Intent
Our Curriculum is designed to:
The intent of the P.E. curriculum is to provide children with fun, enjoyable and challenging activities to enable an all-inclusive practice for them to boost their self-esteem while improving their playing and individual Physical Education skills. Risk taking will be encouraged within an environment where children feel safe to set their own targets and goals while illustrating determination and resilience to further challenge themselves and others to achieve the best that they can.
Implementation
The delivery of this curriculum will ensure:
Staff work to ensure that lessons are thoroughly planned to ensure that the necessary enjoyment and challenge is met enabling children to create a positive mind-set while boosting their self-esteem. Lesson swill be delivered effectively, creating opportunities for all children of all abilities to set and challenge their own goals, whilst learning key values within Physical Education. Children will have the opportunity to learn fundamental skills to be applied across a range of sporting activities across year groups.
Impact
By delivering the curriculum in this way:
The impact on pupils will increase through raising the profile of Physical Education encouraging more pupils to become involved in sport and competitions enabling children to become healthier and fitter. This will improve behaviour standards across the school, particularly at break and lunch times. Similarly, this will enable pupils to have more opportunities to experience a broad range of sports. Physical skills will be developed through participation in inter and intra school competitions.
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
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.
Swimming
As part of our commitment to delivering a broad and engaging PE curriculum, we are delighted to offer swimming lessons on-site during the Autumn term using a temporary, heated indoor pool. Swimming is a compulsory element of the National Curriculum for Key Stage 2, and this opportunity allows our pupils to build water confidence and develop essential swimming skills in a safe and supportive environment. Lessons are delivered in small groups by a qualified swimming instructor and lifeguard, with all necessary equipment and swimming aids provided.
We are currently able to offer swimming lessons to the following year groups: Year 2, Year 4, Year 5 and a top up in Year 6 for those children who require further support to reach the 25 metre standard.