Oakmeadow Church of England Primary and Nursery School

At Oakmeadow, we recognise the positive outcomes that a high-quality PE and school sport curriculum can achieve in all personal, social, cognitive and physical aspects of a child’s development and well-being. We strive for teaching and learning of PE that promotes confidence, participation, progress and performance in a safe and supportive environment. We aim to embed a culture of PE and school sport of participation, enjoyment, academic achievement, and understanding of health and well-being of our pupils that they continue to live by beyond our school. Our PE curriculum is inclusive and we ensure that pupils of all abilities access the range of activities we offer and that they are physically active for sustained periods of time in order to encourage them to lead healthy, active lives. Through this, we meet the needs of Physical Education programme of study as set out in the National Curriculum for Primary Schools.

Our curriculum is designed to offer both variation and progression across our key stages.  In EYFS and KS1, the focus is on the development of fundamental skills key to physical literacy.  In KS2, these skills are then developed and refined through the teaching of skills needed to play different recognised sports. 

At our school, we fully believe in finding the right balance between developing competition - an inherent and motivating element of sport - and offering inclusive opportunities for all children to take part in order to enjoy the positive rewards that sporting participation offers.  In order to achieve this successfully, we have a programme of competitions that we offer throughout the year in a variety of disciplines, following the Schoolgames pathways.

For the majority of our children we offer level one competition through daily PE lessons, through taking part in mini-games and end of unit competitions.  Since the academic year 2018-19, we now also run a regular and successful House competition throughout the year in different disciplines that are run according to the recognised rules.  For those children in years 4-6 who want these more structured and competitive experience, houses play each other in a league format until an overall winner is announced.

At level 2, inter school level, we take part in as many Schoolgames competitions as possible - in 2018/19, we took part in over 20 competitions in different disciplines.  Children who demonstrate the right sporting values in school and those who are recognised as progressing well in PE lessons or House competitions are offered the opportunity to participate in our representing teams.  We have performed well over recent years and have had both teams and individuals go on to represent Shrewsbury at level 3 level.  Participation is also offered in the annual and prestigious area swimming gala and summer athletics meeting.  We are regulars in the local schools and Shropshire FA football competitions, in which we have achieved much recent and notable success.

We recognise that lots of our children want to represent their school against other schools and the pride that comes with this.  We are striving to increase the amount of opportunities we offer to provide this by liaising with local schools to arrange competitive friendlies so that as many of our children can enjoy this experience as possible.