Sport Premium Funding
The government provides additional funding to schools to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. This funding – provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport – will be allocated to primary school Head Teachers. This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools.
How to use the PE and Sport Premium
Schools must spend the funding to improve the quality of the PE and sport activities they offer their pupils, but they are free to choose the best way of using the money.
For example, the funding can be used to:
- Providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children.
- Embedding physical activity into the school day by encouraging active travel to and from school and having active break times.
- Providing staff with continued professional development (CPD), mentoring, training and resources to make sure that the future quality of the teaching of PE, sport and physical activity is sustainable - the DfE identifies this as a priority.
- Helping to provide equal access for all pupils to the range of sports and physical activities that the school offers.
- Raising attainment in swimming for pupils that don't meet National Curriculum requirements after they’ve completed core swimming lessons.
PE and Sport at St Mary's
At St Mary's Catholic Primary School our vision for sport and PE is to:
- Increase participation in sport
- To improve and develop teacher skills
- To ensure that all children reach their sporting potential
- To improve the quality of PE provision
- To promote a healthy lifestyle, impacting on progress and attainment
- To be inclusive
Areas to Develop in 2024/2025
- Continue to support and extend use of our PE coaches through team teaching whole school PE, ensuring progression of skills for all pupils.
- Continue to offer variety of alternative sporting opportunities, including para-sport to support whole school vision of inclusivity.
- Extend competitive sport fixtures to all age groups, ensuring equity of participation for all pupil groups.
- Identify focus areas for further teacher professional development and embed conistently high teaching strategies across the school.
- Develop the role of playground leaders amongst the older children to increase physical activity for all on a daily basis..
- Identify non-swimmers earlier in their school life and provide top up swimming lessons to ensure they meet national curriculum standards.
- Continue to build on links with local sporting organisations to enable visits and school workshops, with a focus on Sports Week activities.