fluent knowledge of the concept of ‘control’ will be better prepared to join in with the norms of a democratic society.  

In addition to empowering children to participate in their lives, giving an expected amount of knowledge and preparing children to make informed decisions, the planned curriculum prepares children to thrive in the workplace.

Preparation for Work

At Endeavour, we design our curriculum in a way that prepares children for work. In PE, by developing fluent knowledge of our planned curriculum and our chosen key concepts (movement, interaction, expression, discipline, control) we prepare our children to succeed at work. We know that PE develops transferable skills and that knowledge of our key concepts prepares children with mental models that can be applied to any industry. For example, developing knowledge of discipline prepares children to thrive in the world of work and, indeed, to succeed in jobs that do not yet exist.

When designing our curriculum, we ensure that we select knowledge and structure its implementation in ways that lead to personal empowerment, cultural transmission, preparation for citizenship and preparation for work. However, we also acknowledge that there exists the injustice of disadvantage and so we shape our curriculum around the core aim of tackling disadvantage.