Front Street Community Primary School Sports Action Plan 2015-2016

This year will be an exciting year for Front Street Community Primary school as from Easter 2016 we will be moving into our new school, with new facilities and a new large P.E. hall space and improved external areas.

Our aim this year is to protect school sports during the transition, grow the promotion of P.E. to more of a sport, activity and healthy related culture throughout school. It has been given a new tag line of Active – Exercise – Sport as opposed to purely P.E.

FRONT STREET COMMUNITY PRIMARY
SCHOOL SPORTSACTION PLAN2015-2016
Objective / Method / Aims / Impact / Sustainability
Pupils
Increase participation in exercise and active lifestyles in school outside of the 2 hours of standard P.E. / Maximise club opportunities at school.
- Increase early morning pre-school offer where uptake is evident.
- Ensure one sport club after school on every day with a variety of offers and ages catered for across the year.
- Maintain Energy Club offer for KS1 as a free club, letter drop PP children first before open to year group.
- Offer strategic lunchtime clubs for competition preparation during the year.
- 50% of KS2 children in some additional activity at least once a week. / - To broaden the range of clubs to allow children to attend with different skills and abilities.
- Expose children to a range of skills not always explicitly linked to a sport e.g. passing skills, running or general get fit exercises.
- Maximise all possible school time to hold clubs and introduce new clubs as a trial.
- Target pricing to ensure that there are free and chargeable clubs / opportunities throughout the year. / - Increase overall engagement in physical activity outside of P.E. lessons.Monitor with attendance lists.
- Increase participation by less active children through clubs and activities outside of P.E. / - Monitor the range of clubs over the year to review uptake with clubs, times and terms.
- Increase the club offer run through local sports clubs so that direct talent spotting can occur through PE and clubs. Annual survey of children in new clubs inside and outside of school.
Maximise engagement;
- Ensure that pre-tournament ALL children are exposed to the sport on offer if a team is attending. For example prior to a basketball tournament in year 5, all pupils in year 5 should have opportunity to do basketball skills in P.E. not just a selected team.
- Streamline activity days / festivals so that whole year groups go rather than splitting across year groups, therefore promote fairness and opportunity across the events e.g. KS1 multi-skills event; all of year 1 to attend rather than some year 1 and some year 2. / - Increase whole year group participation so that children not historically involved or engaged with sport are exposed to more activities with a whole range of children. / - Improve peer relationships and encourage children within the year groups to join with friends.
- Allow full access to all children for sports.
- Improved fitness and wellbeing.
- Improved exposure to sports throughout school year for all children. / - Talent spot through referral letters.
- Continue with cluster sports and with Gateshead SSP links for events.
- Be more strategic in booking coaches around events.
Promote activity and healthy lifestyles through school events and classes;
- Playground buddies to offer daily ‘fit club’ activities on KS1 playground every lunchtime.
- Fit Fun afternoon initiatives for one day a week all of KS1 to complete 15 minutes exercise on the yard run by Secondary School leaders or external agency.
- Change4life club to review with teachers to ensure run at good time; mornings or lunchtime and encourage sports leaders to take further responsibility. / - Create more of a general culture of movement and activity.
- Link in with healthy eating focus on newsletter fortnightly. / - Whole school approach with emphasis on fun fitness.
- Change4life club run before school during which one sporty child will invite a less sporty child in their year group. This allows buddying and then direct coaching of skills for sports tournaments.
- Recognise successes in clubs through assemblies and fortnightly newsletters. / - Targeting year 3+ to allow children to have opportunities in the following 3 years at school.
- Provide a mass participation event allowing low skill, high uptake of activity in fun fitness.
- Monitor uptake in competitions and clubs.
- Meet Sainsbury’s School Award targets for club participation across the year.
Improve pupil self-assessment and feedback on skill bases. / To simplify pupil self-assessment on a set of basic skills;
- Create a children friendly assessment for the start and end of a half term skill programme within the P.E. curriculum.
- All KS2 children to complete for one course each half term. / - Improve self-awareness across entire school for the children of the improvement in their own ability.
- Recognise success within themselves.
- Improve children awareness of basic skills and importance across all sports. / - Allow children to become accountable for their own progress and see improvements in their own perceptions of skill and ability.
- Accountability to coaches and staff for progress. / - Questionnaires completed each term by KS2.
