Rise Park Primary School PE Vision

The PE Curriculum at Rise Park Primary School Aims to Inspire and engage our Rise Parkers to love physical activity and sport. Through our vision of “Steps to Success” we aim for individuals at our school to show Respect, develop Resilience, be aware and manage Emotions, as well as have the ability to Collaborate effectively.

Rise Park aim to develop the Whole Child and prepare children to leave Year 6 Physically Literate, this in turn will prepare pupils to be ready for the next level of learning.

Physical Literacy is the fundamental ability to competently move with confidence in a variety of physical activities and sports. Being physically literate help benefit the healthy development of a whole child who enjoys physical activity and sport for the long term and not the short term. Through our assessment process using a Head, Heart and Hands model, we hope to make pupils & parents more aware of the physical, cognitive and emotional learning that takes place to support developing the whole child and ensure they have the support to become healthy, active people for the future!

PE, School Sport and Physical Activity at Rise Park Primary School

What do we offer at Rise Park in our Physical Activity, Curriculum and Sports offer…

Rise Park offers a wide range of sports which are led by Mr Fisher & Mr Gray, our Sports Specialists. Classes from year 1-6 have their weekly PE lessons taught by both Mr Fisher & Mr Gray. This high-quality hour of Teaching/coaching is the main timeslot where the children learn the importance of the four PE key drivers and Head, Heart and Hands Assessment process.

  • Respect for the rules and others– whatever the task is, it is crucial that the instructions have been listened to and the rules of the activity are being upheld. This keeps the conditions fair for all that are in the session.
  • Resilience– all of our children are at different levels of ability and naturally find that all tasks vary in challenge. The Rise Park ethos promotes resilience, a want to keep trying until something becomes learned rather than a high success rate straight away. Do you give up easily?
  • Collaborating with others –one should never outweigh the many, so learning to work as part of a team can transfer into numerous life situations to come. Being a contributing part of a team is a valuable lesson inside and outside the classroom.
  • Emotional awareness – this, when relating to sport, is linked to compassion and empathy, during sport can you show empathy for others and pick up on their emotions and change your behaviour accordingly to get the most out of that individual. Really touching upon teamwork and leadership, if this is you already then you would make a fantastic Sports Ambassador.

Through our broad range of Physical Activity initiatives, PE Curriculum Offer and Sports Programme we hope our pupils will develop the following skills….

Foundation

Pupils will develop basic Fundamental Movement Skills based on Agility, Balance and Coordination skills throughout the year. Pupils will be given lots of opportunities to build upon these skills. Pupils will start to learn the importance of why we do exercise on a regular basis. Pupils will understand the importance of respect for others and be able to collaborate effectively. Pupils will also develop and enhance their social skills.

Key Stage 1 – Year 1&2

Pupils will develop further their Fundamental Movement skills again based on Agility, Balance and Coordination. Pupils will be confident in the basic movements such as running, jumping, throwing and catching. Pupils will start to develop these skills and link them into other activities as well as exposure to various topics across the PE Curriculum. Pupils will be introduced into competitive activities, competing against themselves and sometimes against others.

Key Stage 2 – Year 3,4,5,6

Pupils will continue to develop Fundamental Movements Skills based on Agility, Balance and Coordination, and will use these skills to a broader range of activities that are sport specific such as Tennis, Basketball, Cricket, Handball, Hockey etc… Pupils will enhance their communication and collaboration skills and will learn how to compete against others learning in the process how to win and lose, and demonstrate simple attacking and defending principles within modified small sided games. Pupils should start to develop strength, flexibility, different techniques and control and will compare their own and others performances. When comparing their own or others performances pupils will gain knowledge to identify strength and weaknesses and demonstrate how to improve.

PE Curriculum at Rise Park

National Curriculum Document

Click the link below to see the current National Curriculum…

PRIMARY National Curriculum Physical Education

Rise Park PE Policy

Rise Park, Intent, Implementation and Impact Document

Rise Park PE Action Plan

Rise Park PE SEND Support

Rise Park Assessment, Developing the Whole Child

Rise Park Curriculum Map

Click the link below to see our Long Term PE Curriculum Map…

PE Long Term Plan RP

Rise Park Skills Progression Map

Sports Ambassadors

These individuals are a chosen mix of responsible, confident, out-going Y5 and Y6 pupils with the main objective of raising the profile of PE at our school to as wider audience as possible.  They usually maintain the role for their final two years with us.

