Norristhorpe Junior & Infant School

At Norristhorpe, we use the scheme ‘Complete PE’ which supports us in delivering a highly structured and sequenced curriculum. Our curriculum is designed to flow in a logical sequence of progression, enabling the learning to be developed within a unit of work.

The national curriculum organises physical education under four different areas.

Pupils:

• Develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
• Are physically active for sustained periods of time
• Engage in competitive sports and activities
• Lead healthy, active lives

In order to meet the national curriculum aims and to enable our children to develop a wide range of skills, our Norristhorpe curriculum is split into units:
Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage One

• Basic Movement
• Games
• Gymnastics
• Dance

Key Stage Two

• Games
• Athletics
• Gymnastics
• Dance
• Outdoor Adventurous Activities
• Swimming

Our curriculum overview demonstrates how the requirements of the national curriculum are met at Norristhorpe School.

Progress is attained by developing skills, as children move through school. Our Norristhorpe P.E curriculum revisits key areas of learning allowing pupils to revisit and build on previous learning.

Lessons are carefully designed to include a range of teaching strategies which include, independent activities, collaborative and group learning. Lessons are designed to encourage children to move for sustained periods of time. 

At Norristhorpe, children receive two hours of P.E teaching a week in addition to other opportunities in the wider curriculum. Key Stage Two children receive specialist P.E teaching once a week.

Our Year Four children receive swimming teaching from our local provider, enabling them to be competent in skills such as:

• swimming over a distance of at least 25 metres
• using a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
• performing safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

Norristhorpe J & I School have been successful in achieving the Sainsbury's School Games Gold Mark 

"The School Games Mark is a Government led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community".

The 'results' show the percentage of Year 6 Norristhorpe J & I School pupils who at the end of the academic year could swim at least 25m. Additionally 67% could perform safe self-rescue and 85% could use a range of strokes effectively.

The figures given for Kirklees Average & National Average are for the same time period.

Early December, a group of athletes from Years 5 and 6 participated in the North Kirklees Primary Sports Hall Athletics at Leeds Road Sports Barn. Despite the cold conditions, the children performed brilliantly in both track and field events. They demonstrated great sportsmanship and, thanks to our new Norry jackets, really looked the part. We eagerly await the results of this event.

In October, we attended the first round of the Spen Valley Cross Country event at Gomersal Primary School. Children from years 4, 5 and 6 participated in the event and they all performed amazingly! They represented our school brilliantly and we are looking forward to receiving the results soon.

In October, our year 6 mixed team played their first match as a part of a 7 a side league with local schools. We played Roberttown, and after a tough match it resulted in a loss for us. Despite this, the team represented the school brilliantly, showing great sportsmanship and playing really well as a team for the first time! Also, a special mention to ‘player of the match’ Oliver who was absolutely sensational in goal, even the Roberttown referee came over to tell us how amazed he was with Oliver! We are looking forward to our next match!

Well done to our Year 5 football team, who demonstrated fantastic sportsmanship and teamwork at the Spen football tournament. We didn’t manage to place in the top four but the team demonstrated some fantastic skills and scored some goals! Congratulations to the team and a special shout out to captain Archie who took on the responsibility of organising his team. Thank you to Miss Hodgson and Mrs Cooper for accompanying the children in the tropical conditions!

A massive well done to our superstar athletes who were absolutely amazing at the sports hall indoor athletics.  We are super proud of all our students for the way they performed but more importantly demonstrating our core values as a school.  Big Thanks to Sam & the team at Legacy Sport for a well organised event!

The results have been counted and verified and we are delighted to announce that our team of athletes have WON the first round of Sports Hall Athletics at Leeds Road Playing Fields competing against five other schools!  We will now enter the Finals day at Leeds Road Playing Fields in February 2023!

After heavy storms and muddy tracks, Kieran amazingly came 26th out of 201 other runners in the Cross Country National Final. This was 2nd out of the children representing West Yorkshire! Well done Kieran!!

On the 14th March, a group of Year 5 and 6 children participated in the BEE Netball festival at Batley Sports and Tennis Centre. They were taught important netball drills such as footwork and passing by experienced players and then broke off into matches with other schools. The children listened brilliantly and learned a lot about the sport, whilst showing excellent sportsmanship. Well done everyone!