Collect in annually the questionnaires and review gaps, where children haven’t progressed. Review with teacher / coach.
Improve playground facilities (prior to school move). / To purchase using sport premium money additional equipment for playground use and storage;
- Playground buddies to be responsible.
- Improve storage for equipment after playtimes.
- Provide more equipment so that children can free play and develop their own skills. / - Encourage children to play more actively.
- Improve playground activities.
- Promote more healthy lifestyles.
- Encourage responsibility for maintenance and care of equipment. / - Allow all children opportunity to play and learn skills at different times during the day.
Sports crew to monitor and feedback on equipment.
- Yard timetable to encourage a range of equipment to be used.
- Reduced behavioural problems within playtimes but also allow opportunities for children to work through issues e.g. those that arise during team sports etc. / - Use of playground equipment increased.
- Children applying skills learnt in PE.
- New school to ensure outdoor facilities are maintained and kept equipped.
Increase awareness of how ability and disability impacts on sport across all skill levels in school. / Raise awareness in children of the impact of ability and disability;
- Liaise with Gibside school and SSP to obtain equipment to work with children.
- By ensuring that festivals are completed by the whole year group this will promote inclusiveness and engagement.
- Compete in calendar of SEND events. / - Promote inclusiveness.
- Following SSP timetable for sports events. / - Raise awareness.
- Involvement with local schools during sports week.
Plan in and fund from budget. / - Annual event.
- Improve club participation and monitor participation by SEND children.
- Boccia Tournament and Sportsability festival competitions.
- Monitor SEND access of clubs.
- Follow SSP SEND calendar.
Staff
Increase awareness and accountability amongst staff across the school. / To ensure that P.E. is given a whole school approach so all staff are aware of expectations, commitments and responsibilities.
- All staff given full year timetable and calendar in advance to ensure P.E. planning and tournament preparation is explicit.
- P.E. responsibility split between one teacher and two T.A. staff so there is immediately a whole school approach.
- Noticeboards formalised to advise about ‘what is on’ and what is coming up.
- CPD offered to ALL staff and CPD calendar given termly to all employees in school.
- All staff given a self assessment review when working with a coach and also a guide to take notes of lessons. / - Increase skill base across teaching staff.
- Increase awareness of ranges of sports to all staff. / - Engage new enthusiasm in P.E. with new skills being pushed during P.E.
- Increase staff accountability and responsibility and allow improved discussions with pupils about sports, competitions and events.
- Reduce fewer last minute timetable changes due to sports event and teams needed. / - Ensure children are allowed out for events.
- Ensure that should coaches be off or removed the following year that the teacher can sustain lessons and show progress.
- Improve teacher engagement in coached lessons.
- Staff lesson monitoring for coach delivered lessons means they will upskill themselves and be able to provide continuity.
Competitions / Gifted and Talented
Maintain attendance at competitions across the Whickham School Sports cluster events, plus the Gateshead School Sports Partnership. / Due to the school move there will be a significant impact on additional activities during spring and summer 2016.
- Maintain from last year the attendance at mostl local competitions events.
- Increase number of intra-school competitions with all year groups having one afternoon of intra-school competition based on that term’s sport, run either by the coaches, teaches or Sports Leaders from Whickham Comprehensive. / - Maintain presence at cluster school events.
- Minimise disruption to children across the year.
- Ensure continuity for gifted and talented children. / - Required for Sainsbury’s award scheme.
- Ensure the school maintains its local success in key sporting areas.
- Allow a focus for G&T children. / - Ongoing award success.
- Ensure succession planning for future teams.
- Use skills in school and amongst teachers to maintain presence in regional events.
Push with external Sports Clubs. / Promote and encourage uptake in external sport clubs;
- Improve links with 6 external sports clubs to encourage children to uptake training and coaching out of school.
- Target coaches in school to pick out gifted and talented to invite parents to attend clubs with children out of school.
- Monitor uptake of clubs out of school from coaches in school.
- Welcome coaches from external clubs and societies into school to promote their own services and activities. / - Promote the uptake out of school.
- Encourage teachers to identify gifted and talented children.
- Praise and reward our gifted and talented population within school. / - Increase the flow of children from school to local clubs.
- Ensure visibility that the school is identifying G&T in sport. / - Every term a form returned to PE coordinator of G&T names and letters issued.
- Coaches to complete.
- Clubs days held at school for talent spotting.