PE and Sport

Vision:

At Grateley Primary School, the curriculum is focused on the pursuit of ensuring progress for all children. It insists on knowledge being the key to the learning, providing differentiated inclusive learning for all children to “succeed and excel”. It is about teaching children to be physically confident, it needs to be personal, based on knowledge gathering, experiencing success and enjoyment. This helps build and develop health and fitness. The curriculum discusses a culture, a way of thinking that all children should gain and develop. It is coming up with the idea that children can own their learning; that they are allowed to own it, developing life skills that the children know and recognise that they have. It is not about competing, or particular skills, but about developing a realisation of key life skills that can develop and be used for many purposes.

In the aims, the National Curriculum is ensuring that all pupils succeed. It alludes to differentiation here strongly by using the phrase “all pupils”. The National Curriculum is looking at all pupils regardless of disability need to succeed across four key areas.

The first aim is looking at developing competence to excel in a broad range of activities. It is about age-related skills, which eventually leads to sports. It is about all children developing in relation to their age.

The second is looking at being physically active for sustained periods. We are looking at there being a set percentage of activity in each lesson being developed into children’s lives. We know that lesson times are linked to age-related timing with the best intentions, but regardless of what we are having, this should be 80% of the lesson time where every child is experiencing an increased heart rate.

The third is about global participation, that children are engaged. Children take part competitively, whether at a personal level where they challenge a previous self/time/success or against peers and that this is global across the classes so that all pupils are involved.

The fourth is more about an evolution of life, a way of changing self-perspective to lead a healthy, active life. Within a school environment, there is the ability to affect this, but to spread outside of the school; it needs to be taught as a life skill, an understanding and a knowledge that this should be a way of thinking. A culture.

PE needs to be exciting, safe for all children to take part in, and build towards an end goal that allows for progression from us into the Junior School.

All pupils:

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

Stirling University’s James MacAllister says, ‘Physically educated persons should be defined as those who have learned to arrange their lives in such a way that the physical activities they freely engage in make a distinctive contribution to their wider flourishing.’

Intent:

The P.E curriculum meets the Statutory Guidance from Year 1-6.

The P.E curriculum provides an opportunity for children to build skills through physical activity that they can develop and build for Modern day Britain.

We believe in the importance of children learning life skills for Modern Life in Britain, therefore we have built into the essential knowledge the importance of children learning about nutrition as well as moving their bodies so it is important that links are made between P.E and Design and Technology.

Grateley School believes in being part of the community so we enable children to participate in local sporting events playing against other local teams. This enables the children to learn to play in a competitive setting and build resilience and growth mind set during competitions.

The Grateley values are taught through the opportunity to learn about their health and nutrition. Through this the children learn about the values, teamwork, enthusiasm and respect.

Implementation:

Teaching focuses on children being physically active for as long as possible, for raising heart rates, for teaching and developing new skills and for ensuring engagement and enjoyment. Learners are active, involved, engaged and excited, learning new skills or building on their developed skills so they can succeed at a personal level to allow them confidence and capability.

Learning journeys build on from each other through each year group and onto the next, challenging, extending and building on key skills gained. Year groups have opportunities to celebrate and extend through cross-curricular activities and in Year Reception, Discovery Time is being developed to extend and challenge what is learnt through adult-led activities. In EYFS, Aspiration 4 focuses on the children moving with confidence and strength.

Part of planned lessons to recall and build on previous learning. Children can experience new things as well as continue to experience taught areas as they go through the school.

Based on observations of what children are achieving, how to extend and support learners and to check understanding through demonstration by either child or adults.

Impact:

At Grateley Primary School, we know that our PE curriculum is progressive and allows all children to develop their fundamental movement skills and achieve individual goals. Our pupils are physically active at Grateley Primary School and this has positive impacts on their learning in the classroom. Children at Grateley Primary School understand how to lead a healthy lifestyle and the importance of physical activity. We strive for children to have a love of sport which they can continue outside of school and in their future lives.

‘It is the essential knowledge that pupils need to be educated citizens, introducing them to the best that has been thought and said and helping to engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.’

Enrichment:

As part of Grateley's curriculum offer, we want children to experience being part of a team and compete in local competitions with other local schools.

We have the opportunity for children to join the following teams;

Cricket Team (Year 5 and 6)
Football Team (Year 3 and 4)
Athletics Team (Year 3-6)
Cross Country (Year 3-6)
Grateley Dance Crew (Year 3-6)

Swimming Lessons

At Grateley, our swimming curriculum offer is in Years 3 and 4. This ensures that the majority of children, over a two-year period, attain the government expectation for the end of KS2 swimming.

Each pupil is required to be able to do the following:

Perform safe self-rescue in different water based situations.
Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.
Use a range of strokes effectively, for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke.

Sports Coaches:

As parts of our Sports Premium Funding, we use some of the funding for our expert Sports Coaches. They teach every year group one of their P.E sessions weekly and also support building children confidence in sporting events such as sports day.