PE and Sport

For information regarding our spending of the PE and Sport Premium, follow this link: Evidencing the Impact of the Primary PE and Sport Premium.

Our school is fortunate to have magnificent grounds and 2 good size halls in which to enjoy our PE and sport, which is a strength of the school, both as part of the curriculum and in enrichment opportunities.  Our children have many opportunities to learn new physical skills and games and to take part in sports festivals and competitive sports. The school competes regularly in cross country, athletics in winter and summer, football, cricket, dance, hockey, basketball, bouldering, swimming and orienteering, along with attending as many particpation-based events as we can find places for our children on.

PE Lessons

We have a broad PE curriculum, with an emphasis on developing motor skills and coordination; teamwork and cooperation; competence and confidence in a range of physical activities. Children are encouraged to develop their health and fitness and gain a life-long love of many forms of physical exercise.  Two hours of curriculum time are dedicated to PE lessons each week across all year groups.  These lessons cover aspects of athletics, dance, gymnastics, team games and outdoor and adventurous activities. Children also take part in many outdoor and adventurous activities whilst at Dore during enrichment activities, including residentials.

We use the 'Get Set for PE' scheme of work as the base for our PE curriculum.

Swimming

Children in Y4 have swimming lessons booked through Sheffield LA. Each class travels to the pool by coach for their lessons.  The children are grouped according to swimming ability. Dore staff support trained swimming teachers and the children work towards the National Curriculum expectations for swimming and then beyond to develop further swimming skills and water safety practice and understanding. The children have the opportunity to gain the ASA Water Skills Level Award and also at the end of the programme can show their skills in a long distance swim to gain a distance award. Information about the Y6 swimming results can be found in: Evidencing the Impact of the Primary PE and Sport Premium.

Inter-School Competition

Our children are able to take part in great many different sporting events each year.  Many of these are hosted by the Forge School Games Organisers; some by the Sheffield Federation for School Sports.  Many of these competitions form part of the School Games programme. In recent years we have had tremendous success in many sporting competitions, including becoming: Y5/6 Bouldering team second place in Sheffield and individual first place; Y4 South Yorkshire Quicksticks Hockey Champions; Y4 South Yorkshire Dynamo Cricket Champions; Y5 Open and Girls’ Sheffield Dynamo Cricket Champions; and Y6 Open and Girls’ Yorkshire Dynamo Cricket finalists (and winners) several times.

During their time at Dore Primary, EVERY child is given the opportunity to represent the school in at least one sporting competition, should they wish to.  Almost every child chooses to take up this opportunity. 

In total in 2023-24, we took 31 teams from Y2 to Y6 to events in 21 different sports competitons / festivals.  As a combined total, around 900 children have been out, including everyone in Y3 attending at least two external events and every child in Y4 attending at least three external events.

In 2023-24, EVERY child in Y2, Y3 and Y4 participated in at least one external school sport event during curriculum time. Almost every child in Y5 and Y6 pupils also attended competitive events and festivals, meaning around 88% of these year groups represented school this year.

Recent successes include:

Y4 South Yorkshire School Games Basketball Champions

Y6 Sports Hall Athletics City Champions

Y4 Dynamo Cricket South Yorkshire Champions

Y5 Open Dynamo Cricket City Champions

Y4 Hockey South Yorjshire Champions

Y6 Girls Dynamo Cricket Yorkshire Champions

Y5/6 Bouldering Individual Champion

Intra-School Competition

The Wileman Cup, named after a legendary former headteacher, is our annual intra-school football competition.  It has been running for well over 30 years.  Boys and Girls from Y4-Y6  are mixed into teams named after local roads, and play two mini-leagues during lunchtimes.  The top two teams from each league then go on to play semi-finals.  The event culminates with a cup final, watched by the whole school.  The event is supported by Y6 Team Captains organising teams and equipment and refereeing the games.

School Sports Day

Our first whiole-school Sports Day was in 2012, when we hosted our first 'Dorelympics' to conicide with the London Olympics. Since then we have had many themes, including 'Steel City', 'Team Dore', 'Made in Sheffield', 'Stronger Together', 'Shefield: The Outdoor City' and 'Platinum Jubilee'.  With 2024 being an Olympic year we held our fourth 'Dorelympics', themed around the Paris games.

Our sports days are always inclusive, multi-sport events, where all children take part in every activity on offer.  Activities normally include, dance, athletics, traditional sports day races, team-building a nd problem-solviing.  Children are split into teams, and have coloured t shirts to denote which team they belong to.  Y5 and Y6 children lead many of the activities, and older children are encoruaged to help younger members of their team.  We have an opening and closing ceremony, and the sight of 450+ children wearing their team shirts and taking part in different sports, all at the same time, is quite a spectacle.