Physical Education and Sport Premium for primary schools
Sports Grant Spending
Financial Year 2016 to 2017
The government have committed to provide dedicated PE and Sports Premium funding for primary schools to improve outdoor spaces for PE and sports activities. This funding has been allocated directly to primary schools who have a certain degree of autonomy with how they spend it.
Many schools utilise this funding in the following areas:
- hire specialist PE teachers
- hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers
- provide existing staff with teaching resources to help them teach PE and sport
- support and involve the least active children by running or extending school sports clubs, holiday clubs and Change4Life clubs
- run sport competitions or increase pupils’ participation in the School Games
- run sports activities with other schools.
Vision
The vision of the Department for Education for this funding is:
All pupils leaving primary school physically literate and with the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy, active lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.
Allocation
The allocation we received for 2016/17 was £8,785. The allocation for 2017/18 is now based on a lump sum of £16,000 plus £10.00 per pupil. Our allocation for the financial year 2017/18 is £17,530.
Impact
The positive impact of our focus on primary sports is critical when deciding on how to allocate our funding. We have considered and evaluate the impact of activities in a number of areas:
Pupils
- Increased pupil participation
- Positive attitudes to health and well-being
- Improved behaviour and attendance and reduction of low level disruption
- Improved pupil attitudes to PE and school sport
- Clearer talent pathways
- Engaged or re-engaged disaffected pupils
- Increased pupil awareness of opportunities available in the community
- Pupil concentration, commitment, self-esteem and behaviour enhanced
- Positive behaviour and a sense of fair play enhanced
Curriculum
- Enhanced, inclusive curriculum provision
- Enhanced, extended, inclusive extra-curricular provision
- Extended provision
- Enhanced quality of provision
- Increased pupil participation in competitive activities
- Increased range of opportunities
Staff
- More confident and competent staff
- Increased capacity and sustainability
- Easier pupil management
- Positive impact on middle leadership
- Enhanced quality of delivery of activities
- Increased staffing capacity and sustainability
- Enhanced quality of delivery of activities
- Increased staff knowledge and understanding
- More sustainable workforce
- Enhanced quality of teaching and learning
Whole School
- Improved standards
- Positive impact on whole school improvement
- Enhanced communication with parents / carers
- Increased school-community links
- Whole school targets met more effectively
- Academic achievement enhanced
- Staff across the school can start to make the links across subjects and themes including PE
- Good citizenship promoted
Measurement and Evaluation
Although many of the areas above are difficult to measure as the outcomes can be subjective, feedback from students to staff, is very positive and valuable.
The continued increase in participation levels, pupil behaviour and general interest is positive.
Although it may be difficult to directly link the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme with primary sports and PE, the huge interest in the scheme does suggest a positive attitude from pupils and sustainability of active participation.
We are continuing to provide staff training in effective teaching of PE across the school. Ultimately this will enable the school to sustain effective sports provision without excessive use of external providers.
Children currently have regular access to enhanced high-quality PE lessons.
Children have been up-skilled in their physical education and development which we feel has been a substantial boost to their engagement in lessons.
The skills training of children has enabled them to participate effectively and successfully in a range of activities throughout the year.
The quality of swimming in the school will be raised.
Spending for 2016 to 2017
During 2016/17 we received a total of £8,785 of which we spent £7,151 during the year. The remaining balance of £1,634 will transfer to 2017/18.
At this school we have chosen to spend our grant in the following way:
| Target Area | Cost. | |
| Purchase of specialist gymnastics equipment to facilitate the provision of long-term activities for the pupils. Proportion of cost to sports grant. | £2,604.00 | |
| Purchase of a range of general sports equipment, hockey sticks, safety mats, basketballs, volleyballs, hula hoops, etc. | £973.00 | |
| Provision of off-site swimming lessons throughout the year. | £1,261.00 | |
| Provision of an after school Nature Games Club. | £1,400.00 | |
| Provision of Aerial hoop and Circus Workshops. | £300.00 | |
| Country Dance classes. | £110.00 | |
| Specialist staffing for after school activities. | £51.00 | |
| Staff training. | £448.00 |
We have also employed a Games Teacher working on 21.25 hours per week. Although a substantial amount of her time is allocated to working with and developing sports activities for the primary pupils, we have not apportioned any of her costs to the grant within the year 2016/17.
Our aims which are in-line with the DfE ensure that pupils leaving primary school are physically literate and with the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy, active lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.
November 2017