Derby County Community Trust (DCCT) delivers Physical Education across twenty-five partner schools in Derby, with a team of thirteen coaches. We wanted a consistent, high quality and holistic model to utilise across our partner schools. Complete PE’s resource focuses on developing the whole child through physical, cognitive and knowledge-based lesson objectives.

We also, work with a wider school’s network of sixty-five primary schools, whom we support with curriculum design. We have used Complete PE as a tool to support PE leaders with curriculum creation. Lots of these schools have then gone on to use the resource themselves. We like the ethos behind Complete PE and the fact that they are all about supporting schools instead of just selling a product. They support with our network meetings and conferences to help up-skill teachers whether they use the resource or not.

When comparing Complete PE to other schemes of work, DCCT chose Complete PE due to the holistic nature of the resource. Alongside this, the curriculum leaders’ tools such as the curriculum mapping builder, assessment tools and progression ladders are really useful to support schools to map out and implement a high-quality Physical Education curriculum.

Complete PE has enabled our team to deliver a consistent approach alongside the teachers in school may also be using Complete PE. It also means that coaches across our team save time when planning, reducing their stress and workload. This therefore allowing them to focus on delivery.

Complete PE have delivered CPD at our Network meeting as well as at our Schools conference. The training has included a “What is High Quality PE?” workshop which was popular and well received by our schools.

Our delivery staff have also received support with how to use the resource and regarding delivery of lessons to ensure holistic learning process.

Since using Complete PE, we have seen the impact of the resources spill out into our partner schools. As part of our Premier League Primary Staff Programme, our qualified PE delivery staff are expected to support primary school teachers with delivering PE to help up-skill them and increase their confidences.

We have been able to use the learning card resources to help with lesson planning which has further supported our teachers understanding of what they are looking to achieve in their outcomes for their pupils in Physical Education lessons.

Complete PE provides high quality, teacher informed resources, training and tools to support PE subject leaders and generalists alike in driving vision, purpose and practice in PE from a physical literacy, holistic perspective.

This vital work aligns with our vision- to ensure the subject’s full worth is understood, and as a result the subject is embedded and valued across schools and their communities, ensuring all young people develop physically and personally, helping them to be healthier, happier, more resilient young people prepared for life in the 21st century.

It equips educators with the knowledge, understanding and skills to plan and deliver a PE curriculum that meets the needs of all learners. Complete PE meets teachers where they are in their relationship with PE, building confidence and competence at their pace and supporting their development as teachers and leaders of PE.

With YST’s TOP PE and My PB teaching and learning materials embedded within the sequences of learning, Complete PE makes explicit the links between the physical, social, emotional and cognitive domains of learning, supporting teachers to develop the whole child.

Primary schools have seen 10 years of investment into PESSPA through the PE and school sport premium, with the key focus being on sustainable legacy.

Complete PE allows schools to pay a one off payment that provides access to planning, resources and online CPD that will continue to benefit teachers at the school now and into the future.

The curriculum mapping, learner journeys and knowledge builders support subject leaders to be clear on the purpose and progression of their curriculum, so would be a great starting point for any school on trial.

The sequences of learning provide high quality examples of PE planning, accompanied with videos to show what success looks like, to help all teachers build their confidence to plan, teach and assess PE.

It allows for the bringing together of national expertise and perspective politically and educationally, alongside on the ground realities from teachers to provide informative and thought leading strategic and delivery insight.

Complete PE is what it says on the tin, we wanted a curriculum that was easily accessible and reduced workload for staff. PE is a subject that always brings added pressure for staff as it relates to subject knowledge and teacher confidence.

We had a plan previously, but it had become outdated and cumbersome for staff, moving to Complete PE took away the shackles. I knew it would be an easy transition as I had used it previously, the planning is user friendly and easily digestible.

Our main key indicator was to ensure that teachers felt confident in delivering the PE curriculum and that meant resourcing knowing how to progress etc and Complete PE allows for that. Although we still have some teachers who are apprehensive about it, their confidence in delivering PE has significantly improved in the last six months. Teachers do feel more confident, and there is 100% improvement in the attitude to teaching PE within the staff at school.

