Grendon Underwood Combined School

PE

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PE develops pupils` physical competence and confidence, and their ability to use these in a range of activities. It promotes physical skilfulness, physical development and a knowledge of the body in action. PE provides opportunities for pupils to become creative, competitive and to face up to different challenges as individuals and in groups and teams. It promotes positive attitudes towards active and healthy lifestyles.

At Grendon Underwood School we recognise that children have a natural enthusiasm for physical activity. We aim to offer opportunities for the children to:

• Become skilful and intelligent performers;
   

• Acquire and develop skills, self confidence, control, co-ordination and mobility in a range of physical activities and contexts;
   

• Learn how to select and apply skills, tactics and compositional ideas to suit activities that need different approaches and ways of thinking;
   

• Develop their ideas in a creative way;
   

• Set targets for themselves and compete against others, individually and as team members;
   

• Understand what it takes to persevere, succeed and acknowledge others’ success;

• Respond to a variety of challenges in a range of physical contexts and environments;
   

• Take the initiative, lead activity and focus on improving aspects of their own performance;
   

• Discover their own aptitudes and preferences for different activities;
   

• Make informed decisions about the importance of exercise in their lives;
   

• Develop positive attitudes to participation in physical activity

The government aspiration is that schools should provide 2 hours of physical activity per week. (Including N.C. and extra curricular activity.) The current provision at Grendon School is as follows: each class has the use of the hall for 1 hour per week. During fine weather teachers often choose to work on the field rather than inside. The school runs a number of extra-curricular clubs as outlined later. The reception class has 2 sessions per week to enable children who attend school for just the morning or just the afternoon to participate in P.E. activities.

During the school year KS1 pupils will have the opportunity to develop skills in the 3 statutory areas of P.E. - dance, gymnastics and games. KS2 pupils will develop 5 out of the 6 areas of P.E. as defined by the N.C. document. At Grendon these will be dance, gym, games, swimming and athletics. Pupils from years 4,5 and 6 will have one swimming session per week for one term in addition to their time tabled hall time. Elements of the final area ‘outdoor & adventurous activities’ will also be taught during KS2 residential trips although this is not statutory.

The structure of most lessons should include:

• A clear objective, made available to the pupils

• A warm up

• A main teaching focus

• A cool down/closing activity

The class should work quietly - noise is potentially dangerous. Stop the children if they become noisy. The use of a whistle is only appropriate outside; inside you should control the pupils with your voice.

Content:

Dance:

• Warm-up

• Exploration

• Dance framework:

  • creating

  • performing

• Closing activity

Gymnastics:

• Warm-up

• Floor-work - relating to a theme

• Apparatus - transference of floor-work

• Closing activity

  • calming

  • review

Games:

• Warm-up

• Modified game

• Skill practice

• Modified game

• Calming down activity

Athletics:

• Warm-up

• Running

• Warm-up throwing/jumping

• Throwing/jumping

• Closing activity

Swimming:

• Warm-up

• Exploration

• Specific skills guidance

• Opportunity to watch, copy and describe

• Closing activity

Activities related to the PE curriculum out of usual classroom time currently include:

• Girls’ football

• Boys’ football

• Hockey

• Netball

• Cross-country

These activities are seasonal and depend upon voluntary organisation by members of teaching staff. These activities are mainly available to pupils in years 4, 5 and 6.

Trips relating to ‘outdoor and adventurous activities’ are:

• Y4 - Woodrow: Walking, map-reading, orienteering.

• Y5 or Y6 - Lakeside: Canoeing, abseiling, climbing, walking, orienteering, problem-solving, teamwork, personal challenges.

• Y6 or Y5 - Isle of Wight or Barton Hall: Walking, orienteering, map-reading, problem-solving, teamwork, personal challenges including climbing and abseiling, as well as relating elements of this to ICT.

Grendon Underwood School is involved with the following inter-school activities:

• Annual Cross-Country meet

• Annual Athletics meet

• Annual Swimming gala

• Girls’ Football matches, tournaments and league

• Boys’ football matches, tournaments and league

• Netball matches arranged at the discretion of the coach

Within the school sports day is organised by the two individual key stages.

Key Stage 1 are involved in team activities based on KS1 games skills, followed by a friendly year group race (boys race and girls race).

Key Stage 2 are involved in a carousel of activities within a team based on games skills. In addition to this some children are involved, following a selection process, in competitive athletics involving throwing, running and jumping.

This is statutory. The school will refer to non-statutory guidance to create opportunities for ICT in PE; this could include the use of a video camera to record movements and the use of a concept keyboard.

