PE and School Sport at Scholes
Our Intent
Being active is a very important way of life at Scholes. We aim to have a physically and mentally active community within our school. We feel that this is reached by our children being happy and being involved with as much sport and movement as possible. PE is delivered through weekly sessions in Nursery and Reception. From Year 1 onwards, all pupils receive a minimum of two hours of curriculum PE each week, alongside a range of additional sporting opportunities provided through after-school clubs.
We pride ourselves on working with professional coaches to develop our staff and children as well as participating in competitive games wherever possible. Sports week is an important week in our school calendar. This is when participation is celebrated and competition is embraced.
As well as the curriculum we provide many physical after school clubs which reach a wide range of children’s interests as well as participating in festivals within the wider community.
Competition Intent
We work to take part in and provide competition both in an inter and intra school environment. We attempt to provide many opportunities that are fun and engaging as well as competitive. We will always adapt the environment where necessary as well as the format to increase motivation or the scoring method.
We will measure our success through interviewing and questioning our children.
Implementation
With our committed staff and specialist teachers, the children will receive high quality PE lessons which are mapped out in broad and balanced blocks. All areas of the national curriculum are covered in all year groups (except swimming which happens in year 5.
The physical education curriculum is supported using the Getset4PE scheme of work which provides high quality ideas, lesson plans and guidance on supporting and developing ALL children.
Curriculum Map
EXTRA CURRICULAR CLUBS
A broad range of after-school clubs is available to enhance children's physical activity levels. Sessions are delivered by specialist coaches, providing pupils with access to high-quality teaching and opportunities to develop their skills and confidence in sport and physical activity.
Autumn 1:
Monday: Upper Key Stage 2 - Netball
Wednesday: Key Stage 1 - Multi skills
Thursday: Lower Key Stage 2 - Dodgeball
Autumn 2:
Monday: Upper key stage 2 - Archery
Wednesday: Key stage 1 - Funkifit
Thursday: Lower key stage 2 - Funkifit
Events
Cross Country
Our children are invited to take part in the cross country festival @ Spen Valley High School. Children across both lower and upper key stage 2 will have the opportunity to represent the school, 5 boys and 5 girls in each class will have the chance to compete. They will compete both individually and as part of a team with chances to progress to the West Yorkshire finals.
Year 6 Football
Both the boys and girls in Year 6 are being represented this year. The boys play in the Magna beds league, with the top two teams progressing to the round of 16. The girls are part of the Tivoli travel league which runs a similar format.
Swimming
Swimming is taught in year 5 through which we aim to ensure that all children can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25m, use a range of strokes effectively and perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.
Sports Day
Sports day is always a favourite day amongst our children. They compete within their allocated colour teams across a range of activities that test the children's throwing, jumping and running skills. Points are combined from children across all Key stages to find an eventual winning colour team. Last years winning team was the Red team!
Get Set For PE
Rationale for Get Set for PE
Since Covid staff feel less confident in planning and teaching P.E. Particularly as CPD had dried up and staff were out of practice. For a few years we used Sports coaches to help guide staff and increase their knowledge. However, we felt this was not quite enriching staff in the way we wanted as the coaches were mainly in control.
We therefore felt it would be beneficial to have a central hub of resources and a scheme that matches the National Curriculum skills and standards.
After asking for advice and recommendation from other schools we chose Get Set for P.E.
This scheme provides teachers with detailed lesson plans. There is also resources, video clips, an introduction to each unit, key skills the children are developing, learning objectives linked to the National Curriculum, links to other subjects, assessment criteria as well as a tool to record and collect assessment data.
There is clear progression through the lessons and a development of areas such as yoga for example that our teachers would not attempt without the support of Get Set for P.E.