PE
Intent, Implementation and Impact PE
This webpage is intended to highlight the what, why and how PE is taught and delivered at Orchard Fields Community School & Nursery.
Intent
- Ruscote ward in Banbury (where Orchard Fields is situated) is one of the least active areas in Oxfordshire (in the top 10). Life expectancy can be 9 years lower than the Oxfordshire average (2022, Josh Lenthall, Active Oxfordshire)
- For all children to be enjoyably active within PE lessons.
- For Year 6 pupils to have an understanding of water safety, be able to swim a minimum of 25 metres unaided, and understand safe self rescue.
- To encourage all children to be as active as possible throughout the school day.
- To signpost children to activities outside of school through the newsletter and through a targeted family approach.
- To increase fitness levels in the school community
- To help to manage and maintain mental health for all children through targeted lessons and activities.
Implementation
- New PE curriculum – GetSet4PE started Sept 2022.
- Chosen after extensive research into
- Chosen to engage teachers more
- Chosen to engage pupils more
- Chosen because of the wider variety of activities on offer
- Thus, enabling the adult to provide a wider range of different activities
- All children to have 2 hours of dedicated PE lessons per week. Children to arrive at school in PE kit to reduce wasted PE learning time (2023 start).
- NOSSP – Chris Pemble – Primary PE mentor
- NOSSP events at other locations.
- YouMove email sent to all PP families to encourage more activity away from school
- Whole school different sporting activities:
- Climbing wall
- Caving
- BMX workshop
- Scooter workshop
- Sports Day (KS2, KS1, EY)
- Youth Activators – year 6 mental wellbeing (6 week sessions, Term 6)
- Bicycle library implementation 2023 – Matthew Sleath – British Cycling
- Cycling club at lunchtimes and after school
- Top up swimming 2021-2022 and 2022-2023
- Huge purchase of balls and storage for playtime
- Playground young leaders
- Quantitative 30 minutes of activity trackers.
- Lunchtime play leader from Banbury United employed 4 x per week, all year
Impact
- Guarantee that all children receive at least 30 minutes of activity per day whilst at school
- Children active during lessons (where appropriate) and at playtimes.
- More children in Year 6 to be able to swim (37% in 2022, 25% 2023 even with top-up swimming)
- Lesson observations of PE to be of a good quality
- As many NOSSP events as possible to be attended by a wide variety of teachers. Children to be targeted.
- Rebooking of whole school events where an impact has been noted.
- Youth activator questionnaires to be circulated post activities.
- Youmove data to be accessed through Josh Lenthall at Active Oxfordshire.
- Bicycle library data to be collected ready to be explored year on year.
- Playground leader impact questionnaires – through Jo Aleksic.
