Sport

Langley Hall Primary Academy believes that Physical Education should be creative, captivating and inspiring. Children can participate in a plethora of sports, develop core skills and gain valuable experience in competitive sports through our extremely successful school teams. Sports taught at LHPA include Football, Netball, Rugby, Athletics, Gymnastics, Basketball, Tennis, Rounder’s, Cricket, Hockey, Swimming, Dance, Danish Longball and Handball. This abundance of sports develops a wide variety of skills that prepare children for competitive sports but also for life, linking in with our school motto “We are preparing for life”. We have a passionate PE team, and this is reflected in planning, preparation, and execution of lessons, providing children with the best possible physical education.

Reception children learn through Create Development Storybooks, which gives them a fun and creative way to develop their fundamental movement skills, which acts as a foundation to develop their skills further and put them into practice with fun games and creative challenges.

The PE team consists of 3 Sports leaders, Christopher Johnson who is Head of Sport, Bailey Jackson who is Football Coordinator and Michele Forster who is Netball Coordinator supported by 7 Sports Coaches bringing our Sports Team total to 11.

Reception children have 2 hours of Physical Education each week broken down into an hour of cohort PE, 30 minutes of individual class PE and a 30-minute swimming lesson. Year 1 and 2 children have 2 hours and 30 minutes of physical education each week broken down by an hour PE lesson, an hour swimming lesson and a 30-minute dance lesson. Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 children have 3 hours and 30 minutes of Physical education each week broken down into 2 hours of PE, an hour swimming lesson and 30 minutes of dance.

Children are grouped in mixed ability class groups with a focus on peer on peer support to ensure all children are challenged appropriately. Weekly dynamic assessment informs future planning and lessons to ensure children are all making excellent progress during PE lessons. Lessons are well structured with a warm up, main activity and plenary game and we use a variety of facilities such as the playground, local sports field, local astroturf and a local charity hall for Gymnastics lessons, at Langley Hall we take pride in building strong community links.

We offer an extensive range of 28 extracurricular Sports clubs and offer movement interventions are in place to aid children who need more support with their fundamental movement skills. Intensive swimming lessons are offered during half term to enhance children’s skill level.

Our Physical Education curriculum has a tangible impact on all children at Langley Hall Primary Academy and children make excellent progress in Physical Education. They are given knowledge to lead healthy active lives where their wellbeing is at the forefront of Physical Education. This impacts on their holistic development and they also gain the skills to be successful competitively against other schools in fixtures. Most importantly children at Langley Hall Primary Academy enjoy Sports as we continue to foster a love for Sports and Physical Activity.

We have recently been recognised by the Youth Sports Trust for our high quality Physical Education provision and have received their Gold Quality Mark. They have also praised us for our well thought through curriculum and our ambitious vision and offer for PE.