This should be an on-going task based upon the ‘expectations’ section of the relevant QC unit of work. Children’s achievements are to be assessed against the ‘expectations’ at the end of each unit, and related to the N.C. Attainment targets for PE at the end of a year. There is no statutory N.C. assessment at the end of the K.E. for PE Assessment will be used to set targets for individual children, to help the teacher to plan appropriate work, to report to parents both verbally and in written reports.

Teachers will develop cross-curricular links where appropriate; opportunities for this are identified in the non-statutory guidance of N.C. (e.g. music, geography). Further opportunities are identified in the QCA units. A specific area to be aware of is PSHE and citizenship.

At Grendon Underwood Combined School we seek to provide positive images of all groups in society. This can be done through using stimuli for work from a broad range of cultures, enriching the pupils’ learning.

In line with the school SEN policy the class teacher, with the support of the SENCO and the PE manager, is responsible for engaging an involving all children so that they learn and make progress regardless of ability and physical limitations. Refer to the table below for a range of ways of including young people.

Where necessary the child will be provided with adult support.

After one year of the new Scheme of Work based on the QCA document the staff will have an opportunity to feed back to the PE manager about its success. Monitoring will be done by the PE manager through sampling of planning, and lesson observations.

• Children should respond immediately to the command ‘stop’, come down from the apparatus and sit in silence on the floor, indoors or outdoors.
   

• A child, two as appropriate according to age should be sent to find a member of welfare staff, Headteacher or secretary immediately.
   

• While the accident is being dealt with the remaining children must be silent.
   

• It is essential that the Accident Report book is completed, this is to be found on the Medical Room’s desk. If appropriate the Headteacher is to be informed and any necessary forms completed.

Dress Indoors:

• T-shirt and normal shorts, no Bermudas

Dress Outdoors:

• T shirt, shorts with jumper, sweatshirt, or
   

• Track suit

Should there be a problem on cultural grounds, parents should send a letter to the school, in this instance leotards and footless tights would be advised according to County policy.

• Footwear:

  • Indoors - barefoot except on medical grounds and then gym shoes should be worn.

  • Outdoors - gym shoes or trainers
     

• Hair: Long hair should be tied back
   

• Watches and Jewellery: All jewellery must be removed.
   

• Behaviour: Children should be encouraged to walk in the hall at all times unless otherwise instructed.

  • Noise should be kept to a minimum to enable the teacher to be easily heard.
     

• Exclusion: Children should only be excluded on receipt of a letter from a parent.

If a child has to be excluded he/she should be in the hall to observe comment and partake verbally.

Since staff should be setting an example, consideration should be given to the following:

• Dress and footwear: clothing should allow quick and easy movement. Trainers or gym shoes should be worn.
   

• Hair: For safety reasons, long hair should be tied back during the lesson.
   

• Watches and Jewellery: For safety of themselves and the children watches and jewellery should be removed, special attention should be paid to rings.
   

• Participation: Children respond to teacher participation but it must always be remembered that the children must be seen at all times should intervention be necessary.
   

• Control: The best position for the teacher in the hall is at one of the corners. Whistles should not be used in the hall, the children must be encouraged to listen for the teacher’s voice.
   

• Catching and supporting: Whilst other children are working it is inadvisable to catch or support a child learning an individual skill whether it be floor or apparatus work.

Each of QCA units represents 8 - 12 hours of work to be developed into a Scheme of Work. The units are progressive and develop from what has preceded them.

PE Shed includes:

• Hockey sticks

• Unihoc sticks

• Variety of Short Tennis rackets

• Cones and markers

• Hoops

• Variety of Balls - all sizes/shapes

• Tops Play bag and balls for KS1

• Quoits

• Tops sportbag - to be rotated with other schools.

• Be careful to keep complete.

• Beanbags

• Variety of wooden bats

• Cricket equipment

• Rounders equipment

• Coloured bands

• Rake

• Poles, flags, etc

• Skipping ropes

Hall:

• Short Tennis rackets

• Table tennis bats and nets

• Badminton Rackets, shuttlecocks and nets

• Hoops

• Beanbags

• Quoits

• Soft Balls

If special resources are required for children with physical disabilities, please consult PE Manager and SENCO.

Books/Texts:

• Tops play cards

• Gym 4 - 7

• Primary PE - Alan Asquith

Please ensure that you heck that the PE equipment is returned tidily to the shed or hall. If children assist you it is your responsibility to ensure that they have put it away properly.

The velcro on the gym apparatus must be wrapped around itself with the soft face outward, otherwise it collects dust. The teacher should also check this at the end.