Sport Ambassadors attend a minimum fortnightly meeting with Mr Fisher to discuss their goals throughout the year, these usually consist of increasing participation in sport at lunchtimes for KS2 children, designing and managing the personal best challenges, working on the KS1 playground to run games and build leadership skills, hosting inter sport competitions, managing charity fundraising events, raising funds for improvements to the schools facilities, organising sports day and above all being positive role models to all others including staff at Rise Park Primary and Nursery.

Rise Park Sports Ambassadors require a of qualities, below are a list of qualities and some job descriptions required when taking up the role of a Sports Ambassador:

Qualities/Skills Required

  • Must be approachable and have a good relationship with all children
  • A positive role model and a good attitude towards learning and playing sports
  • Be a good team member
  • Able to engage and inspire others
  • Must be organised and be a good timekeeper

Our Sports ambassadors have been carefully chosen and show all of the qualities above. Their job role is very important throughout the school and below you will see a list of jobs our Sports Ambassadors will undertake throughout the school year.

Jobs:

  • Will run a Change 4 Life Club
  • Help run and organise Sports days
  • Always be an example to others especially in PE Lessons (Lead by Example)
  • Be ready for other Sporting needs throughout the year

Physical Activity At Rise Park

At Rise Park we offer a variety of ways the children can engage in Physical Activity and ensure pupils are exposed to the extra 30 Minutes a day during school to promote Healthy habits for the future….

Fun Fit intervention

The aim of Fun Fit is to improve a child’s co-ordination skills and underlying postural stability and balance. Activities included in the Fun Fit session plans will also help improve specific skills such as hand eye co-ordination, body awareness, spatial awareness and ball skills. Children that attend Fun Fit club at the beginning of the school day are often better focused in class, have more self-confidence and are more able to concentrate for the rest of the day. Children who are having problems in school due to poor co-ordination may well benefit from attending Fun Fit. The teachers work with Mr Fisher & Mr Gray and refer children that may have difficulty with issues like handwriting, dressing and changing, using a pair of scissors and general balance and posture in class.

Fun Fit runs alongside intervention three mornings a week and is usually a 3-month programme, therefore typically last for a whole term. The session runs between 8:20am–8:50am then the children are taken to start their school day. Fun Fit is a real celebrated success at Rise Park and is a programme that has positive impact on the children.

Sheriff’s Challenge

The Sheriff’s Challenge is high profile at Rise Park and involves every member of our team in some manner. Each key stage has two courses marked out on the playground and the other on the field. The KS1 courses are 50m long and the KS2 courses total 100m each. The children can take part in the Sheriff’s Challenge in whatever they are wearing be it PE kit or school uniform. Each class just grabs an iPad and once at the Sheriff’s Challenge track the class begins to run laps until half of the group have slowed to a walking pace, at this point the group stops. The number of laps ran are logged on the Sheriff’s Challenge whiteboards by the Sheriff’s Challenge monitor from that class.

The school’s expectation is that each class gets out and runs the Sheriff’s Challenge a minimum of three times per week, this essentially accumulates to another PE lesson but is manageable enough to not affect the classes timetable. Each class keeps track of the number of laps that were ran the week before and that is the score that we want to improve upon to ensure consistent progression.

Our PE Vision links perfectly to the Sheriff’s Challenge and that is why it is our whole school initiative.

Click the link below to see the benefits the Sheriffs Challenge has for our pupils….

The Sheriff’s Challenge

Lunch Time Activities

During lunchtimes the aim is to have as many Rise Parkers engaging in structured play as possible, remembering that lunchtime is period that should have enjoyment and child’s choice at the centre where possible. However, it is proven that physical activity positively transfers into the classroom, along with all the mental, social, emotional and physical benefits that we instil into our PE Rise Park ethos lead by Mr Fisher. Midday supervisors are an integral part of our lunchtimes flowing smoothly and are fully aware and updated on the lunchtime sport layout and rota, our middays are brilliant at using that unique relationship with the children to deal with the lunch side of lunchtime as well as refereeing sports, administering first aid for injuries, settling disputes, and providing that all important general care.

KS1
A good range of equipment such as a selection of balls, hula hoops, skipping ropes, frisbees, bean bags, quoits and a parachute are at the disposal of all children on the KS1 playground each lunchtime. We have a designated area for football which seems to be the most popular sport.  Daily trips are made to the KS1 playground from our Sport Ambassadors who design, manage and run different activities for the younger children which are always flooded with popularity.

