Halfway Nursery Infant School

PE

Curriculum Intent

At Halfway Nursery Infant School, our vision is to ensure that all children leave our school physically literate. Children will gain the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy lifestyle, body, mind and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport. The teaching of physical education at Halfway is inclusive and enables children to learn a range of skills. 

Every child has access to two hours a week of discreet PE as well as at least 30 minutes of additional physical activity during the school day. This will be through the delivery of active lessons across the curriculum and active breaks and movement sessions, as well as outdoor provision in EYFS. These opportunities are built into the school day as and when they are needed.

We provide opportunities for the children to access sports clubs and compete in competitive sports at a range of sporting events. These opportunities along with PE lessons should build confidence, self-esteem and help to develop values such as respect, fairness and building relationships.

In our Foundation Stage, we provide high quality opportunities for children to be active on a daily basis and develop their coordination, control, and movement.

Implementation

At Halfway Nursery Infant School, PE is planned and delivered with a timetable in place, to ensure children are receiving two hours of PE each week. All programmes of study in the National Curriculum are planned for and delivered within EYFS and KS1.

The scheme of work we use for PE is Get Set 4 PE. Each lesson is taught by the class teacher. Due to the nature of the timetable, we are able to offer a session which is taught by a PE specialist who teaches dance and gymnastics. These sessions are taught alongside the class teacher to ensure that staff are supported and updated with specialist knowledge regularly. These lessons either take place in the hall or outside on the playground or field. As well as weekly PE lessons, class teachers plan active lessons across the curriculum and schedule their own active breaks and movement sessions when they feel they are necessary and best fit within their day. We also encourage active playtimes to give children opportunities to join in with team games and physical activities. These activities are modelled and are overseen by an adult to ensure they are accessed appropriately.

In our Foundation Stage, we offer opportunities for the children to develop their gross motor skills as well as their fine motor skills in order to meet the Early Learning Goal at the end of Foundation Stage 2. We have outdoor provision available in nursery and Foundation Stage 2 to support physical development.

In addition to the opportunities given throughout the school day, after school sports clubs are offered to all children. Some of these clubs build on skills taught within the PE lessons as they are run by our PE specialists. They are usually themed around the seasons of the year or special events and celebrations. Other clubs are planned in to give children new experiences, for example, glow in the dark sports.

Whole school sporting events are organised to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyles. These events occur annually and some of which include: sports day, health and wellbeing week, Skip-a-thon and National Fitness Day.

We have good links with our local family of schools where we have opportunities to visit and take part in sporting events and festivals. This also contributes towards the children’s aspirations when they are transitioning into year 3 and year 7.

We also provide physical, gross motor and fine motor interventions across school for children with additional needs.

Impact

The impact of PE at Halfway Nursery Infant School is to ensure that children have the confidence and fundamental skills to take part in, and/or succeed in a range of different sports. Children will leave our school with lifelong skills and knowledge, which they can continue to develop as they move through their education journey.

Assessment will be carried out according to the requirements of the National Curriculum. Teachers use the skills progression document from our PE scheme ‘Get Set 4 PE’ to inform assessments, as well as the end of EYFS assessment statements of attainment, which subsequently inform future planning.

PE long term plans and skills progression