Physical Education
Leader: Mrs Armer (*SLE) & Miss Love
Greenfields is committed to providing outstanding PE provision, both as part of the school curriculum, and through extra-curricular opportunities. We want to promote pupil health and wellbeing, and to raise standards of attainment across the curriculum.
Curriculum
A wide range of activities are delivered in school which aim to engage and inspire all children. We aspire to provide at least 2 hours per week of high-quality planned PE. We have a PE curriculum that offers a broad range of sports; focusing on a challenge and developing skills, fitness at an individual level, raising aspirations, sportsmanship and increasing the health and life long sporting passion for all. The school’s PE provision is based on both the new National Curriculum and on the key findings of the Ofsted publication ‘Outstanding physical education for all’.
At Greenfields we offer a high-quality curriculum which is inclusive and is designed to meet the needs of all pupils. We try to cater for all our children’s needs and to ask the children which clubs they would like to see at Greenfields, this is done by Pupil Voice through the School Council. We track all our children’s participation in school clubs and sporting events in order to monitor participation and help to ensure we can provide something for all.
Over the year, each child will participate in games, athletics, dance and gymnastics lessons with swimming for KS2.
Adventurous activities are offered to children in Years 5 and 6 and include climbing, canoeing, problem solving, orienteering and archery which are delivered while they attend annual residential trips.
Events
PE and sport has a high profile in our school and permeates many aspects of school life. In the Summer term we hold our annual Sports Day in which we encourage participation of all children and organise competitive races which also include a parent’s event. We have Sports fundraising and charity events such as taking part in Sports Relief and the Cancer Run.
Clubs
We wish to complement the PE curriculum with a wide range of alternative as well as traditional sports through our extra-curricular sporting activities. We hope to capture pupils’ interest and enthusiasm and nurture a lifelong commitment to participation in sports and physical activity. We use outside coaches to enhance the variety of activities we can offer. This year we have a gymnastics coach delivering our gymnastics lessons which is also providing valuable training for our school staff. We also have Mrs Martinonge teaching our dance sessions to further upskill our teachers. Mrs Armer runs Netball, Mrs Foster delivers the Hockey club, Mr Watson and Mr Lumsdon are continuing with their Football club and Mrs Robertson and Miss Watton are running a hugely popular Skating club.
Every year children who did not achieve their 25m badge in Year 4 are given the opportunity to attend swimming booster sessions. We use some of the sport premium money in this way to offer another chance for children to reach the required standard in swimming by the time they leave our school.
Last year we were lucky enough to have a full day of coaching sessions going on in school with the Newcastle Falcons working with children from Year 1 up to Year 6.
Competition
We enter a wide range of competitions, particularly through our work towards achieving the School Games mark each year and have achieved the Gold award for the 2023/24 academic year.
Throughout the year we enter into, and practice, for a number of different competitions such as Y5/6 Hockey and Netball tournament, Athletics, and Gymnastics. We like to make sure we enter into a range of competitions that are offered to children across the school and for children of all abilities. A particular favourite is the North Tyneside Dance festival every year that takes place at the Whitley Bay Playhouse.
The children are always a credit to our school and demonstrate excellent sportsmanship, but it is also wonderful to celebrate their success.
PE and Sports Funding
The government is providing additional funding to improve the provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. This funding is ring-fenced and can therefore only be spent on the provision of PE and sport in schools.
At Greenfields we have used our PE funding in a variety of ways and split the funding into three key areas, Physical Education, Healthy Lifestyles and Competitive Sport.
The PE & Sports Funding document below gives full details about the impact of the way we spent the money last year and how we intend to spend the money this year: