Intent

Hillstone Primary School hopes to encourage all children to develop positive attitudes towards PE and sport, improve health and well-being, cater for all abilities, allow every child to fulfil their potential, encourage lifelong participation, and provide competitive activities. We aim:

• To engage all pupils in regular physical activity in line with the recommendations from Youth Sport Trust and government guidelines, striving for our children to be active for 30 minutes a day in addition to their two timetabled PE lessons
• To increase participation in competitive sport
• To provide opportunities for children to participate in a broad range of physical activities, providing variety and an introduction to as many sports and activities as possible
• To develop the children’s fundamental movement skills, enabling lifelong participation in physical activity
• To develop multi-ability skills through PE, enabling the children to use and develop cognitive, personal, social, creative and physical skills through physical activity.
• To encourage all children to achieve their personal best.

Implementation

• Curriculum: From EYFS, we use the PE Hub scheme of work to help with the teaching and delivery of PE. This focuses on the importance of developing sound fundamental movement skills alongside multi-ability skills such as personal and social skills enabling children to apply these skills to any game or activities. These scheme ensures fundamental movement skills are developed progressively and uses clear steps of progression at every level.
• Hillstone follows a curriculum map which sets out when PE Hub units are covered and which sports are introduced. Sports are taught during their season so that they can directly link to clubs and competitive opportunities.
• Organisation: PE is taught through two weekly lessons, one lesson with the class teachers and one sports specific lesson with a specialist coach.
• School Sports Premium: The School sports premium is used to improve the provision of PE, allowing us to provide a broad range of activities while offering additional support to lessons, run practices and prepare for events, along with running lunchtime clubs and afterschool clubs, providing residential experiences for Year 2 to Year 6, to highlight the importance of Outdoor Adventurous Activities whilst also upskilling ‘CPD’ for our staff.
• Extra-curricular: Hillstone provides a wide range of after-school clubs and early morning sports activities. They are open to all children and clubs are often oversubscribed. These provide opportunities for the children to participate in a range of activities and develop their skills further. We target our least active and Pupil Premium children as a priority to access one club without any cost implications.
• Competition: All children have the opportunity to take part in competitive sport through our competition schedule. We run inter-house competitions during PE lessons.
• As a school, we are part of the Archbishop Ilsley School Games Partnership, Birmingham School Sports Association and Saltley Schools Football which provides many additional opportunities for our children; we partake in numerous competitions, leagues and festivals against other schools via these providers (known as level 2 competitions).
• Pupil Voice: The school Sports Ambassadors assists in shaping PE and has helped plan inter house competitions such as Sports Day, dodgeball and events to help cater for what our pupils want at school when it comes to PE and Sport.
• Assessment AFL: Teachers and coaching staff use their professional judgement to observe children over the period of a term. They use assessment sheets and Milestones strands, which include demonstrating fundamental movements in isolation and also applying to sports and physical activities, to make a judgement based within age-related expectations, above or below at the end of each half-term.

PE Kit

Please ensure that all clothing is clearly marked with your child’s name, so that it can be returned to you in the event that it is misplaced.

All children require the following items for all PE lessons:

• White t-shirt 
• Hillstone navy blue tracksuit. Alternatively, plain navy tracksuit bottoms, shorts or a hoodie can be worn.  
• Black Slip on pumps or trainers
• Swimming kit and towel for swimming lessons