Curriculum & Assessment
Sports Premium
Sports Premium at Stillness
Intent
Physical Education (PE) and school sport play a very important part in the life at Stillness Juniors and we are committed to ensuring that all our children enjoy the PE and enrichment activities that we offer at our school.
We believe that PE contributes to a child’s development and, through participation in sport activities, our children build and learn more about respect, tolerance, teamwork, resilience, friendship, trust and responsibility.
The introduction of the PE and sports grant has enabled us to;
- Raise the profile of PE and sport across the school
- Create and offer a broader and more equal experience of a range of sports and physical activities to all pupils
- Increase participation in competitive sport, with many pupils signing up for clubs outside of school
- continuously increase all staff’s confidence, knowledge and skills in teaching PE
What is the PE and Sports Grant?
The government is spending over £450 million on this funding over the 3 academic years 2013 to 2014, 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016 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 – has been 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
Purpose of the grant
Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport they offer. This means that you should use the premium to:
- develop or add to the PE and sport activities that your school already offers
- make improvements now that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years
- Schools have been given the freedom to choose how they use their allocation of funding however the DFE have suggested the possible uses:
- hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers
- provide existing staff with training or resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively
- introduce new sports or activities and encourage more pupils to take up sport
- support and involve the least active children by running or extending school sports clubs, holiday clubs and Change4Life clubs
- run sport competitions increase pupils’ participation in the School Games
- run sports activities with other schools
- Schools can also use the PE and sport premium to raise attainment in primary school swimming and water safety by funding top-up swimming sessions for those pupils that do not meet national curriculum requirements after they’ve completed core swimming lessons.
Basis of the allocation
Allocations are calculated on the basis that eligible schools with:
- 17 or more pupils aged 5-11 years (Jan 2014 census) receive £8,000, plus £5 per eligible pupil; and
- 16 or fewer pupils aged 5-11 years (Jan 2014 census) receive £500 per eligible pupil.
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