Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact
Lantern Academy’s Personal, Social, Health and Education (PSHE) curriculum has been carefully written to address how to be safe and successful citizens in the 21st century, incorporating an understanding of the complexities within the community in which the children live and covering things that worry our children. Learning takes place in a variety of ways including through drama and role play, active discussion, debate and collaboration and teaches children how to stay safe, what to do if something worries them, how to remain healthy and how to build and maintain successful, healthy relationships. We provide pupils with the tools to act respectfully, take responsibility for their own behaviour and choices, be effective communicators able to articulate their views and opinions in different ways and show empathy towards others.
Our academy values are the golden thread through our PSHE curriculum, and we provide examples of how they are transferred into the ‘real world’. The topics and themes support the social, moral, spiritual and cultural development and proactively teach essential safeguarding issues ensuring the children have the required knowledge or when and how to ask for help.
We want all children at Lantern Academy to love being involved in Physical Education and see the benefits to their personal fitness and mental health. Our children access PE lessons for a minimum of two hours per week. One lesson is spent engaged in an outdoor PE lesson and the other is an indoor lesson. The different lesson focus on different skills and knowledge. These are built up as the children progress through the academy. In addition, our PE lessons incorporate the benefit of taking part in physical education lessons, accessing sport outside of the academy, what we mean by a healthy lifestyle as well as playing fairly, with honesty and becoming an effective team player.
Links are made within PE to other subject areas such as Personal, Social, Health and Economy and Science where more in depth studies into nutrition, healthy living and being active citizens within the local and wider community take place.
Lessons have been created using the National Curriculum aims and objectives and written into sequences of learning.
Children access a wide range of sporting activities throughout their time at Lantern Academy including net and wall games, striking and fielding activity, invasions games, gymnastics, dance and adventure. During the summer term our Year 4 and 5 children also go swimming, along with any children from Year 6 who haven’t met the required standard.
As a school with mixed age classes topics for Physical Education are mapped out over our Long-Term Plan cycles. Teachers then access sequences of learning, with resources demonstrating how to teach PE effectively.
Throughout the academic year children have the opportunity to access a range of after-school activities such as multi-skills, football, basketball, hockey, boccia and gymnastics. In addition, children have the opportunity to take part in a variety of sporting events and competitions both with schools who are also part of the Learning Community Trust and schools from the wider Telford area.
Our older children are nominated to become House Captains and through our job shop, Key Stage 2 children can apply to be Play Leaders and lead sporting games with the younger children during lunchtimes.
We use the Jigsaw Scheme of work to support our teaching of PSHE. Each half term focuses on a different theme and is the same across the school. This ensures that learning is built upon, and skills and knowledge developed in an age-appropriate way. These themes are Being Me in My World, Celebrating Differences, Dreams and Goals, Healthy Me, Changing Me and Relationships.
Weekly lessons are timetabled in, but should an event or something happen which requires an immediate address, additional sessions are factored in. Elements of PSHE lessons are also incorporated to our whole-school and class assemblies. This approach prepares children to be responsible, safe citizens as well as alleviate fears and worries regarding events either locally or in the wider world.
Activities within lesson and retrieval opportunities assess all children’s understanding of the content taught. Children are also given opportunities to reflect on their own understanding and that of their peers. Teachers are provided with the learning objectives, success criteria and specific knowledge to be taught within a lesson, this includes key questions and vocabulary. Opportunities to put their learning into practice in real-life situations are provided, for example our younger children practice crossing the road using the green cross code, our older children take part in community litter picks demonstrating the respect and care they have for the area in which they live and are educated and our student bodies, such as the school council, safeguarding squad, eco squad and attendance ambassadors work with our school community to help make improvements and keep everyone safe.
Additionally, we want Lantern children to leave us recognising how to be healthy both in body and mind, understand the British Values and demonstrate how to apply these in their everyday lives both inside and outside of the academy, recognise their emotions and employ strategies in managing these, develop trusting, positive and healthy relationships with their peers and academy staff, recognise who they can talk to in times of need, understand RSE at an age-appropriate level and develop their own confidence and self-esteem.
The skills and knowledge the children learn through their PE lessons equip the children to be able to take part in different sporting activities and develop a love of physical activity. Alongside this, the education provided around living and maintaining a healthy lifestyle and being a positive team player will prepare them for the next stage of their education.
Our overarching aim is that our children grow up to live happy and healthy lifestyles utilising the skills taught through their Physical Education lessons.
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