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Physical Education (PE) is taught throughout all Key Stages, from Early Years to Year 6. Children in Years 1 to 6 are provided with two sessions of PE per week through either their class teacher or Progressive Sports.Children in Early YEars ave one PE session per week with Progrssiv Sports and lots of other physical development opportunities provided through continuous provision and outdoor play. These sessions follow the overview which explores a variety of sporting disciplines, focusing on the skills needed to be successful and the application to larger, competitive games.
Children are given the opportunity to access a wealth of Physical activity, through their taught sessions, break and lunch times plus extra curricular opportunities. Extra curricular opportunities are both competitive and for enjoyment, with the aim of providing the children opportunities to explore activities they may not have previously had the chance to experience.
Junior Jam
Junior Jam teach PE once a week for all year groups. The instructors are specialists, with a passion for their sport which makes the sessions unique and exciting for the children. They cover a range of mainstream sports, from football to gymnastics.
Progressive Sports
Progressive Sports is a local company who work alongside teaching staff in school to provide the children with high quality PE lessons. The team teach approach enables staff to have access to training on a weekly basis and learn different approaches to teaching mainstream sport from a qualified instructor.
PE Curriculum
PE Curriculum
Over the course of the Summer term the children have focused on Athletics with both Progressive Sports and Junior Jam. They have thoroughly enjoyed this topic and were sad not to be able to show off their skills at the Witton Park event, which was called off due to poor weather! The children have also worked with Progressive Sports on their teamwork skills in Orienteering, by completing team challenges each week.
Reception have been getting ready for Year 1 by visiting some of the fundamental skills taught across the year, such as throwing, catching and jumping.
Year 1 have enjoyed their sessions and work extremely well as a team!
Year 2 have enjoyed having their first sessions with Progressive Sports, as well as continuing with Mrs Heald too!
Year 3 have worked as a team to battle against each other to collect items for points- they needed to think tactically as well as quick!
Year 4 have continued their swimming lessons and ended up a super surprise of Mrs Burges and Miss Meagher joining them in the pool!
Year 5 have enjoyed working together as a team to compete against each other in relay races.
Year 6 have enjoyed their sessions with Progressive Sports, demonstrating excellent communication and teamwork.
We were very lucky to have a Zumba instructor come to school for the day. Each class had their own Zumba session and enjoyed both the dance moves and the music!
This year we continued to raise money for Sports for Champions who fundraise to help upcoming athletes. We held a day for Matha Harris, a footballer from Birmingham City FC. She joined us for an assembly where she held a training race between staff and children!
Martha then spent the day working with the children in a fitness class which she uses as part of her training. Everyone had a great time- Martha even managed to play a game of football at break time with years 5 and 6!
We raised over £900 for Sports for Champions, leaving school with nearly £300 to spend. We are looking forward to setting up a sporty activity in the Autumn term!
Pre School
The children have been busy developing their core strength, balancing and listening skills in P.E with Tom. The children have been balancing bean bags on their heads and playing bumper cars with the hoops. In sessions we have been developing our fine motor skills with dough disco skills, squashing dough, rolling into a ball and making pizzas.
Reception
Reception have been working on their body awareness in PE - climbing, balancing and crawling. We have been learning how to safely move around the hall and how to find a space.
The children have also been practising their ball skills; throwing, bouncing and kicking.
Year 1
This half term Year 1 have been learning about balance and movement. They have learned how to balance on different parts of their body, travel in different ways and travel along a bench. The photos show Year 1 playing place the object on the tree and sitting, standing and walking around without dropping the cone that was on their head!
Year 2
In Year 2 we have been developing our skills in gymnastics. We have been travelling in different ways, balancing, rolling and jumping. We have put together simple sequences in a group and transferred our skills onto the large gymnastic equipment.
Year 3
In P.E this half term, Year 3 have been looking at a range of shapes and movements. To add to this they then added different types of balances to their sequence. To further develop their skills, the children then worked in pairs to create a sequence of shapes, movements and balances.
Year 4
Year 5
Year 5 have been looking at gymnastics this half term. They have been looking at a range of movements to develop into a sequence.They included stationary poses, jumps, travelling and balancing.
Year 6
2's Room
In the Two’s room, we have been working hard using all of our muscles. We have been practising throwing the bean bags and the balls. We have been developing our turn taking skills and using this during our PE sessions and continuous provision.
Pre School
In Pre school the children have been developing their turn taking skills, passing the bean bag and throwing skills. The children have developed their core strength through different exercises.
