Purpose

What were your reasons for doing this development work?

Our school wanted to:-

• Improve fitness levels of pupils
• Support pupils to increase their motivation towards fitness
• Promote physical wellbeing
• Ensure effective use of our PE Premium funding by upskilling staff members to deliver high quality PE
• Develop teacher subject knowledge with particular focus on dance and gymnastics
• Ensure consistent progression in PE for each year group through the use of curriculum maps
• Reduce behaviour incidents at breaktimes
• Work towards all PE lesson being outstanding PE lessons

Who were the identified target learners?

• All pupils in our school

What were your success criteria?

• More pupils being physically active
• More outstanding PE lessons
• Increased participation and enjoyment in PE lessons and extra curricular clubs
• Improved behaviour at break times

What did you do? (What success criteria did you use?)

• Elms Sport (external coaches) taught Year 1 and Year 6 for ½ term alongside class teachers for gymnastics. Class teachers fed back on their learning and skill progression to the rest of the class teachers
• Main aim was to develop subject knowledge and confidence and ensure skill progression of pupils
• Progression maps were made available to all class teachers including athletics, games, dance and gymnastics
• Ensured that the Medium Term plan for PE was written in the same format and had equal priority as other curriculum subjects
• As part of PE Subject Lead’s Professional Development, Camden PE consultant undertook teacher observation of PE lead and knowledge was disseminated throughout the school
• Implemented 5-a-day physical activity programme which is used in transition between lessons
• Involved in Race to Health to increase amount of physical activity of pupils (a Camden Health Improvement Initiative)
• Pupils participate in “Wake up Shake Up” physical activity initiative when they line up from morning, lunch and afternoon break times.
• Linked with the YMCA to offer an off-site extra-curricular sports club with a variety of sports on offer for groups of children. Fifteen pupils are accompanied to the club by teaching assistants
• Playground was zoned and school now have a teacher trained in positive playgrounds
• Two playground buddies per class were identified to make sure pupils feel happy and safe and equipment is being used correctly

What specific teaching resources did you use?

• Val Sabin Gymnastics and Dance Resource to improve the quality of dance and gymnastics in both key stages
• New equipment bought to support physical development in EYFS and for use at break times

Outcomes and Impact

What has been the impact on pupil learning and teaching?

• Improved teacher subject knowledge in Dance and Gymnastics
• PE planning now shows a clear progression of skills across the year groups in gymnastics and dance and teachers feel more confident

• Improved attitudes towards sport for pupils attending YMCA club as evidenced by attendance figures and positive feedback from parents and pupils
• Pupils are more active at lunchtimes and there has been reduction in the number of accidents and behaviour incidents at playtimes as evidenced by log book
• Increased physical activity, motivation and enjoyment of pupils through the purchasing of new equipment. This has also led to improved teaching as teachers are not limited by resources
• Early indicators show that new sports/activity equipment is supporting the fine and gross motor skills of Nursery and Reception children. The children are also benefitting from the lunchtime zoned activities
• Improved behaviour in playground as evidenced by log books

Evidence of impact on pupil learning and teaching/leadership

• Skills audit of teachers
• Feedback from teachers and pupils
• More lessons assessed as Outstanding

• Fitness testing results of pupils
• Monitoring of pupil participation in extra-curricular sports clubs
• Feedback from pupils, parents and teachers