Pupils always love PE, some are more confident than others, but everyone takes part and gets involved. What I really like about Complete PE is that video exemplars which teachers regularly show their pupils so that they can see successful models and takes the pressure away from the teachers to always model if they lack the confidence or the ability to do it themselves.

We decided to move straight to Complete PE in September 2023, so in the summer the staff were given access to the platform and we mapped out their curriculum. This allowed any concerns to be addressed early and get the ball rolling for the new academic year.

The provision has increased massively, we can see staff confidence at a higher level than before. It has helped teachers top up their knowledge and has also enhance their ability to teach higher quality PE lessons.

Since we have been using Complete PE, we can see that the children are enjoying the lessons more as they are much more succinct and practical. One of the instant impacts we have seen at school is the enthusiasm of the teachers. The planning and the resources has enabled them to teach something they are less confident in doing.

Pupils really enjoy the activities and the lessons as there are lots of practical and theory to support their learning the detailed planning helps, Teachers can pick and choose how to deliver the lesson, but all of the outcomes are the same.

As a school we can already see the physical literacy and the involvement of the children in activities is increasing.

Over the last two years, Mansfield Town Community Trust (MTCT) expanded their physical education support. Historically, the trust would only deliver football activities and very rarely, invasion games.

As an organisation we were looking to expand our PE and school sports offer to our local primary schools. We decided to partner with Complete PE based upon some of our employees’ previous experiences using their [Complete PE] resources, along with positive feedback from training courses that staff had attended.

During our expansion into wider curriculum delivery, we also expanded our delivery team. Some of these members had experience of using Complete PE in previous roles and spoke about the detail of the resources and the support it gave them when planning their lessons.

For our current staff with little experience outside of football delivery, the resources were pivotal in providing an insight into how PE lessons across different topics looked and how they are structured.

Upskilling a group of 12 delivery staff is never simple, especially when they are so used to delivering just one topic and area for a long period of time. For some, the transition was seamless, with the platform giving our staff a range of tools and delivery information to go out and deliver high quality PE. For other members of staff that couldn’t adapt straight away, they were given time to familiarise themselves and understand how they could implement this into the delivery.

Following a survey completed in February 2024, we asked staff how confident they felt planning a PE lesson prior to Complete PE recourses and a year after they were implemented. Only 3 out of 12 said they felt confident enough to plan and deliver PE outside of football. 18 months later, 10 out of 12 staff said they felt confident to plan and deliver across the PE curriculum, showing the impact resources had on our staff.

Following a survey completed in February 2024, we asked staff how confident they felt planning a PE lesson prior to Complete PE recourses and a year after they were implemented. Only 3 out of 12 said they felt confident enough to plan and deliver PE outside of football. 18 months later, 10 out of 12 staff said they felt confident to plan and deliver across the PE curriculum, showing the impact resources had on our staff.

MTCT have had two internal CPD days with Complete PE, with one focusing on PE delivery across all primary school year groups and another on Dance specific delivery. The benefit of the training days allowed our staff to link their prior knowledge into areas of the curriculum they haven’t delivered before. For many it was understanding how a PE lesson looked away from invasion games and delivering appropriate activities to various age groups.

We asked all staff members following the training days if they found them beneficial to their development of their primary PE knowledge with everyone saying it was either slightly beneficial or highly beneficial.

We asked all staff members following the training days if they found them beneficial to their development of their primary PE knowledge with everyone saying it was either slightly beneficial or high beneficial.

Since using Complete PE, we’ve seen the impact of the resources spill out into our partner schools. As part of our Premier League Primary Staff Programme, our qualified PE delivery staff are expected to support primary school teachers with delivering PE to help upskill them and increase their confidence.

We’ve been able to use the activity cards resources to help with lesson planning which has further supported our teachers understanding of what they are looking to achieve in their outcomes for their pupils in PE lessons.

We had originally written our own scheme of work that linked to Fundamental Movement Skills. However, we decided to implement Complete PE as we felt it would give our school a clearly defined progression of learning.

As PE Subject Leader, making sure that every teacher completed PE assessments has always been a challenge. Complete PE offered a simple and manageable approach to this for teachers.