Reception
Reception has been working on developing crossing the midline this half term. We have done this through lots of different activities and dances.
Year 1
This half term, Year 1 have completed a Dance unit. They have devised movements to reflect two dances, Bonfire Night and Christmas. Once the movements were practised, we set the dances to music.
Year 2
This term in Year 2 we have been developing our throwing and catching skills while learning basic netball skills. We have been looking at working as a team and developing our spatial awareness.
Year 3
This term Year 3 have been completing a dance routine to a Cardi B song. The children have thoroughly enjoyed each lesson! Each lesson adds a different piece to the dance and the children have amazed themselves just how good they all are! Well done Year 3!
Year 4
Year 5
Year 5 has been learning a Roman dance in our PE lessons. With gladiators and soldiers. We danced to some up beat music and learnt a routine with the soldiers and gladiators learning how they move.
Year 6
Year 6 has been learning a Thriller dance in our PE lessons. learning how they move.
They started on the floor in a twisted position, as if they were not alive, then dramatically got up off the floor learned zombie like steps and movements with their head and performed in sync.
Two's Room
We have been busy developing our physical development. We have been playing in our physical development room, climbing on top and crawling underneath the soft play. We have been building with the bricks, creating big towers. We have had lots of messy play using our fingers to make marks in the flour. We have been practising throwing the bean bags into the baskets and also rolling the balls. We had lots of fun in the outdoor area, running, jumping, climbing and exploring.
Pre School
Pre school have loved their P.E sessions, moving their body to go under and over equipment. Learning to use the different size balls to pass, throw and roll to each other. The children have built on their core strength to develop good muscle strength to support them in their P.E sessions.
Reception
Reception has had a fantastic half term in PE, completing a dance topic with Miss Estelle. They have been creating movements like a lion to a piece of music.
In their second PE session, the children have been developing their gross motor skills through lots of large movements, such as running, crawling, jumping and climbing.
Year 1
Year 1 have been learning skills that will prepare them to play tennis. We have focussed on moving from side to side and forwards and backwards. We have also been developing our racket and ball control, by balancing a ball on a racket. In these photos, Year 1 are practising their throwing and catching skills using different sizes of balls.
Year 2
Year 2 have been learning dance skills with Estelle, Their dance theme was pirates and movingand dancing like pirates.
Year 3
In Year 3 the children have been practising skills in order to play a game of tennis. The children had the opportunity to use different sized rackets. The children have shown great progress.
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Two’s Room
In PE, we have been learning how to balance using our bodies. We have had lots of outdoor play which we used our balancing skills to balance on the blocks.
Pre School
In P.E the children have been learning to balance and how many balance points they have. We have so far got up to 9 balancing points with the different moves we can make. The children had to first learn how to balance by themselves and we are now moving on to pair work.
Reception
he children in Reception have been developing their strength and coordination by learning to balance initially on their own and then with a partner. They have been encouraged to use their imagination and demonstrate different ways of balancing on three body parts for example. They enjoyed working with a partner as well,practising and improving their balance techniques.
Year 1
Year 1 have been learning about games activities. The photographs show the children developing tennis skills by practising to control the ball on their racket.
Year 2
Year 2 have been developing their striking and fielding skills in PE this half term. They have been learning how to score and following the rules in a simple game.
Year 3
In Year 3 the children have been practising throwing and catching with a variety of different sized balls. Each week improving their skills. In one lesson the children had to stand quite a way from one another to throw a ball to their partner. This was to improve their hand to eye coordination. They were quite nervous at first but by the end of the lesson had made fantastic progress. All this led to a game of rounders. The first lesson was quite difficult with all of the rules but in the next lesson, the children remembered what they had to do and thoroughly enjoyed the game.
Year 4
We have another good and final term at Swimming with many, many children ditching the arm bands, and all children reducing the amount of buoyancy aids needed. It has been an honour and privilege to see the children’s confidence improve in the water and hope that they continue to practise their live saving skills for fun and enjoyment now our PE Swimming comes to a close to allow Y3 to resume. Well done to all! In our other PE lessons Y4 have enjoyed cricket with our resident PE coach.
Year 5
Year 5 have been learning the skill for cricket in our Pe lesson and the skills of rounders both sports we have learn underarm and eye con
We have been learning how to play rounders. We have practised throwing and catching the ball and how to use a rounders bat.
Year 6
Year 6 have enjoyed learning cricket skills with Ollie this term. We began our lessons in the hall with bat and ball control, and then moved outside to the playground to put our new skills into practice!
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