KS2
We offer a wide variety of sports ruled by a strict rota to encourage broadening our children’s interests and skill sets. Basketball, Handball, Football and French Cricket are the sports that have been deemed most popular through the feedback of pupil voice. Through good organisation from our Sport Ambassadors all activities are set up on the playground 5 minutes before lunchtime starts, so our Rise Parkers can access as much sport possible in their lunchtime. On top of that we also have a weekly personal best challenge (PBC) which is always a closed skill task again, designed and ran by the Sport Ambassadors where you compete against yourself to achieve your highest score. Anyone is welcome to try as many times as they wish and the best score out of all KS2 children receive an award in assembly at the end of that week.

Play Leaders

All staff at Rise Park support one another, we have a handful of TA’s/ Nurture Specialists that go beyond their call of duty and take a select group of children at lunchtimes and to use sport/games as a medium of teaching valuable lesson/morals in keeping with our schools’ key drivers. Tackling difficult issues such as empathy, confidence, resilience, sharing, regulating emotions and how to behave correctly on the playground. The children enjoy the activities covered in these groups and get to focus on values that begin in the classroom. *This coincides with the lunchtime offer we already have in place**

School Sport At Rise Park

At Rise Park we offer the pupils a variety of Sports to engage and play competitively against other schools and non competitively within our After school programme….

Intra School Competition

The competitive element is a very important aspect of sport, and here at Rise Park we think that a winning mentality isn’t everything, but definitely something that shouldn’t be overlooked or under estimated. Our children regularly compete against one another in their weekly PE lessons, whether that be in one on one situations or team-based activities. There is plenty of opportunity to compete at a variety of sports during lunchtime that are well structured and officiated by staff and sport ambassadors. Weekly personal best challenges take place across KS2 focusing on personal development.. All these situations build our children’s confidence, empathy, drive and most important embed the ethos of our four Rise Park PE key drivers: resilience, emotional awareness, respecting the rules and collaborating with others.

Inter School Competition

Receiving the chance to represent your school is a privilege that we hope all our Rise Parkers strive for and will get the opportunity to do at some point through their primary education experience. Competing against children from other schools is something that can develop qualities that we expect and hope our children will take with them into their secondary education, such as self-esteem, fair play, respect for others and the game, determination, pride, compassion and many more. Rise Park aims to attend an average of three competitions each half term therefore aiming for roughly 18 over the course of the academic year, these competitions take place across all year groups in both key stages.

When in Y6, all children will have the opportunity to attend the Football after-school club, from this, there will then be the possibility of being selected to play for the school football team in competitive matches. In addition, we frequently look for shining stars in Y5 to bolster the squad if numbers are lacking, Historically, this club is really popular and there is always competition for places. The teams, matches and training sessions are run by Mr Kelly (Y6) and Mr Ginns-Farrows (EYFS) for both genders.

After School Club activity

After school clubs are a real positive for Rise Park and something our children are always very keen to attend and get excited about. Mr Fisher runs three after school clubs each half term. The activities are chosen through listening to the pupil voice and also in keeping with upcoming competitions. As a school our aim is to provide 3 after school clubs for each half term across KS1 and KS2, so each year group has one opportunity to attend an after-school club termly. Maximum capacity for each club is 12 children.

PE, Physical Activity and School Sport Termly Overview

Autumn 1 – 2024

This half term all year groups have been focusing on separate sports with a range of different skills. We have had after school clubs targeting different sports and competitions putting our skill to the test.

Year 1 have been focusing on multi-skills. With it being the start of the year, multi-skills is key for the year 1 children to learn. It give them basic balance, agility and coordination skills to continue and progress into different sports through-out the year.

Year 2 have been focusing on bench ball, a game that works on throwing and catching skills, progressing onto using those skills in a game scenario.

Year 3 have been focusing on handball. A game that works on attacking and defending, with different types of passing, dribbling and shooting skills.

Year 4 have been focusing on basketball. Key skills that have been the main focus with basketball for year 4 are dribbling with a basketball and using the correct techniques to shoot. Still using attacking and defending games but using dribbling and shooting as primary skills.

Year 5 have been focusing on tennis. Within tennis, we have focusing on create a rally using different hitting techniques. Techniques that have been the main topics have been a forehand, backhand and a serve.

Year 6 have been focusing on tag rugby. Within tag rugby we have been focusing on different passing techniques, how to travel with the ball and how to tag the opposition players. All these techniques build into a game to hold possession and attack areas in a rugby game.

Autumn after school clubs

Year 3 after school club has been dodgeball this half term. Within dodgeball they have been focusing different teamwork games to help them within a game of dodgeball, coming up with different strategies. Also introducing different dodging skills and improving balance and agility.

Year 4 after school club has been focusing on hockey. Key skills that have been focused on are different dribbling skills, passing skills, shooting skills and the all the safety rules around urban hockey.

