Physical Education

P.E. at KFS

The Intent of Physical Education at Kirkburton First School

PE at Kirkburton First School is taught in line with the Key Stage attainment targets as set out in the 2014 National Curriculum. Key Stage Objectives are distributed across year groups and teachers use these to develop their planning and assessment. Many objectives are repeated across year groups to ensure that key skills are revisited and developed to allow children to build on previous learning.

Through discussions with the Shelley Pyramid, it has been reported that many children are arriving at Kirkburton Middle School and Shelley College without the basic fundamental movement skill. At Kirkburton First School we have therefore adopted a scheme of learning that focusses on helping the children to develop these fundamental skills and which allows for progression across the school, right from when children join the school in EYFS until they leave the school at the end of Year 5. By becoming more secure in these fundamental movement skills the children should become more competent to excel in a broad range of physical activities. The Power of PE scheme of learning was purchased by the school in December 2020 and has now been implemented across all classes.

As well as focussing on the fundamental movement skills, the Power of PE scheme of learning also promotes the development of the whole child through a multi-ability approach. Each unit links directly to one of six multi-abilities and the children work on the same six multi-abilities as they move up through school.

These multi-abilities are:

• Personal
• Cognitive
• Social
• Health and Fitness
• Creative
• Physical

The Implementation of Physical Education at Kirkburton First School

Shelley Sports Pyramid Locally Agreed LTP

PE at Kirkburton First School tends to be taught as a stand-alone subject, covering specific skills as required. Wherever possible some cross-curricular links are made but these are only used where appropriate and are not expected at all times. All classes are allocated a minimum of 2 hours of PE per week, except children in EYFS. Children in EYFS have a one hour PE lesson each week, but also work on their physical development every day through both the indoor and outdoor provision, working on developing both gross motor and fine motor skills.

Through the implementation of the Power of PE scheme of learning, there is a clear continuity across our school. Each year children build on the skills they have developed in the previous year and they also develop their skills through the six multi-abilities that run throughout Power of PE.

The Power of P.E. Learning Outcomes

Class teachers adapt and amend aspects of the  Power of PE scheme of learning to best suit the individual needs of the class they are teaching, providing they ensure that the statutory objectives from the National Curriculum are still being covered. The scheme is also supplemented with additional PE topics/units of work more specific to individual class-based units or topics, such as maypole dancing in Year 1 or country dancing in Year 3. The subject leader will ensure that all objectives have been taught by the end of each key stage.

All children in Year 5 take part in weekly swimming lessons for the second half of the year.

Where appropriate staff are encouraged to use and promote physical activity in other subject areas. For example, the BBC Super Movers website has been shared with staff as a way of promoting physical activity in both Maths and English lessons. This is with the aim of meeting the Governments 30:30 recommendations to increase daily physical activity for all children. 

We also offer lunchtime sporting activities through the use of our Year 5 play leaders and through the employment of sports coaches who are employed for two lunchtimes a week. As a school we are also part of the Shelley Pyramid. The pyramid organise a very wide variety of inter-school events, some of which are linked to the School Games Pathways. All of these events are opened up to all children across school and we have seen increases in the numbers of children participating in these events in recent years. 

The Impact of Physical Education at Kirkburton First School

 Our children regularly compete in Shelley Sports Pyramid Events, shining their lights and talents before others. In recent years we have seen particular success in Football and Cross Country (as you'll see from the photos above!)

The P.E. at our school contributes to children thriving physically not just in school, but out of school too. A number of our children represent in their sport at a district, county and even national level - we are so proud of them!

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Swimming

Our Year 5 children participate in swimming lessons with Kirklees Active Leisure for 1 1/2 terms. Please see our most recent Swimming Results below.

	Able to Swim 25m	Range of Strokes	Safe Self-Rescue
2024	94%	85%	74%
2025	87%	81%	66%