Nether Green Junior School

PE Curriculum

To ensure this expectation is met, we first and foremost, aim to make our children’s PE lessons as fun as possible. We believe that if children experience a real enjoyment of learning in PE, they are more likely to achieve physical literacy and become lifelong active citizens. Through our PE delivery, we endeavour to equip our children with the skills, knowledge and aptitudes they require to lead healthy active lives and to counter the long lasting impact of the pandemic and other current lifestyle behaviours.

The importance of this cannot be underestimated, as these staggering results indicate from our school sport partner, Arches:

• 30% of schools social interaction is worse or a lot worse
• 63% of schools said resilience is worse or a lot worse
• 86% of schools said that pupils have put on excessive body weight
• 92% of schools said that fundamental movement skills of pupils were worse or a lot worse
• 92% of schools said pupil’s physical fitness is worse or a lot worse
• 57% of schools said that pupil’s general wellbeing is worse or a lot worse

At NGJS, we also value the importance of providing opportunities for our children to compete individually and as a team. We want to instil in our pupils the importance of self-improvement and the understanding that a personal best is a real achievement both in PE and in the classroom. We also aim to teach the children how to communicate with others as part of an effective team, and compete meeting the expectations of our competition charter. This was produced by the children themselves.

• To respect our fellow competitors
• To respect the officials
• To respect the teachers and other adults in the crowd
•  To play the game fairly and honestly
•  To be a team player at all times and support each other positively – No ‘I’ in team!
•  To play with a positive attitude and mindset
• To use the phrase ‘chin up’ if someone has made a mistake or found the game challenging
•  To be humble in success
• To shake hands with the opposition and officials at the end of every game

By the time our children leave NGJS, every pupil will have gained the confidence to represent the school in physical activity and know what it feels like to be part of a team.

Implementation

Our PE curriculum is mapped out from Y3 to Y6 using the GetSet4PE scheme of work. This is in line with the National Curriculum and is used to support teaching staff in their subject knowledge and planning of PE. Teachers are able to adjust and adapt lessons to the meet the needs of their classes or their own sporting specialisms, but the scheme provides clear and progressive expectations for each year group. At NGJS, each child has access to two hours of high-quality PE every week taught by their class teacher. One of these lessons takes place in our fantastic sports hall and the other occurs outside on the playground.

When we designed our PE curriculum we wanted to ensure that we achieved the following outcomes:

Every half-term, class teachers complete an assessment to track the pupils’ progression against the learning outcomes. This allows us to provide interventions for targeted pupils with the Sheffield United Community Foundation that come into NGJS to support our PE programme.

At NGJS, the children are encouraged to attend our many lunchtime and after-school clubs. Our clubs and activities run at different times throughout the year. They are run by staff free of charge or by outside providers for which there is usually a charge. An extensive tracking system is also in place to ensure all pupils have the opportunity to participate in a club by the time they leave Y6. At NGJS, we are also part of school sports partnership network, the Sheffield Federation for School Sport and have close links with the Sheffield United Community Foundation. This means we are never short of festivals and competitions to offer our pupils, including those specifically aimed at SEND pupils. This ensures that every pupil will have the opportunity to represent the school in sport during their time at NGJS. In Y6, the children also have an opportunity to become ‘Play Leaders’. They receive training from our school sports partner and are involved in delivering targeted interventions at lunchtime and supporting active play at Nether Green Infant School.