We also really wanted teachers to feel confident in teaching PE rather than buying in an expert teacher or company. It’s important to us that children have their class teacher teaching them PE as they do in their other subjects. The videos helped with CPD and to develop their confidence. The plans are easy to follow.

Before implementing Complete PE, we delivered an inset for staff. This ensured that they understood how to use the new scheme. Staff are really pleased that they can print off and annotate the plans, allowing them to make the learning bespoke to their class.

We have purchased new equipment too, so that the whole scheme could be implemented effectively.

What impact has Complete PE had/is having in your school?

Since we have implemented Complete PE, we have had positive pupil and parent feedback. One thing that stood out from our recent pupil voice questionnaire, was that more pupils now enjoy their PE lessons.

Parents and pupils now understand why we predominantly focus on Fundamental Movement Skills and not a sport specific curriculum.

Pupils understand the term ‘physical literacy’ and what that looks like.

Staff are gaining more confidence teaching the whole PE curriculum and not just dance.

We can afford the sustainable membership each year and hope that this will continue after the PE and School Sport Premium too!

We first heard about Complete PE on a ‘My Personal Best’ training course delivered by the Youth Sport Trust. The scheme our school was using at the time was outdated and teachers were no longer using it properly.

We trialled Complete PE and really liked that the lessons were progressive and challenged learning, and that the ‘My Personal Best’ resources were embedded into the success criteria. The feedback from staff at the end of the trial was extremely positive, so we made the decision to go ahead and implement Complete PE.

We have been using Complete PE since 2019 and as the Subject Leader I can see a distinct improvement in the children’s abilities, their understanding of terminology and their love of PE and being physically active.

We’re using the ‘Curriculum Mapping Tool’ to plan our PE for the year, so all staff know what they are teaching and when. This tool is really helpfully as the Curriculum Map for the whole year appears on the home screen when teacher’s log in. When a teacher logs into Complete PE, they can just click on the unit they are teaching in the Curriculum Map and it takes them straight to the plan. This is a great feature that saves them valuable time!

We love the Assessment Tool. It’s such an easy tool to use to monitor and track pupil’s progress in PE. Again, it’s another feature that saves teachers valuable time. Assessing a pupil is done in the click of a button and it’s great that a summative statement appears that summarises the learning for that particular unit too.

Teachers display the ‘Knowledge Organisers’ for the unit that is being taught in their class. Children say that this really helps them to understand what they are doing and why.

All staff are fully engaged in using Complete PE and comment on the high quality of the resource and how easy it is to use.

We have really seen the benefits that Complete PE has had since it was implemented in 2019.

We have more confident staff who enjoy teaching all areas of the PE curriculum, where as previously, they may have been reluctant to do so. During observations, it is evident that the children remain engaged in their PE lessons for a lot longer and are also physically active for sustained periods too. Teachers say that the abilities of all pupils have improved significantly since the implementation of Complete PE. Teachers say that the learning cards are a great resource which helps them to differentiate learning in PE.

Twynham wanted to use a high quality PE resource to help up-skill our teachers and to help improve the overall quality of PE across the school.

Having explored other resources, we believed that that Complete PE contained the resources and support that would help us achieved our aims.

We have been using Complete PE since 2020 and all staff are confident in using the resource. The team at Complete PE have provided us with support whenever we have needed it.

Complete PE has helped me immensely in my role as PE Leader. I have used the resource to create our whole school PE curriculum and have been able to share this with staff. Staff can click on a unit of work on the Curriculum Map and this takes them straight to the lesson they are teaching, saving them valuable time.

The units of work are easy to follow and are progressive. Staff tell me that they now feel more confident teaching PE.

Complete PE is having a positive impact on PE at Twynham. Staff regularly tell me that they now feel more confident teaching PE and it is no longer a subject that they avoid teaching.

Children are also showing good progress in PE teachers see improvements in their physical abilities. The resource has been implemented across all Key Stages this means that all children now have structured and progressive PE lessons.

The general feedback from children has been positive too. Children enjoy their PE lessons and look forward to them each week.

Without doubt it’s probably the best investment we’ve made using our PE and School Sport Premium!

Complete PE is high quality and the resource continues to grow.