Year 6 have had a football after school club. In football we have been preparing ready for our central school league fixtures starting the 10th October and running through until the end of this school year.

Competitions

Year 5/6 athletics competition- This half term 12 pupils for year 5 and 6 competed in an athletics competition against 7 other schools which was held at Harvey Hadden sports village. There were several relay races, including long distance, sprints and obstacle races. Also there was field events such as javelin, long jump, triple long jump, speed bounce and many more.

Autumn 2 – 2024

This half term all year groups have been focusing on different types of dance. We have had after school clubs targeting different sports and competitions putting our skills to the test.

Year 1 have been focusing on fundamental movements within dance including looking at different ways and speeds that the bodies can move.

Year 2 have been focusing on fundamental movements and the timing of body movements. With different genres of music they have explored how they can move their bodies to different beats. This led to creating their own dance routine.

Year 3 have been focusing on line dancing, each week we created a movement to add to the line dance routine. In week 1 we created a formation and then each week we added a movement, ending with a very professional line dancing routine.

Year 4 have been focusing on bhangra dancing and the way the body moves in this genre of music. They broke down a bhangra dance into separate movements and used this to create their own dances in their groups.

Year 5 have been focusing on soca dancing and the way the body moves in this genre of music. They broke down a soca dance into separate movements and used this to create their own dances in their groups.

Year 6 have been focusing on hip hop dancing. Each week we broke down 2 different movements. The goal for the end of half term was to use these moves to create a hip hop routine of 8 movements with a starting and end position.

After School Clubs

Year 2 have had a multi-sports after school club, each week we changed the sport that we focused on. This helps to introduce them to new sports and gives them transferable skills as they progress in PE through school.

Year 5/6 have had a cheerleading after school club this half term which was very popular. We created our own Rise Park cheerleading routine which can be passed on to other year groups.  This club was requested by and part led by the pupils.

Year 6 have had a football after school club. In football we have been training on weeks we haven’t had games.  The team have had a lot of fixtures this half term with the team sat 2nd in the local school football league.

Competitions

Year 5/6 athletics event. This half term we competed in the athletics finals competition. 12 year 5 and 6 children had the opportunity to compete against other schools in a athletics competition which mainly focused on running, jumping and throwing events. In this competition we came away with a bronze medal for placing third.

Year 5/6 cross country event. This half term we competed in a cross country event held at Wollaton Park. We had 12 students from across year 5 and 6 involved. All participants ran at a very respectable speeds with one student earning a chance to go to a cross country national’s event.

Spring 1 – 2025

This half term all year groups have been focusing on gymnastics. Each year group has been focusing on different movements that requires increasing skill levels which develops the children’s skill set year on year.

Year 1 have been focusing on body movements and mat safety. The mat safety is key to help the children stay safe as they progress through the movements.

Year 2 have been focusing on gymnastics and mat safety. Year two progress their body movement into creating gymnastics holds and movements while still learning about mat safety and how to behave in a gymnastics setting.

Year 3 worked on simple jumps, rolls and balances through-out the half term.

Year 4  classes worked on jumps, rolls and balances. We also focused on how we can get gymnastics equipment involved into the mat skills they worked on.

Year 5  classes worked on more complex jumps, rolls and balances. Using those skills year 5 created individual floor routines.

Year 6  focused on creating routines from all their previous knowledge of gymnastics movements while also adding new movements. Routines created were group routines, performed with gymnastics equipment to make the movements more complex.

Year 3  requested an after-school club that been focusing on Cheerleading . We created a routine inspired from the year 6 cheerleading performance last half term. Each week we added different movements to the routine with the end goal to perform to the parents at the final week of the club.

Year 4 after school club has been focusing on tag rugby. The children learnt key rules of the game and also the key skills involved in the game for example throwing, catching and running techniques. Having the knowledge of the rules and the skills that need to be applied allowed them to engage in numerous fun games towards the end of the half term.

Afterschool Clubs

Year 3  requested an after-school club that been focusing on Cheerleading . We created a routine inspired from the year 6 cheerleading performance last half term. Each week we added different movements to the routine with the end goal to perform to the parents at the final week of the club.

Year 4 after school club has been focusing on tag rugby. The children learnt key rules of the game and also the key skills involved in the game for example throwing, catching and running techniques. Having the knowledge of the rules and the skills that need to be applied allowed them to engage in numerous fun games towards the end of the half term.

Year 6 have had a football after school club. We have been focusing on improving the technical side of our game. We have been working on improving our passing, dribbling and shooting in hopes to using them in future friendlies against other schools and put our skills to the test.