PE and Sports
At Grange Primary School, we teach PE in accordance with the National Curriculum, our objectives have been carefully mapped out to ensure progression is achieved from Reception through to Year 6. We take a holistic approach to physical education teaching ensuring our objectives focus on both the knowledge and skills to ensure pupils social, moral, spiritual, and cultural development is enhanced through Physical Education.
We have developed an exciting curriculum here at Grange engaging children in a wide variety of regular physical activity, incorporating the ‘Living, Learning, Laughing’ ethos into learning in order to build character, promote physical confidence and to encourage a healthy life style.
With our own sports coach and partnership with Elite school partnerships, we work together with the local community (Long Eaton United, Erewash gymnastics and Chilwell golf to name a few) to inspire all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other enriching activities. All members of staff engage in continued professional development ensuring they are constantly updating their knowledge of the Physical Education curriculum.
All Sports units work towards the ‘CARED model’ end of unit assessment where children demonstrate their skills during a match or, in the case of sports like dance or gymnastics, a routine. Pupils measure and track improvement in their own fitness levels across the fitness sessions and can talk confidently about what it means to have a healthy lifestyle.
Living
We believe in PE being a key driver in children acquiring and developing skills such as teamwork, sportsmanship, perseverance and commitment that they can apply to everyday life. Pupils are provided with opportunities to develop these skills by taking up roles across the school such as mini leaders, here they encourage other children to learn and develop their PE skills through leading activities as part of a school’s lunchtime or after school clubs. Pupils are encouraged to set targets for themselves and compete against others, individually and as a member of a team learning sportsmanship, dedication and perseverance. Developing role models within sport are an important part of our PE curriculum, we regularly organise visits from inspirational athletes such as Olympians to run assemblies and workshops and raise the profile of sport within school.
Learning
Through our knowledge-engaged approach, we develop children’s ability to select and apply skills, tactics and compositional skills. They are encouraged to evaluate and improve performance through accurate self, peer and group led reflection. We focus on developing children’s co-ordination, agility, knowledge, and understanding of fitness and healthy lifestyles and understand the importance of making links across all subject for key vocabulary and concepts. Our lessons are vocabulary rich and we endeavour to embed accurate and rigorous vocabulary throughout our lessons.
Laughing
PE lessons are designed to engage all abilities through fostering a love of physical activity and enjoyment by relating it to cross-curricular subjects. We encourage children to find their individual talents by offering a wide range of alterative sports such as yoga, goal ball, archery, hand ball, volleyball and tchouk ball. In partnership with Long Eaton United we have a strong focus on encouraging children to take part in sports within their local community and pupils take part in workshops with Long Eaton United on a weekly basis to develop football skills and tactics and raise confidence and role models in sports. We facilitate our own competitions between schools and are also a part of the Silver Package ran by Erewash Sports Partnership giving pupils the chance to compete and work alongside their peers
To read more detail about our PE curriculum, please see the attached policies and subject overview documents below.