Mellor St Mary CE Primary School
Physical Education Statement
Through our Christian Faith, we acknowledge our responsibility to all, to enrich lives and show love and respect within our school family.
We believe in lifelong learning aiming to equip our children to live life today and for tomorrow rooted in Christian love.
For with God nothing shall be impossible (Luke 1:37)
Mission:
Our school is the church on the hill; the light that brings Jesus into the lives of all in our community.
Upon this rock I will build my church (Matthew 16:18)
Intent:
Our P.E. Curriculum has been designed to ensure each, and every, child makes progress from their starting point in their skills, knowledge and understanding by offering: a progressive spiral curriculum which includes challenge, breadth and balance.
It is bespoke to the needs of the pupils at Mellor St Mary, by focussing on subject specific knowledge, skills and understanding as set out in the National Curriculum, to ensure every child can succeed in physical education.
We are committed to ensuring our children will experience individual and collaborative learning experiences, a positive growth mind set, a sense of responsibility and challenges that take them beyond the classroom in-line with our whole school vision that ‘for with God nothing is impossible’.
As a small mixed-age school, we respond to the needs of our learners and their interests by ensuring we focus on children’s personal improvement and development through the acquisition of new skills and mastering new situations, learning experiences and raising awareness from the local area to national and global arenas. Thus, we will develop outward looking pupils who are able to engage in physical learning and have an understanding of its place in their own lives and the wider world.
We have worked hard to ensure that all of our children have access to a varied and exciting programme of sport and P.E., both in school lessons and via the extra-curricular programme we offer. This was recognised in 2019 when we received the 'Sainsbury's School Games Gold Award'. This award recognises the impact of our sports provision across the whole school community and again has been awarded to our school in 2020.
Our children enjoy participation and competition - they work hard and recognise that keeping fit and healthy is a life-long goal which promotes not only physical wellbeing, but good mental health as well. In addition to ensuring our P.E. curriculum is broad and balanced, we also offer a range of clubs after school which include new and different sports; we 'signpost' talented individuals to different provision; and we have children who have entered local, regional and national competitions.
As a school community, we were delighted when the Government announced that every primary school in the country would receive a substantial (and ringfenced) sum of money that must be used to raise levels of participation and enable all children to make life-long positive choices.
Ultimately our P.E. curriculum is intended to:
Implementation
Through quality teaching of physical education knowledge, skills and vocabulary within the core subject itself and its application across the curriculum, we aim to ensure we:
All children will be challenged to be determined, compassionate, courageous, trustworthy, resilient, creative and reflective learners, having opportunities to influence their own learning through all areas of physical education.
Effective learning characteristics include rich collaboration; reflective thinking on what they have done; the use of collaboration and self-motivation and creating connections between topics. These will all drive effective teaching and learning in physical education at Mellor St Mary.
EARLY YEARS
The INTENT in the Foundation Stage is to focus on developing gross and fine motor skills. To help our school achieve this we use the Lancashire Movement Skills resource to support Foundation staff in understanding skills they will teach children, along with other skill opportunities to develop.
Early Years Pupils will be taught P.E. through:
Achieved through
KEY STAGE 1:
(Year 1 Baseline) The INTENT in Year 1 is to carry out a baseline of 10 Fundamental Movement Skills as the children enter Year 1. From this baseline the teacher can design or adapt their PE curriculum and focus on the FMS the children are less proficient in.
KS1 Pupils will be taught P.E. by:
DURING KEY STAGE 1 -
The INTENT during KS1 is to continue to develop the children's FMS, especially their weaker ones, and also to teach children HOW to apply these skills in a context. The children should develop their knowledge when using simple tactics in game type activities and create sequences of movement in gymnastic and dance type activities. This is delivered through the CORE TASKS.
END OF KEY STAGE 1-
The INTENT at the end of KS1 is to test the children's 10 Fundamental Movement Skills again. This will show the impact on their performance of the FMS and which skills they have mastered. This information is then shared with the Year 3 teacher.
LOWER KEY STAGE 2-
The INTENT in Years 3 and 4 games is to develop children's attacking skills through a range of different sports and activities. However, this will be delivered through uneven sides, i.e. 3V1, 4V2. They will also develop their knowledge of simple attacking tactics, which are transferable across similar categories of games. For example, invasion games, net or wall games, target and striking and fielding.
Lower KS2 Pupils will be taught P.E. by:
UPPER KEY STAGE 2-
The INTENT at Years 5 and 6 in games is to continue to develop children's attacking skills when they are working as a team and to develop their knowledge of defending strategies. These will be delivered through modified mini-versions from uneven sides to even sides, i.e. 5V3, 3V4, 4V4, 5V5 etc.
