It is our intention that Physical Education (PE) at EHPS is aspirational, enabling and inclusive.  We intend for our curriculum to:

• Be ambitious for all our pupils.
• Inspire all pupils to enjoy, succeed and take part in a range of Physical Activities including gymnastics, dance, games, competitive and non-competitive sports which can benefit to developing competence in the Gross Motor skills and Fundamental Movement Skills.

• Provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way, which supports their health and fitness.
• Provide our children with ambitious opportunities to compete in sport and other activities to build character and help to embed core values such as fairness, sporting behaviour and respect.

• Teach our children a range of sports and allow opportunities for children to continually develop an understanding of these, whilst applying and using a range of rules, strategies and tactics.

• Teach our children how to live a healthy and active lifestyle and understand the importance of health living and healthy participation

• Develop an understanding of the benefits sport can have on their physical and mental health as well as raise their self-esteem.

• Teach our children about the world of sport including athletes and significant competitions e.g. the Olympics and World Cup etc.

• Be taught by highly-skilled practitioners.

Every child at East Hunsbury Primary school receives at least 2 hours of PE a week. The children are also given opportunities at break times and lunchtimes, through specialist coaches, to take part in physical activities and develop and foster a love for PE/sport.

At East Hunsbury, we use Real PE as our whole school PE approach. We chose this curriculum because it is inclusive of the SU and EYFS and marries with our schools sporting and physical education philosophy.

In Real PE, the pupils are taught about developing a whole range of skills via the ‘learning cogs’. These cogs each have a specific focus which will be developed throughout the time the pupil is at East Hunsbury Primary School.

Each of these cogs are taught via a range of activities and games-based scenarios. Throughout a session, each learning cog skill will also be aligned with a fundamental movement skill, which will be focussed on within the session.

Due to our drive for ambition, we currently engage Specialist Sports Coaches to deliver our PE curriculum who are overseen by the PE lead.

All children, by the time they leave KS2 will have been given the opportunity to attend swimming lessons and swim 25m. We use part of our Sports Premium to fund ‘Top Up’ lessons for those that require it.

The Early Years

From the start of the Early Years, we immerse our pupils in a love for PE, fostering the fundamental movement skills alongside teamwork and co-operation. This can be seen throughout sessions of PE within East Hunsbury Primary School and it is here where our ambition for our children in sport and physical education really begins.

We made the decision to start Real PE in the Early Years as it complements their learning in: PSED, EAD and PD lessons well as the children will learn to: 

• Be confident in trying new activities with independence
• Explain the reasons for rules and follow them
• Manage their of self-care needs
• Work and play cooperatively
• Negotiate spaces and objects safely
• Demonstrate balance, strength and coordination when playing
• Move energetically such as running, jumping, skipping, climbing and dancing
• Perform rhymes, songs, poems and stories with others and try to move in time with music.

This then supports cumulative and progressive learning into, and beyond, Year 1.

Building on from the Early Years

In Key Stage 1, the children’s main focus will be to continue to develop their Real PE learning cog skills as well as the fundamental movement skills.

Throughout the time the children are in Key Stage 1, they become increasingly competent and confident in accessing a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. The children will engage in competitive, non-competitive and co-operative physical activities, in a range of challenging situations. Over the year, the children will take part in a variety of games, gymnastics and dance activities which are all aligned to the National Curriculum requirements.  These plans are tailored to each year group and have a particular focus on a specific ‘learning skills cog’ per term.

In Key Stage 2, the children will continue to develop the use of their Real PE learning cog skills as well as fundamental skills which have been taught in Key Stage 1 . Throughout the time the children are in Key Stage 2, we allow the children to apply and develop these learning cog skills through, a range of competitive games and scenarios.

Music technology is part of the music curriculum and is also integrated into our computing curriculum (e.g. Year 4 Computing unit- Creating media: Audio editing.) Pupils have opportunities to use music technology applications to record or sequence sounds and use this knowledge to create tracks / add music to film / photo sequences / visual art / poems / stories.

Our Specialist Unit also adopts REAL PE as their curriculum but often, and when appropriate, the join with our mainstream children to deliver lessons inclusively.

Children in the Specialist unit also access: yoga, horse riding, disability Sports, sensory circuits and their EHCP plans often include fine and gross motor skill development.

Throughout each year, the children have the opportunity to take part in a variety of games, gymnastics and dance.

We also engage a Specialist Dance Teacher to teach dance to mainstream pupils resulting in dance of a very high standard which we pride ourselves on when we showcase this to other schools in the Northamptonshire Partnership Academy Trust (NPAT) and participate in the Annual Derngate Arts Festival.

Children in Year 5 at East Hunsbury also have Sports leadership opportunities. The EHPS sports leaders are deployed at lunchtimes to offer a wider range of activities for every child to participate in.  We also have sport coaches supporting our lunchtime provision.

Children in Year 6 take part in bikeability.

The school holds an annual Health and Fitness Fortnight ensuring that the children learn the importance of health and exercise. This event is both competitive and non-competitive. During the fortnight the pupils are taught a range of sports and are teachers ensure they are physically active as often as possible. Pupils are reminded of healthy eating and making healthy life choices.

As part of the Northamptonshire Sport partnership (NSport) children in Key Stage 2 take part in a range of sporting competitions such as: Tag Rugby, Cross Country, Sportshall Athletics, Gymnastics, Benchball, Arrows and Archery, Inclusive Arrows and Archery, Quicksticks Hockey, Netball, Quadkids Athletics, Football and Rounders.

We offer a range of before and after extra-curricular clubs. Many of these are taught by external agencies. We believe by using external agencies it allows specialist subject knowledge to be passed onto the children to develop and foster a passion for a particular sporting area.

East Hunsbury Primary School is a member of the Northamptonshire Sports Programme (NSport) ensuring that these skills in lessons can be developed in a competitive environment competing against other schools in the local area.

Although we mostly use a non-competitive basis in school we also believe that it is important in developing healthy competition through competitive small games, as we believe this develops the whole child’s approach to Physical education in being able to take part as a team and building a strong ethos of teamwork and the correct sporting behaviour and how each child can conduct themselves in all lessons.

Our premises and grounds include an all-weather pitch (Muga), a trim trail, various courts and two halls.  The Specialist Unit use their hall spaces and bespoke playground to support their EHCP targets and sensory circuits as well as joining mainstream classes for inclusive PE lessons where ever possible. All these spaces provide opportunities for PE to be taught and enjoyed.

The impact of our PE curriculum will be assessed through a multi–faceted approach including:

• The Real PE Assessment Cog and REAL PE assessment process.

• Teacher observations and questioning.
  • children participating well in PE lessons, demonstrating the ability to work individually, work with others and cooperate and contribute to working as a team.

• Pupil voice: children enjoying and can talking positively about games, gym and dance.

• Pupil voice: children understanding the importance of a healthy lifestyle and are able to discuss this with others.

• Dance productions being of a high standard – these productions are seen by other NPAT schools in our trust as well as being viewed by parents.

• Children learning to swim 25m by the end of KS2.

• Attendance at extra-curricular clubs by pupils of all ages.