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25/03/23

A fabulous day of sportshall athletics for year 3/4 children. 19 schools took part with the top 3 as follows 🥉 🥈 🥇 pic.twitter.com/YuTmpQZfcM

24/03/23

A fabulous day of sportshall athletics for year 3/4 children. 19 schools took part with the top 3 as follows 🥉 🥈 🥇 pic.twitter.com/YuTmpQZfcM

23/03/23

Our amazing allotment pic.twitter.com/vKCqPdYeXh

03/02/23

Results of todays swimming gala! 🥉Little Thurrock 🥈 🥇 well done to all 9 schools that took part today! pic.twitter.com/5TpJfKtWWh

03/02/23

Results of todays swimming gala! 🥉Little Thurrock 🥈 🥇 well done to all 9 schools that took part today! pic.twitter.com/5TpJfKtWWh

21/01/23

A fabulous year 5/6 sports hall athletics event today with 21 schools taking part!! Our top 3 schools were 🥉 🥈 🥇 well done to everyone who took part! 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🏃🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/Ei4ZPowiWB

20/01/23

A fabulous year 5/6 sports hall athletics event today with 21 schools taking part!! Our top 3 schools were 🥉 🥈 🥇 well done to everyone who took part! 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🏃🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/Ei4ZPowiWB

14/10/22

An amazing day at the Conference today and feeling very proud of our very own Mrs Webb who won the Transforming Lives as a Leader Award pic.twitter.com/tC9jLnxnEg

12/10/22

Well done to all the KS2 children that took part in this year’s cross country events - one of the toughest events of the year and you all did incredibly well! We had plenty of individual success and the Year 6 boys won their team event 👏🏻🥇🥈🏃🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/BtIFJZnwGl

12/10/22

Sporting Success: here is another one of our amazing pupils after winning gold (doubles) and silver (singles) at a recent badminton event in Colchester! Congratulations - we are so proud of you 🏸🥇🥈 pic.twitter.com/mots999thP

12/10/22

Sporting Success: here is another one of our amazing pupils after winning gold (doubles) and silver (singles) at a recent badminton event in Colchester! Congratulations - we are so proud of you 🏸🥇🥈 pic.twitter.com/mots999thP

12/10/22

Well done to all the KS2 children that took part in this year’s cross country events - one of the toughest events of the year and you all did incredibly well! We had plenty of individual success and the Year 6 boys won their team event 👏🏻🥇🥈🏃🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/BtIFJZnwGl

29/09/22

So many different varieties of tomatoes and beans are grown in our allotment. Don’t forgot to stop by on Thursday each week to buy some of the produce pic.twitter.com/ZqIgzFQ95e

29/09/22

Our garden is thriving! Our pupils are enjoying tending the garden each day and selling their produce to their parents pic.twitter.com/rij1no0d4L

23/09/22

Cleverbox film crew at Harris Primary Academy Mayflower today filming for the conference 2022… A massive thank you to all the amazing staff and students for their invaluable support and participation. pic.twitter.com/biDwm4YecM

22/09/22

Cleverbox film crew at Harris Primary Academy Mayflower today filming for the conference 2022… A massive thank you to all the amazing staff and students for their invaluable support and participation. pic.twitter.com/biDwm4YecM

21/07/22

End of term treat time! pic.twitter.com/P81yG4ma9Y

14/07/22

Vocal chords are warm, smiles are ready and our choir are all set for their Junior Music Festival rehearsals 🎶 pic.twitter.com/sgkSfUbfDf

06/07/22

A huge well done to everyone at that helped us to achieve the Gold mark! 🥇👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/gVupX4r26u

06/07/22

A huge well done to everyone at that helped us to achieve the Gold mark! 🥇👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/gVupX4r26u

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PE

PE Intent, Implementation and Impact

Our PE curriculum aims to provide children with knowledge and skills in the following areas:

  • Games
  • Dance
  • Gymnastics
  • Athletics
  • Swimming
  • Outdoor and adventurous activities

 

What is the intention of the KS1 and KS2 PE Curriculum?