The learning the children receive through the different categories of games leads to playing a school games Level 1 competition.
The INTENT at Years 5 and 6 in dance and gymnastics is to develop children's performance and composing longer sequences of movements with a partner and group.
Upper KS2 Pupils will be taught P.E. by:
SWIMMING -
The INTENT is for all children leaving KS2 to be able to:
To achieve this outcome, all children in KS2 swim each year. Any children in need of extra help are identified early and receive extra swimming instruction.
In addition to the above, opportunities will be given to all of our children to develop a healthy lifestyle through cross-curricular work on diet and food choices along with the impact of sport and activity in their lives.
This will be done through:
This activity levels of pupils are monitored and recorded on termly heatmaps for the school.
Implementation
Throughout their learning within physical education and sport, all children will be challenged to be inquisitive, compassionate, courageous and creative learners. They will experience opportunities to influence and refine their own learning through age appropriate and progressive skills and knowledge. Effective learning characteristics including being ambitious, reflective and imaginative will drive teaching and learning.
Impact:
As pupils progress, they will develop resilience and fluency in their physical education ensuring that they:
Our children will have a confident set of skills, knowledge, norms and Christian values which can be used to get ahead in life and education more generally. In short they will learn more, remember more, enjoy more and develop more spiritually, emotionally, socially and physically. Thus enabling them to be ready for their next stage in education. “…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…” Hebrew 12:1
We have worked hard to ensure that all our children have access to a varied and exciting programme of sport and P.E., both in school lessons and via the extra-curricular programme we offer. This was recognised in 2019 when we received the “Sainsbury’s School Games Gold Award.” This award recognises the impact of our sports provision across the school community and again has been awarded to Mellor St Mary CE Primary in 2020.
Our children enjoy participation and competition – they work hard and recognise that keeping fit and healthy is a life-long goal. Not only do we ensure our P.E. curriculum is broad and balanced, we also offer a range of clubs after school which include new and different sports, we ‘signpost’ talented individuals to different provision and we have children who have entered local, regional and national competitions.
As a school community we were delighted when the Government announced that every primary school in the country would receive a substantial (and ring-fenced) sum of money that must be used to raise levels of participation and enable all children to make life-long positive choices.
For an analysis of how we have used this money and the impact on the children and for the new action plan, then please click here.
Mellor St Mary's Developmental Approach to Physical Education
Early Years:
The INTENT in the Foundation Stage is to focus on developing gross and fine motor skills. To help our school achieve this we use the Lancashire 5 Fundamental Movement Skills resource to support Foundation teachers in understanding the 5 key skills they will teach children, along with other skill opportunities to develop.
Key Stage 1:
(Year 1 Baseline) The INTENT in Year 1 is to carry out a baseline of 10 Fundamental Movement Skills as the children enter year 1. From this baseline the teacher can design or adapt their PE curriculum and focus on the FMS the children are less proficient in.
During Key Stage 1 -
The INTENT during KS1 is to continue to develop the children's FMS, especially their weaker ones, and also to teach children HOW to apply these skills in a context. The children should develop their knowledge when using simple tactics in game type activities and creating sequences of movement in gymnastic and dance type activities. This is delivered through the CORE TASKS.
End of Key Stage 1 -
The INTENT at the end of KS1 is to test the children's 10 Fundamental Movement Skills again. this will show the impact on their performance of their FMS and which skills they have mastered. This information is then shared with the Year 3 teacher.
The KS2 teachers use the results of the 10 FMS assessment to support their planning around which skills the children need more opportunities to practise from KS1.
Lower Key Stage 2 -
The INTENT in years 3 and 4 games is to develop children's attacking skills through a range of different sports and activities. However, this will be delivered through uneven sides, i.e. 3V1, 4V2. They will also develop their knowledge of simple attacking tactics, which are transferable across similar categories of games. For example, invasion games, net or wall games, target and striking and fielding.
Upper Key Stage 2 -
The INTENT at years 5 and 6 in games is to continue to develop children's attacking skills when they are working as a team and to develop their knowledge of defending strategies. These will be delivered through modified mini-versions from uneven sides to even sides, i.e. 5V3, 5V4, 4V4, 5V5 etc.
The learning the children receive through the different categories of games leads to playing a school games Level 1 competition.
The INTENT at year 5 and 6 in dance and gymnastics is to develop children's performance and composing longer sequences of movements with a partner and group.
Swimming -
The INTENT is for all children leaving KS2 to be able to:
To achieve this outcome, all children in KS2 swim each year for one full term. Any children in need of extra help are identified early and receive extra swimming instruction.