Sports Premium

At St Andrew’s, we believe that purposeful Physical Education provides a unique contribution to the whole curriculum from the start of the Foundation Stage to the end of Year 6. Our Physical Education programme enables pupils to 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. School Sports Premium Funding has enabled us to provide high quality PE experiences to our pupils. Pupils are provided with a wealth of experiences as they progress through the school which enable them to build on their knowledge, skills and understanding of health and fitness. The school facilities enable pupils to engage in indoor and outdoor activities which help to embed values such as fairness and respect.

St Andrew’s Infant School follows the Real PE scheme embedded fundamental movement skills; agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning, as set out in the National Curriculum 2014. Each unit of work has a different focus to develop key abilities necessary for success in PE and sports across the curriculum: creative, physical, health and fitness, personal, social and cognitive. We teach pupils to nurture and be respectful towards others, develop a ‘growth mindset’ and learn key sportsmanship skills. All children are included and challenged to improve their form and given opportunities to extend their learning using equipment and resources. Children are confident in setting targets, practising and improving on their personal bests, as well as engaging in competitive sport with their peers. Children are exposed to scoring, rules and the fairness of games giving children an opportunity to become patient and resilient.

Real gym and dance are taught as secondary lesson to support the development children’s fundamental skills and floor movement patterns as stated in the National Curriculum 2014. The lessons follow a very similar format to the original scheme and children are familiar with warm up, skill, skill application and review.

Twinkl Move is used to help children to learn how participate in simple team games using attacking and defending skills. Children learn traditional games; egg and spoon, sack races and throwing to help them to participate in an annual sports day. Year two children have an opportunity to learn how to maypole dance, they learn and practice traditional dances to educate children in British Values. In EYFS, staff have used the Cosmic Yoga videos to help children to learn how to be calm through story telling yoga.