Athletes at Queen's Crescent

Being an Athlete

Lead Athletes: Mr O'Sullivan and Miss Fleming

Intent:

Physical Education is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. At Queen’s Crescent, we have a high-quality physical education curriculum which inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. We create an environment where sport and PE is fun, engaging and inclusive to allow all children to find a skill or sport that they succeed in. It provides opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. We provide opportunities to compete in sport and other activities to build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.

Aims:

The national curriculum for physical education aims to ensure that all pupils:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities;
• are physically active for sustained periods of time;
• engage in competitive sports and activities;
• lead healthy, active lives.

Sports Premium

In 2013 the government pledged millions of pounds to schools known as the Sports Premium to spend on raising the profile of PE and to continue the legacy of the 2012 London Olympic Games. Since then, Queen's Crescent has been given around £9500 each year but from September 2017 that amount was doubled resulting in around £19,000 to focus on school PE and sports.

How do we teach PE and why has this approach been chosen?

Each class has two hours of high quality PE each week. One of the sessions follows a scheme of work from Create Development called Real PE. The second session is supported by Get Set 4 PE. Both of these offer a child centred approach to PE that transforms how we teach to include challenge and support for every child.

Our main focuses are on:

• Agility
• Balance
• Coordination

What our athlete sessions look like:

Swimming

Due to the restrictions imposed by covid over the last 2 academic years, in 2021/22 we will be sending years 4 and 5 for swimming lessons at the Olympiad Leisure Centre as these are the children who have missed out. Time permitting, we plan to send Year 3 but this is very dependent on availability.

After SATs each year, we look at past swimming data and offer 'top-up' sessions for those children in Year 6 who cannot swim 25m unaided.

In the academic year 2020/21, we collaborated with parents of Year 6 children to find out what percentage of our children had met curriculum targets: 72% of the children could swim 25m confidently with 76% of them being able to use a range of strokes effectively.

PE and sporting opportunities

• The ‘School Sports Organising Committee’ are named as suggested by the School Games. They are a group of year 5 and 6 children who have accessed training through local secondary schools and have had the opportunity to plan and lead events for the school. Their main event is the School Games Day and Pickwick Academy Trust Sporting Events.
• The ‘Bike-It Crew’ are a group of KS2 children who are enthusiastic about sustainable transport, especially travelling by bike. They have the responsibility of planning and organising cycle events for Bike To School Week and the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel.
• We have year 6 Playground Buddies whose responsibility it is to support younger children with playing games at lunch times and encouraging positive and active experiences for KS1.
• All children from FS2 to year 6 will have opportunities throughout the year to attend events that are organised by the Chippenham Sports Partnership.

Support for PE

We work in partnership with Up & Under who provide staff development by working alongside them and children in their PE lessons.

Extra Curricular Activities

After school clubs are provided throughout the week for sport. These are offered by Up & Under as well as school staff and are typically:

• Football
• Netball
• Running
• Dance
• Multi-Skills

Athlete outcomes:

Our athletes are monitored by the Athlete lead throughout the year in the form of lesson observations and pupil conferencing. The awarding of the class PE medals can be visibly seen as the children walk around the school prompting positive discussions around sport and pride within the child.

Every child will have a positive experience of school activity and sport.

The lead athlete works closely with the link governor to assess the impact of athlete curriculum each year.