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Mr A Hewett Headteacher Manor Park Primary School Ulverscroft Road Cheylesmore Coventry West Midlands CV3 5EZ

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Ofsted subject survey: good practice in Physical Education (PE)

Thank you for your hospitality and cooperation, and that of your staff, during my visit on to look at work in using information communication technology (ICT) to support teaching and learning in PE.

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Ofsted subject survey: good practice in Physical Education (PE)

The visit provided valuable information which will contribute to our national evaluation and reporting. Published reports are likely to list the names of the contributing institutions, but individual institutions will not be identified in the main text without their consent.

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Ofsted subject survey: good practice in Physical Education (PE)

The evidence used to inform the judgements made included: observations of two PE lessons in which ICT was used to support teaching and learning; a discussion with the deputy headteacher and the subject leader for PE regarding the development of good practice; a meeting with a group of Year 6 pupils to talk about their achievements in PE and sport.

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Using ICT to improve provision and raise standards in PE included:

 the development of a portfolio of video clips to support teaching and learning  teachers’ use of ICT in Year 5 and 6 lessons to show pupils models of high quality performances to illustrate what they should be aiming for in their own responses  pupils’ use of PE-Pods to play video clips showing effective physical movements, in order to help them focus their own learning on achieving high quality responses  developing and refining a system for supporting teachers’ regular assessment, recording and reporting of pupils’ attainment and progress  using DVD resources to provide professional development opportunities for teachers and support staff to improve their subject knowledge and confidence in teaching PE.

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Areas for development

 embedding the good practice that is developing in Years 5 and 6 and establishing this in all classes in the school  continuing to make the most of the time allocated to the PE subject leader, through the sports partnership, to strengthen monitoring and evaluation.

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Areas for development

I hope these observations are useful as you continue to develop PE in your school.

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Areas for development

As I explained previously, a copy of this letter will be sent to your local authority and will be published on Ofsted’s website. It will also be available to the team for your next institutional inspection.

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