PE Overview

At Greasbrough Primary School we aim to equip all pupils with the skills and confidence to participate in lifelong physical activity to ensure a healthy lifestyle.

We provide high-quality PE provision to all our children from FS1 to Y6. We also offer breakfast clubs, after school clubs and competitive sport opportunities for our children. 

The aims of the PE national curriculum are to ensure all children:

• 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

PE Planning

Get Set 4 PE is used as a scheme to support with lesson planning. Planning is based on assessment criteria for each year group to ensure a progression of skills in each area of the curriculum. Lessons are carefully planned to ensure the content is beneficial to the needs of our children at each age group. This is done to ensure a steady progression of skills to allow our children to become competent in a broad range of physical activities.

Structure

We structure our lessons by starting with an opportunity for our children to do warm up with dynamic & static stretches. We then focus on the learning of new skills and a chance for children to practise and progress these skills. The latter part of our lessons focus on game play and a chance for children to apply these new skills in a game situation to embed new learning. This can often be done through modified games. At the end of our lessons we do a plenary to give our children a chance to reflect on their learning and evaluate performance as well as cool down their bodies.

We strive to deliver outstanding provision for our children by ensuring that our lessons cover the four key strands of the PE national curriculum:

• Acquiring and developing skills
• Selecting and apply skills
• Evaluating and improving performance
• Knowledge and understanding of health and fitness

Questioning

Within our PE lessons, we aim to use effective questioning to consolidate and promote learning. We focus on asking open ended questions which give our children a chance to explain their answers in depth to support learning. Our staff aid this approach by using language structures to carefully phrase questions for children. We aim to use sentence starters and phrase questions carefully such as:

Can you describe what you did… Can you convince me that’s the right way… Explain how to perform this skill…

I know this because… Talk to me about this a bit more…

Assessment in PE

We assess our children every half term on the sport they have been learning. Each sport has five statements in which a child can achieve throughout the unit of work. Each child will be given a level in accordance with how many statements they achieve.

• 1 statement- Entering
• 2-3 statements- Developing
• 4 statements- Secure
• 5 statements- GD

Alongside the level of achievement, each child will also receive an effort grade between 1 and 5 with 5 being excellent.

Assessment Data

We will continue to pursue a high level of teaching and learning in PE to ensure the best outcomes for our children in PE.

School sport and activity action plan (2019)

The Department for Education (DfE) have released an action plan to ensure that sport and physical activity become an integral part school day and after-school activities. Research has been conducted which reveals worrying statistics in relation to sedentary behaviour and childhood obesity. The DfE are intent on ensuring that all children have the opportunity to engage at least 60 minutes of sport and physical activity every day to combat these important issues. In addition, the DfE have launched a ‘healthy schools’ rating scheme. Schools can engage in a voluntary self-assessment exercise and receive a rating based on questions on time spent on PE in school, food education, compliance with the mandatory school food standards, and the promotion of active travel for children’s journeys to and from school. To achieve a gold or silver certificate, schools will have to provide at least 2 hours of PE time to all year groups each week, as well as meeting important nutrition and activity requirements.

The government has three overarching ambitions to tackle these issues:

1. All children and young people take part in at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day.

1. Children and young people have the opportunity to realise developmental, character-building experiences through sport, competition and active pursuits.

1. All sport and physical activity provision for children and young people is designed around the principles of physical literacy, focuses on fun and enjoyment and aims to reach the least active.

At Greasrough, we are committed to supporting this action plan for the lifelong benefits to our children and families.

Competitive sport

At Greasbrough, we offer our children the chance to engage in a wide range of competitive sports. As part of our close working relationship with our Willow Tree Academy schools, our children have the opportunity to attend competitions in a broad range of sports. We take our children to compete against other schools within our cluster. Furthermore, the winners of these events have the chance to progress to the Rotherham Schools Finals.

Over the course of the academic year, our children participate in basketball, netball, tag rugby, cricket and rounders fixtures. Here is another way that we ‘Engage children in competitive sport and activities’ as outlined in the aims of the PE national curriculum.

Inclusion and SEND

We have a commitment to ensuring all our children have access to high-quality PE provision. All children have the right to enjoy and succeed in a range of physical activities. Therefore, we ensure that we offer a range of approaches to our PE lessons to make sure every child has full participation.