At Ewyas Harold Primary School we are very proud to have been awarded the Bronze School Games Mark for our commitment and engagement towards the School Games of 2023/24. We are now working towards achieving our silver.
Aims:
To promote positive attitudes towards physical activity
To develop fair play through cooperation, collaboration and competition and manage to varying levels of success in competitive and co-operative situations and retain a proper sense of perspective in competition.
To have age appropriate activities.
To show an awareness, knowledge and understanding of safety when participating in physical activity.
To promote physical activity, physical skills development and a healthy lifestyle
To inspire all pupils through engaging learning experiences
Instil children with the values, knowledge and skills to enable them to achieve beyond expectations and experience success
Provide a progressive curriculum where skills and knowledge are developed through quality ongoing assessment.
To provide equal opportunities for all children regardless of their race, gender, background or ability, thus providing a programme of study that is inclusive.
To provide equal opportunities for all children to reach their full potential, through curricular and extra-curricular sessions.
Intent
Our Curriculum offers a coherently planned sequence of lessons to help teachers ensure they have progressively covered the requirements of the PE National Curriculum. Our scheme of work ensures that children have a varied and well mapped out PE curriculum. It provides the opportunity for progression across the full breadth of the PE National Curriculum for KS1 and KS2 for both indoor and outdoor PE. This progression is clearly identified on progression maps and each lesson has been carefully planned to match these. In KS1, the focus of the PE curriculum is on the development of the fundamental skills that will be built upon in KS2 when they are applied in specific sports. It is our intention to develop a lifelong love of physical activity, sport and PE in all young people. We aim to help ensure a positive and healthy physical and mental outlook in the future and help young people to develop essential skills like leadership and teamwork. PE at Ewyas Harold promotes qualities such as enjoyment, commitment, creativity, fairness, enthusiasm and concern for quality as well as success. We nurture a sense of love for PE and celebrate successes. All lessons are differentiated which helps to ensure that learning is as tailored and inclusive as possible. Each unit of work will have an overarching question which children will explore attached to it as a focus for the children to build towards being able to answer.
At the end of a year pupils should be secure in nearly all units.
Implementation
We use ‘The PE Hub’ to provide us with a well sequenced and progressive curriculum. This curriculum ensures that all teachers are equipped with the secure subject knowledge required to deliver modern, high-quality teaching and learning opportunities for all areas of the PE National Curriculum. Class teachers are fully involved in the planning process which ensures class teachers are actively involved in delivering the agreed sports activities. The various different sports are used as a way of teaching children in the fundamentals of movement, balance and co-ordination in both a fun and engaging way.
Our overarching aim is for teachers to have the knowledge and skills they need to feel confident in teaching all areas of PE, regardless of their main areas of expertise. Interwoven into the teaching sequence are key assessment questions. These allow teachers to assess the different levels of understanding at various points in the lesson and also allow time to recap concepts where necessary, helping to embed learning. Formative assessments are supported through the inclusion of assessment grids. IPads are used to capture photographic and video evidence. In addition to PE lessons, children are encouraged to be active for at least 60 minutes per day. This is done through active lunch and play times, guided activities at lunch times and also a range of Extra-Curricular clubs. Teachers use questioning to gauge pupil responses and inform assessment. Input for lesson and the structure of lessons is disseminated in a structures and progressive way from the warm up, skill builder and activity for assessment.
Where pupils are struggling with skills or PE concepts. Lessons are differentiated to ensure maximum progress is made.
Gross motor interventions happen across the school based on SEND and PE assessment data.
Impact
Each unit is mapped against the progression documents to ensure that learners develop detailed knowledge and skills across the full breadth of the PE curriculum through engaging and age-appropriate curriculum content. After each unit of work, pupils will be assessed by class teachers using the end of Key Stage expectations set out in the 2014 National Curriculum. The high quality, progressive and consistent approach to PE will provide pupils with the best possible platform to achieve at a high standard. It is our aim that children recognise their full potential and we encourage and enthuse them to aim high in all areas of their learning.
- The engagement of all pupils in physical activity
- The increased profile of PE within the school
- Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of school personnel
- Offer a broad range of sports
- Increased participation in competitive sports.