Woodlands Primary School Sports Premium Statement

P.E. & Sports premium

Overview

Sports and PE are an essential part of life at Woodlands Primary School, our PE subject leader leads across the school and works closely with the staff to ensure there is consistency and progression built into lessons and that these are purposeful and have our ‘Key Drivers’ at the heart of them. We deliver the ‘Get set 4 PE scheme’ and understand the importance of building on the fundamental skills that the children learn in EYFS.

 All children are encouraged to have a healthy lifestyle and take part in school competitions and events.

What is sports premium?

The government provide funding directly to primary schools to spend on improving the quality of sport and P.E. for all the children.

How will we be spending the money and who will benefit?

• The P.E. and sports premium funding will benefit all children at Woodlands regardless of their sporting ability.
• The children at Woodlands will be given opportunities to compete in local and regional tournaments.
• All staff will have access to high-quality resources to aid them in teaching the full P.E. curriculum
• All staff will have access to training opportunities, plus continued professional development to improve the quality of teaching and learning in physical education.
• We invest in quality training for the P.E. subject leader to ensure that they have a school-wide overview of the curriculum and ensure that there is a good quality of education for all pupils at Woodlands.
• We explore ways to ensure that swimming is developed so that children are water safe as a minimum standard. 

PE AT WOODLANDS

Sports and PE are an essential part of life at Woodlands Primary School. We have a PE subject leader, who works closely with other staff members and subject leaders to ensure they are supported in delivering Good to Outstanding PE lessons to all of our children.

 The PE lead also works closely with the inclusion team (including the learning mentors) to ensure that PE is fully inclusive and it supports the ‘Motional’ programme that is run to support the children with their mental health and well being.

PE is reflected in Woodland’s key drivers – these underpin all decisions that are made within the school and can be seen in all elements of the curriculum. There are: To have real world experiences; to have high aspirations for themselves and others; to be responsible global citizens and to ensure their mental and physical well being is a key priority.

Pupils at Woodlands are encouraged to have an active lifestyle and our PE curriculum provides children the opportunity to learn core physical and emotional skills that promote this lifestyle.  Woodlands uses the Get Set 4 PE scheme that promotes these skills as well as team building and problem solving which they can then use when learning to play a sport. Learning transferable skills is vital to build the foundations to be able to play a variety of sports.

In early years children take part in active play where they develop fundamental motor skills through their own exploration and curiosity. The Outdoor areas in Reception provide an excellent space for children to explore skills used in Games and Athletics which are developed when the children progress into year 1. 

In years 1 through to year 6 the children take part in 2 hours of PE per week. Our curriculum, Get Set 4 PE, is available to teachers to provide structured and progressive lessons in various games/sports, gymnastics, athletics and dance- they also practice yoga in some years whilst others concentrate on fitness. Teaching staff use a cross curricular approach when teaching and link PE with their topic work and other subjects where appropriate.

PE is an inclusive subject and all pupils, regardless of their need, will take part. Teachers use the ‘STEP’ (space, task, equipment people) approach to support the children.

All children are given the opportunity to compete in an annual sports day held at the school in the summer term which is part of a wider sports week, the theme of this week changes each year depending on what other subjects it is linked with or if there are major sporting competitions at the time.  There are also other opportunities to take part in competitions throughout the year – this may be against other classes, year groups or whole school.

There are a range of sports clubs that are run by staff at the school and other external providers that the children can attend throughout the year, examples of these are- football club and bike/scoot club – please see our ‘clubs’ page for more information.

Having active break and lunch times is also really important at Woodlands- there are ‘activity areas’ that the children can play and climb on in both the KS1 & KS2 playgrounds as well as having a range of sports/activities for the children to take part in e.g. cricket, 4 square, skipping/ table tennis and football. We also have equipment out for the children to play with more creatively where they can use their imagination and problem solve e.g. tyres and small logs.

 There is also an opportunity for the children to become play leaders – where they work with the staff and lead various activities/games on the playground at lunchtime. This is role that children need to apply for and successful candidates are trained throughout the year to fulfill this role.

 ‘PE ambassadors’ are a group of children who will be the voice of the pupils throughout the year, they will meet regularly with the PE lead and feedback what is going well and what can be improved.  They also support at break times to ensure there are games that the children can play.

The PE lead works with our travel plan ambassador to promote active travel throughout the year – various competition are held and the travel tracker is used daily in all classes across the school.

The leadership of PE is an essential component of our middle leadership team. Subject leaders gets bespoke leadership training throughout the year and also attend REP (Redbridge Educational Partnership) networks, where they meet like minded professionals; share good practice and discuss all things PE. The PE lead will also monitor PE throughout the year with a link member of SLT so that they are aware of the quality of education in PE across the school. This monitoring is used to celebrate out excellent curriculum offer and also to put in support if and where needed.

For more information about PE at Woodlands, please see our ‘PE’ page – where you can find curriculum documents and action plans.

For more information about the Sports Premium grant and how this was spent – please see the report below.