Sports Provision

At Barnston Primary we have excellent sports provision and facilities, with each child accessing 2 hours dedicated sports time, alongside a week block of swimming every year for Y3-6 and Bikeability for Y5/6. We have bought into get set 4 PE Scheme of work that is tailored to the New National Curriculum, complete with Medium term planning and assessments. This covers all PE and games sessions linked to the National Curriculum and you will see from our progression of skills grids that the children have plenty of opportunity to revist those skills in order to perfect them and for knowledge to stick. In addition, we employ two other Sports Specialist Providers/our PE & Games lead, to cover the 2 hours of games each week in every class - 1 provider for Key Stage 1 and one for Key Stage 2. All of this ensures that any improvements we make through our use of Pupil Premium spending and through our strong assessment and commitment to Specialist Sports Providers are sustainable. Furthermore, staff receiving top class training from the Sports Provider also ensures this sustainability if the Sports Provider is off ill or on training.

The children are taught progressive skills and differentiation takes place in lessons to enable children to make progress at their level. The teachers are coached during these sessions and the Providers sometime provide additional training in staff meetings, demonstrating with groups of children after school, with parental permission. Assessments are made at the end of every term and lesson plans are quality controlled by the provider managers, the PE subject leader and the Headteacher. All the provision is monitored to make sure that the standard is high and that all children are receiving good to outstanding lessons in PE/dance and games.

Barnston also has a number of high quality sports clubs that are extra-curricular or at lunchtime, with competitions organised across schools in football, cross-country running and swimming. Our Gifted and Talented pupils are well provided for in lessons, or in regular extra activity during the school day. In addition, we organise a Health Promoting and Sporting sleepover for Y3 and residential trips for Y4 and Y6. Furthermore, throughout the school year we have 6 competitive sporting events which the whole school access, with the last one attended by parents. Our sport goes National and International, as our provider organises National competitions, such as darts championships with National and International names attending, trips to sporting events in Europe for a week e.g. Portugal 2023 and National links with Man United, Liverpool and Everton training. International links with USA and recent talks with Saudi Arabia have taken place, as well as a partnership with Nike and our sports provider - this provides the best materials and resources for our children. International guest appearances in school are regular to inspire children to be the best that they can be and these have been organised by the sports provider/lead.

98% of our Y6 pupils in 2022/23 can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres, the other 22% being able to swim 15 metres varying the strokes. 100% can use a range of strokes effectively and perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations. We are proud of the fact that at Barnston swimming is delivered Y3-6 and the pupils are able to build on skills in previous years.