PE
At Haughmond Schools, we give pupils a broad and balanced curriculum of physical activities including gymnastics, dance, athletics, games and swimming. We aim to make sport enjoyable and accessible to all children regardless of ability and gender. Whatever the pursuit, sport supports essential team building skills and helps to maintain fitness and vigour, self-esteem and confidence. We aim to provide two hours of curriculum PE a week and are fortunate in having a large games field and hall furnished with wall bars, gymnastics apparatus and mats.
Children in Year 6 can attend an annual residential visit to Robinwood Activity Centre, where they take part in outdoor and adventurous activities, which are organised and supervised by qualified members of site staff. We also provide a variety of opportunities to attend sporting afterschool clubs throughout the academic year such as football, athletics, netball and cricket.
Curriculum
Our PE Co-ordinator and Sports Coach work closely together to provide schemes and plans to support the PE curriculum. Where possible, we make cultural and cross-curricular links. For our PE lessons we enable our teaching staff to continuously develop their subject knowledge by assigning the Sports Coach as the lead teacher for one of these lessons per week. These lessons not only target our children’s physical development but also promote our school values, and support health and well being of all children. Teaching staff feel well supported in this subject with such effective modelling in these lessons.
At the end of the term, each teacher and the Sports Coach liaise together to make assessments on the children’s progress so they can build on this in the new term.
Daily Mile
KS1 and KS2 children participate in the Daily Mile each day. We are committed to this intervention because it is a social physical activity, with children running, jogging, or wheeling– at their own pace – in the fresh air with friends. Children can occasionally walk to catch their breath, if necessary, but should aim to run, jog or wheel for the full 15 minutes. Haughmond Schools running track was completed during 2019. The track is 451m long and is the largest track in the programme (built by Shropshire Council).
All classes use the track each day to complete their Daily Mile activity sessions, enabling each child in school to have the opportunity to improve their physical, social and emotional well-being.
School Games Award
We are Platinum winners since 2018!
The School Games Mark is a government-led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. Participating in this process allows schools to evaluate their PE provision and assists them in developing an action plan for future progress.
We are proud to say we have been in receipt of this award since 2018 and we were graded as reaching Platinum standard for our provision. The ‘School Games Mark Scheme’ has been hugely beneficial to our school community and has enabled us to display our passion for Physical Education, as well as analysing current PE provision and developing action plans for future progress.
We continue to use our Sport coaches to ensure that our children are exposed to the highest of standards of teaching. This allows our children to develop key skills and motivation to equip them to lead a healthy, active lifestyle and a lifelong desire to participate in physical activities. Our lessons are carefully planned so skills are developed in a variety of sports and games. The impact of this is we have resilient, confident and skilled children who are ready to take on any physical or sporting challenge.
Get up and Go!
All children at Haughmond Federation complete 15 minutes of get up and go everyday.
Harlescott Junior School running track was completed during 2019. The track is 451m long and is the largest track in the programme (built by Shropshire Council).
A photo taken of the HJS field prior to the building of the Get up and Go! Track
A photo taken after the completion of the Get up and Go! Track