In 2018, we were invited to attend the education show at the NEC. Up until that point, PE had always been led by outside coaches and moving forward, my vision was that I wanted class teachers to lead PE.

Although that was my aim, I wasn’t yet sure how it was going to be achieved. That was until I got talking to some representatives of Complete PE. From the outset, I totally bought into their vision and values. Their ethos was one that aligned with mine, wanting to ‘equip every teacher with the knowledge and tools to confidently enjoy teaching high quality PE’.

On returning from the conference, I carried out a baseline survey with all staff, gaining a better understanding on how they felt towards teaching PE. The data was as I had thought- and I knew that Complete PE could support us as teachers, leaders, and whole school.

We rolled out Complete PE at the beginning of the 2019 academic year. The initial staff meeting was incredible positive, and staff were enthusiastic. We decided that we would review termly. Alongside this, a survey would be sent out to staff at the end of the year to gain further feedback and enable me to review results compared to our baseline survey.

Using the curriculum mapping builder, I was able to ensure that our provision covered every context of learning of the Primary Physical Education National Curriculum from Foundation to Year 6. Our curriculum is now clear, progressive, and exciting for both teachers to teach and pupils to engage with.

As a subject leader, I couldn’t be prouder of our PE journey at Greenmount Primary.

In our recent survey, 100% of staff said that they now feel confident in teaching physical education using Complete PE. The units of work provide so much support from interactive videos, questioning, how to support, explanations and diagrams. Teachers feel up-skilled, empowered, confident and enjoy teaching PE.

A concept introduced to us by Complete PE (development of the whole child) has had a huge positive impact on our pupils. We have introduced bibs for each lesson that encompass the 4 values that support the whole child: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional. This has been embedded across all classrooms and underpins our PE School vision.

As well as pupils becoming more skilled, physically fitter and having a better understanding of the elements of PE, they can recognise that PE isn’t just all about the ‘physical’. Our school moto is CLIMB: Confidence, leadership, independence, motivation and belief and Complete PE encompasses our school vision and more.

Complete PE is here to stay at Greenmount. With a one-off investment and small membership fee Complete PE will be able to support our school well into the future.

Our previous PE schemes of work were outdated and very difficult to follow. We had a different scheme for each area of PE, with lesson plans and activities stored on CD and in textbooks. The resources were under utilised, leading to an inconsistent approach to the design and delivery of PE lessons.

I had previously used a different online scheme which I liked because it was user friendly, however it was far too expensive for our small school to purchase. The previous PE lead had been sent an email about Complete PE so we decided to take a look.

The lesson plans were comprehensive and easy to follow, especially for those less confident at teaching PE lessons. We wanted to have a streamlined PE scheme that was all in one place and easy to follow.

Complete PE has been a huge success, based on feedback from staff and students alike. Lessons are progressive and fun; and the children really enjoy the different aspects of outdoor learning such as orienteering in KS2.

Complete PE has given staff the confidence to tailor lessons according to the needs of their students, and we have seen some of the principles of high quality PE, embedded in other areas of the curriculum. Since using Complete PE, we have seen a renewed passion for PE, leading to higher participation in lessons and extra-curricular physical activities.

Honestly we just went for it! We just felt our old scheme needed to go, so we just completely committed to Complete PE.

Complete PE does what the name says, it gives everything that is needed for staff, whether they are confident in teaching PE or not. Staff are completely engaged with Complete PE and tell me how great they think the scheme is and thank me for getting the necessary resources to deliver enjoyable PE lessons.

Complete PE has helped staff to refine and differentiate PE lessons and has helped to embed meaningful assessment for learning.

PE is now delivered regularly and is no longer overlooked by staff. I feel really happy with how our school has adapted to the resource, which just shows how much it was needed. Staff are now more confident and don’t see PE lessons as a burden anymore.

Pupils say they now enjoy PE lessons and the activities involved. Pupils are more confident to participate in lessons as the lessons help to develop the whole child.

Absolutely, one of the main draws to this scheme of work was the initial payment and low membership fee, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to invest in it.

So much money is required now for the implementation of the new Welsh curriculum, so Complete PE had to be effective and affordable and it is 100%.