A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities. It should provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect.

 

Through the teaching of PE we intend to:

  • enable pupil’s to develop and explore physical skills with increasing control and co-ordination.
  • encourage pupils to work and play with others in a range of group situations.
  • develop the way pupil perform skills and apply rules and conventions for different activities.
  • show pupil’s how to improve the quality and control of their performance.
  • teach pupil to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise.
  • develop the pupil’s enjoyment of physical activity through creativity and imagination.
  • develop an understanding in pupils of how to succeed in a range of physical activities and how to evaluate their own success.
  • assess pupil’s learning, analyse and interpret the results to inform future planning and lessons.

 

How will this be implemented?

PE develops a child’s knowledge, skill and understanding, so that they can perform with increasing competence and confidence in a range of physical activities. A varied curriculum is in place to support this, with activities including: dance, athletics, gymnastics, games, swimming and water safety and outdoor adventure activities.

 

The National Curriculum states that:

EYFS

We encourage the physical development of our pupil in the EYFS as an integral part of their work. We relate the physical development of the pupil to the objectives set out in the Early Learning Goals, which underpin the curriculum planning for pupils aged three to five years of age.

 

We encourage the pupils to develop confidence and control of the way they move, and the way they handle equipment. We give all pupils the opportunity to undertake activities that offer appropriate physical challenge, both indoors and outdoors, using a wide range of resources to support specific skills.

 

Key Stage 1

Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

 

Pupils should be taught to:

  • master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and coordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
  • participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
  • perform dances using simple movement patterns.

 

Key Stage 2

Pupils should continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other.

 

They should develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.

 

Pupils should be taught to:

  • use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
  • play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
  • develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance
  • perform dances using a range of movement patterns
  • take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
  • compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.
  • swim competitively and proficiently for at least 25m
  • use a range of strokes effectively
  • perform self-rescue in different water based situations

 

In the Harris Federation, PE is an important subject in which pupil learn the importance of an active lifestyle and have the opportunities to play in competitive sport.

 

All pupils (Year 1-6) receive  2 hours of PE teaching a week.

We use a variety of teaching and learning styles in PE lessons. Our principle aim is to develop the pupil knowledge, skills and understanding and we do this through a mixture of whole-class teaching and individual/group activities. Teachers/ Coaches model sporting skills then provide pupils with opportunities for them to practise their newly learnt skills. Teachers/ coaches draw attention to good examples of individual performance as models for the other pupils and we encourage the pupil to evaluate their own work as well the work of other pupils.

 

Additional PE Opportunities

We aim to provide a variety of sporting opportunities. These encourage pupils to further develop their skills in a range of the activity areas. The focus sport in each lesson changes each term in the school year. As well as sporting opportunities within the school community, we also enter partnership and county sporting events. The pupils have opportunities to competitively play in tennis, athletics, rugby, cricket, hockey, netball and dance. These experiences allow for pupils to apply their sporting skills, develop team skills and learn how to play competitively.

In KS2, pupils take part in a Federation wide sporting event, either as a participant or as a spectator.

How will we judge the impact of the PE Curriculum?

Pupils have a wide range of physical ability. Whilst recognising this fact, we provide suitable learning opportunities for all pupils by matching the challenge of the task to the ability of the child and in doing so raise pupil’s health (considering childhood obesity) and fitness levels, improve skills and develop pupil’s resilience, teamwork and perseverance (school values).

The use of assessment, questionnaires and surveys (pupils and staff) and by talking to pupils the quality of lessons and confidence in the teaching of PE improves and as a result the enjoyment and positive outcomes increases.

 

 

Andrew Wright and Jemma McCarthy – Joint Physical Education Leaders

 

Documents

PE Intent 02nd Feb 2023 Download
Curriculum Overview 2023 2024 20th Nov 2023 Download