PE

A recap of an excellent year of PE/Sport at Dale Hall in 2023/24.

2023 24 end of year sports newsletter.pdf

In 2024/25, through a multitude of opportunities, we strive to keep our levels of engagement high and promote a love of PE/Sport to all children.

PE & Sport offers opportunities to cultivate communication and leadership skills, to work as part of a team, and to develop resilience by learning to meet success and failure head-on. Most importantly, participation in sport is an excellent way to improve health and wellbeing. It helps all our pupils to learn to take responsibility for themselves, setting them up for later life by teaching them the importance of maintaining a balanced and healthy lifestyle.

At Dale Hall Community Primary we believe that children should develop both academically and socially to the best of their ability. It is our belief that participating in sport adds value to the lives of those in our community. The skills and lessons learned in winning, losing and taking part provides an enriching experience that are incomparable to others. In addition to these experiences, we learn about building relationships and problem solving- all key aspects of being ‘life ready’.

To facilitate this, we offer a broad and balanced curriculum designed to fall in line with the sporting competition calendar created in partnership with our school games organisers. Therefore our PE lessons work progressively to develop subject specific skills needed to compete against other schools. Currently competition fixtures are organised from years 2 -6.

Through our membership with the school games we offer opportunities to all of our children through Belong, Develop and Compete events. These are outlined below:

Belong Events
“Belong events are non-competitive and target pupils who would benefit from being more physically active and want to participate because they understand the benefits of physical activity.”
These events are fully inclusive and give children the opportunity to try new activities and develop their self confidence at the same time, for example All Stars Cricket.

Develop Events
“Develop events are for pupils who enjoy friendly competition, but don’t want to solely focus on winning and losing; instead they focus on supporting a pupil’s wider personal development.”

Compete Events
“Compete events are for pupils who are competitive in nature and enjoy performing and competing against others.”
These events are for your first team players and the emphasis, whilst still concentrating on fair play, is to aim to win. It may be that your school has more than one compete team. As a county, we aim to provide about 30 compete events over the year to ensure that there is ample opportunity for this. In some cases, winners may also go on to compete in county finals.

To support this we also offer a wide range of sporting activities, as well as lunch time and extra-curricular clubs.

Mr Hatcher
PE Lead

Hi everyone,

I am in my third year as the PE leader, having been a classroom based teacher for 5 years. My role consists of providing and ensuring the children receive exciting high quality physical education lessons, facilitating sporting fixtures, and organising tournaments across all key stages. As well as this, I am also the Health and Activities Leader and therefore will be providing an array of lunchtime and after school clubs for the children to enjoy, organising sporting trips and also equipping the children with the knowledge they need in order to live a healthy balanced lifestyle.

PE at home...

Joe Wicks

AFPE - PE at home, no equipment needed!

Dance Classes with strictly star Oti Mabuse & Marius Lepure

How can I support my child with PE?

1) Discuss and enjoy PE together

2) Practice at home where possible

3) Celebrate your child's achievements

4) Encourage your child to join a school lunchtime or after school club
Take advantage of the free lunchtime and after school clubs the school is offering. The timetable can be found on the Class Dojo School Story.

5) Join a local club
Use Families online website to find clubs around the area.

Why not take advantage of Inspire Suffolk's Turn up and play offer?

These sessions are completely funded which allow us to offer free sport and activities to local young children. Turn Up & Play has a fun and relaxed atmosphere where young people are provided with the platform to develop their social and physical skills.

At Dale Hall we use GetSet4PE as our scheme of learning.

GetSet4PE offers inspiring lesson content written by teachers. Teaching is built on knowledge and skills and gives children a secure foundation for their next phase of learning.

Here is an example of a curriculum map for Reception & Year 1: