Coates Lane maintains an infectious sport and competition ethos which encompasses the 6 Spirit of the Games Values!

This academic year will be focused around girls, sticky knowledge and teacher confidence.

Physical Education

At Coates Lane, in line with the minimum DfE requirements, each class is timetabled for two separate hours of PE each week so that lessons are of high impact. This academic year, we have embedded the use of the Primary PE Passport app to ensure progression across all phases, record evidence and track pupils' acquisition of skills. Children change into their kits for PE lessons within school to ensure self-care, independence skills and confidence are attained.

To achieve mastery, the PE Passport curriculum is purposefully repetitive so that learning is sticky. Lancashire are proud that their PE Scheme of Work Progression document (2020) continues to envelope children in a structured curriculum which values the connections made between existing and new learning through practice and application within core tasks. When designing our PE long term planning on PE Passport, the subject leader considered pupil start and end points in each year group, following the SSP inter-school events calendar, opportunities for children to practice and apply their learning in meaningful ways, development of character values, dual coding opportunities and signposting teachers to specialist mentoring CPD. Please see our PE Passport long term overview planning below (detailed mapping of physical skills and character values can be found in the uploads section). This is subject to change in line with the needs of our cohorts.

Fundamental Movement/Gross and Fine Motor provision and intervention

Children within the EYFS, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, who have been identified as low participators and/or demonstrating gaps within physical development or linked with a Special Educational Need, receive weekly tailored and specialist intervention in order to develop their FMS and gross motor skills. This takes place on Friday afternoons. Physical Development (Fine and Gross Motor) is closely tracked within the EYFS and Year 1 through half-termly mapping of Continuous Provision (Teachers and PE Subject Leader).

School Swimming

Our curriculum school swimming and pool provider is Pendle Leisure Trust - West Craven Sports Centre who assist with school swimming and the 9 water safety/self-rescue areas within lessons across 17 weeks, each year. The 17 weeks are shared between Years 4, 5 & 6 in order to secure consistent success towards achieving National Curriculum requirements before leaving primary school. Children in Year 6 who do not meet national curriculum swimming and safe self-rescue requirements by the end of their final core swimming block are provided with top-up Sport Premium funded sessions in the summer term. On our road map and following the supportive guidance of Jess Squires (Lancashire PE Teaching and Learning Consultant), we are looking forward to scheduling Sport Premium funded infant sessions at the pool for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 in the summer term.

60 Active Minutes Offer

Due to high obesity rates and low participation in physical activity outside of school time in the North West, Coates Lane commits to providing our children with 60 active minutes, per day, outside of their weekly PE lessons. Children are encouraged to be physically active throughout the day through the following offer:

Classrooms (10 minutes):

Within each year group, the class teacher plans to embed 10 minutes of moderate to high levels of physical activity into lesson warm-ups, recaps, hinge questions or plenaries each day.

Breaktimes (20 minutes):

Playground leaders and staff set up fun and collaborative games which get the children moving.

Lunchtimes (45-50 minutes):

Monday - Playground leaders and welfare staff

Tuesday - Playground leaders, Sports Cool and welfare staff

Wednesday - Playground leaders, Sports Cool and welfare staff

Thursday - Playground leaders and welfare staff

Friday - Playground leaders, Phil Cain (INTRA league) and welfare staff

Wet playtimes:

When the weather is unsuitable for safe, outdoor play, children stay in their classrooms and participate in high-energy workouts by dancing and exercising to videos such as Joe Wicks, Just Dance and Go Noodle.

Active Travel

Following the success of previous movement events, raising money for charity through physical activity and the Pendle 'Beat the Street' initiative, our road map involves introducing a weekly Active Travel initiative through 'Move it Mondays' and 'Wheelie Wednesdays' - watch this space!

Playground Leaders  

As part of the essential criteria for achieving Gold in the School Games Mark, a proportion of children on roll must be provided with training opportunities to develop their leadership skills.

Recently we were very lucky to have the support of Fiona Callaghan (SGO Pendle) who came in and trained an elected team of Playground Leaders within our school. From this, the team have been issued with tabards and a timetable which they share the responsibility, throughout the week, of promoting active break and lunch times on the playground and a platform for making friends by setting up games in their designated area.  The children have been trained to look for children who may be alone or not being physically active. These children are also responsible for electing young leaders throughout school to shadow and assist them throughout the year. Young leaders are also given the opportunity to support and assist during our Sports Days.

Sport Ambassadors

Each year, two Sports Ambassadors are appointed in school and meet regularly with the PE subject leader. Their role involves assisting with Intra and Inter events (participation and competition), school games days, gathering pupil voice and evaluating our school's active minutes offer. This year, as the national focus is on girls, we have elected two female pupils to raise the profile of physical well-being, participation in sport and promote the school games values across school.

Bikeability

In partnership with Go Velo,  Coates Lane values the importance of equipping our pupils with the skills and confidence to cycle on today's roads. Go Velo runs a recognised Bikeability Scheme registered with the Department for Transport. Bikeability is the modern version of Cycling Proficiency, designed for current road conditions to teach how to ride a bike confidently. There are certificates and badges for each level. Classes timetabled for Bikeability are listed below:

Year 5 - Autumn 1

Year 3 - Autumn 2

Year 4 - Autumn 2

It is within our road map to provide two EYFS staff with Learn to Ride training through Go Velo so that our Reception children may develop their gross motor skills through Bikeability and the purchase of balance bikes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School Sports Partnership - Pendle

Each year, Coates Lane uses a portion of the Sports Premium to pay into Pendle's School Sports Partnership. Through this membership, we are provided with a plethora of tailored sports events for a wide range of abilities and backgrounds, coaches to broaden the children's experience within new sports, CPD for staff, network meetings, pathways for children to represent their school, playground leader training and much more! We were thrilled to have committed to and attended 39 inter-school events last academic year and to have been selected to represent Pendle at the Party in the Park for girls football! Our School Games Organiser for Pendle is Fiona Callaghan, who is based at Pendle Vale College.

SSP 2024-25 - Inter-School Sports Events attended

Y4 Footgolf

Y3 Multiskills

Y5/6 Football League Seeding Festival

Y5/6 Girls Football (rained off and to be rearranged)

Y5/6 Legends League Round 1

Y5/6 Legends League Round 2

Y3/4 Indoor Athletics

Y5/6 Indoor Athletics

After-School Sports Clubs - Autumn 1 2024

Wednesday - Girls Football (Rob) & KS2 Boxing (Endrit)

Thursday - Boys Football (Rob)

Friday - Mixed Netball (Marie) & Girls Multiskills (Phil)

After-School Sports Clubs - Autumn 2 2024

Tuesday - Gymnastics (Kayleigh)

Wednesday - Girls Football (Rob) 

Thursday - Boys Football (Rob)

Friday - Mixed Netball (Marie) & Dodgeball (Phil)