This Statement based PE assessment has the primary goal of making assessment quick, easy and clear. The template can be adapted and changed to suit any school’s curriculum, the template I have done includes fictitious names to provide you with a clear understanding of how it all works. The curriculum subjects are real, although your school may do different subjects as schools do have the freedom to choose what subjects they do as long as they fit into the curriculum guidance. The template has 6 half terms of subjects already done with the statements for a range of subjects such as dance, gymnastics, fundamental balls skills, athletics, striking and fielding and sending and receiving. For example, the statement for fundamental ball skills reads ‘can kick a ball straight’ or a statement for gymnastics might read ‘can roll forwards and backwards’. Depending on your medium and long term planning you will may need to align the assessment statements so that they fit your school’s curriculum requirements. WHY USE STATEMENT BASED ASSESSMENT FOR KS1? Using this system makes assessment quicker and easier than some other systems, it is clear for others to follow and see what your children are capable of doing and therefore track their progression. If you’re job sharing or you have outdoor providers or a TA, they can use this system and although you’re not doing the lessons you can still look at the statements and have a clear profile of what each child can do. This then makes the job of relaying this information to parents and other stakeholders much easier and can be simply translated to reports. I’ve put boys in blue and girls in red, there’s no particular gender reason for this, however by using different colours it makes it clearer to identify if there are gender trends emerging regarding mastery of skills. You could also use a colour scheme if you wanted to focus on pupil premium children or children with SEN plans to track their progress. The information for the statements can inform future planning and delivery of PE and will provide your school with a clear picture of children’s progress.

This resource has been carefully created to help Primary Schools be prepared and fit for purpose for any Ofsted inspection. I have recently ( just before lockdown) had the experience of an Ofsted ‘Deep Dive’ PE inspection. The new framework is just an important in PE as other subjects and I have created this resource partly because we did well in our inspection but also because I realised we could do better after reflecting on the inspection experience. This resource gives examples of the subjects being taught in accordance with PE curriculum guidance and crucially provides reasoning and validation as why the subject is being taught, what knowledge children gain and what Padagogy is being used. These 3 factors of ‘Why, knowledge and Padagogy’ are ( from my experience) the key focus for Ofsted. This Map also provides clarity and focus to help both medium and long term planning, there is a working example of a long term yearly PE plan. It also has in-depth explanations as to how PE supports pupil premium and vulnerable children and PSHE. The mapping shows the key progressions form each key stage and gives highlights what is being taught and how this benefits children’s physical and mental development. It can be edited to fit your school’s profile as most school’s have their own personal mission statements and values. This resource does provide links to cultural, religious and British values as an example of how PE links to these subjects. I’ve loaded it as a Power point so that it can used in staff meetings.