Physical Education

At Waddington and West Bradford, 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. We use GetSet4PE to ensure progression across all phases, record evidence and track pupils' acquisition of skills. 

As well as ‘intra-school’ competitions, we also participate in a wide range of ‘inter-school’ competitions, festivals and events, organised by our School Games Organiser through the Hyndburn and Ribble Valley School Sports Partnership.

The aims of our ‘intra-school’ and ‘inter-school’ competitions, festivals and events are to:

• Develop confidence and competence within physical activity/sport skills.
• Increase regular participation and motivation.
• Improve knowledge and understanding of sport and physical activity.
• Build social skills and connections (i.e. sense of belonging).
•  Championing physical literacy Improve health and wellbeing (i.e. 60 active minutes)
• Engage new/target groups of young people.
• Provide inclusive opportunities.
• Create positive and memorable experiences.
• Promote success and achievement
• Support transition into secondary schools.
• Develop leadership, character and life skills.
• Champion youth engagement.
• To engage/influence wider stakeholders.

 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 tailored and specialist intervention in order to develop their Fundamental Movement Skills and gross motor targets provided within OT reports.  Physical Development (Fine and Gross Motor) is closely tracked within the EYFS and Year 1 through half-termly mapping of Continuous Provision.

School Swimming

Our swimming curriculum pool provider is Ribblesdale Pool who assist with school swimming and the 9 water safety/self-rescue areas within lessons across the year. The weeks are shared between Years 3 and 4 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. 

60 Active Minutes Offer

Due to high obesity rates and low participation in physical activity outside of school time in the North West, Waddington and West Bradford 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 and welfare staff

Wednesday - Playground leaders and welfare staff

Thursday - Playground leaders, TAG Sports and welfare staff

Friday - Playground leaders 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.

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.

We were very lucky to have a trainer from the Hyndburn Sports Partnership to come in and train 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. 

      

   

School Games Mark 2026

We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games GOLD Mark Award for the 2025/26 academic year.

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

We have loved competing in local inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport!

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

A special thanks to Mrs Hartley for organising all of the events and leading PE across school with such passion and dedication.