Curriculum Overview
At New Road all pupils will benefit from a Physical Education curriculum which motivates them to succeed and participate in sport, games, exercise, and other physically demanding activities. We believe that every child deserves the opportunity to grow into a confident, knowledgeable, and well-rounded individual. Through a rich and engaging curriculum, we provide children with the skills and experiences they need to thrive, both in school and in life.
We use EdStart to build our curriculum and support our staff to deliver high quality lessons. EdStart coaches work closely with our PE lead and all staff to ensure confidence when delivering their curriculum. They are readily available and teach in school across all year groups. This means that they know each of our cohorts and can offer specific support when it is required.
Our Physical Education curriculum is taught through a Know - Go - Show approach, ensuring children develop knowledge, physical skills and positive behaviours in every lesson.
EdStart – Know
Develops pupils’ understanding of rules, tactics, vocabulary, health benefits, and movement purpose. Through questioning and reflection, children think about their learning, not just perform it, building knowledge that supports confident, informed, and reflective participation in physical education and lifelong physical activity. This helps children explain what they are doing and why it matters, developing deeper understanding, confidence, and purposeful decision-making in physical activity.
EdStart – Go
Focuses on active movement and skill development. Pupils build coordination, fitness, and physical competence through progressive lessons, adapted using STEP (Space, Task, Equipment, People). Clear success criteria guide learning, helping children practise, refine, and confidently apply skills in different contexts. This ensures children become confident movers who enjoy being active, resilient, capable, and motivated to participate consistently.
EdStart – Show
Develops the personal, social, and emotional aspects of PE. Pupils build teamwork, leadership, respect, and resilience through collaboration and reflection. With clear success criteria, children understand their impact on others, growing into considerate, confident, and socially responsible individuals beyond sport. This supports children’s personal, social and emotional development alongside physical progress, building character, confidence, empathy, and positive relationships.
As pupils progress from EYFS to Year 6, we provide pupils with the opportunity to Move – Play – Compete as they become more competent in each area.
EdStart - Moving
Children will start their journey to becoming physically competent as they develop their fundamental movement skills through experiencing a broad range of activities. Children will learn the benefits of physical activity and leading healthy, active lives.
EdStart - Playing
Children will start to develop their fundamental movement skills further as they become increasingly competent and confident in a broad range of activities to extend their agility, balance, coordination, individually and with others.
EdStart - Competing
Children are given plenty of time to practice and refine their fundamental movement skills before they progress to applying them in more complex situations. Here children will engage in competitive sports and activities.
As children come to the end of our PE curriculum, they will have benefited from a PE Curriculum which has motivated them to succeed and participate in sport, games and exercise. Through this they will be fully prepared for High School and beyond. Through Physical Education, School Sport, and Physical Activity, pupils will engage in competitive and cooperative activities that help build character and promote values such as determination, perseverance, fairness, and respect.
New Road received the School Games Platinum Mark in July 2026 for our dedication and commitment to the promotion and development of sporting activities both in school and within the community.
Assessment
As there are no national assessment standards for PE, our teachers work alongside the Edstart Sports Coach to assess each child at the end of each term. The assessment is based on the skills and knowledge they have secured over the term and the progress they have made.
The teachers and Sports Coach use this assessment to inform and adapt future lessons to ensure our pupils are supported and challenged appropriately. Our PE lead is then able to analyse the data and identify any whole school trends or gaps to support future staff training needs.
Extra-Curricular Activities
Our curriculum is further enhanced by our children's participation in numerous sporting tournaments with other schools in the area, inter-house competitions and a variety of after school clubs. We also offer clubs that allow pupils to experience a diverse range of sporting activities that they may not otherwise have opportunities with which to engage, such as – Archery, Jag Tag and Frisbee.
In 2022 we introduced a new Family Fitness Is Fun after school club, the focus of the session is for parents and children to spend an hour exercising together in a fun, safe and friendly environment. We are passionate about ensuring our children and families well-being has as much of a focus as their educational teaching.
The activities in the session include working with equipment found in gym’s such as Boxing Gloves and Pads, Kettlebells, Dumbbells, Steps, Resistance Bands etc. The Sports Coach leads the sessions having already introduced the children to the equipment in their class PE lessons.
We were awarded a grant from Sport England through the ‘Opening Schools Facilities Funding’ which enabled us to purchase all of the equipment required. The aim of the funding, provided by the Department for Education, is to help schools deliver extra-curricular activities and open their facilities outside of the school day.
Cultural Capital
Where possible we do our best to make PE come alive! We plan trips and take children out into the community to provide first hand experiences.
Each year we invite Yorkshire Cricket, FC Halifax Town and Halifax Panthers into school so the children regularly experience training with professional athletes and are familiar with opportunities and pathways open to them in sport.
In 2022 to further inspire our girls football team, we arranged a trip for them to watch the opening game for England's Lionesses Euro 2022 at Old Trafford. This experience helped empower our girls and has given them the opportunity to see how their skills and passions can take them beyond school teams.
Also look at our Active School page in the News/Parents tab which tells you all about some of our amazing achievements linked to physical activity.