The government is providing additional funding of £150 million per annum 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 each primary school. This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools.
Purpose of funding
Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.
Possible uses for the funding might include:
- hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work with primary teachers when teaching PE
- Supporting and engaging the least active children through new or additional clubs/coaches.
- Paying for professional development opportunities for teachers in PE and sport
- Providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE and sport
- Running sport competitions, or increasing pupils’ participation in the School Games
- Buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE and sport
- Providing places for pupils on after school sports clubs and holiday clubs
- Pooling the additional funding with that of other local schools.
All sports professionals run a variety of After School clubs where our aim is to get ALL children involved; money is directed into ensuring this happens with financial support provided for those parents who are entitled to it. Our children regularly have the opportunity to take part in inter school competitions across Shrewsbury and North Shropshire and we are proud of the success we achieve at our school. This funding will ensure we can maintain and improve upon the results we have achieved.
From 2021, every child in Year 5 will take part in swimming lessons, with the aim for every child to be able to swim 25 metres by the time they leave Year 6 pupils.
We carry out unit assessments of each child in the different strands of Physical Education. The assessments are used to plan for the next units of work, to ensure every child makes expected progress throughout their time at our school.
St Mary’s prides itself on the range of competitive sports offered to the children throughout the year. The children frequently progress past local competitions and regularly compete against the best schools in Shropshire.
All children are encouraged to participate in competitive sport and provision is made for those children who might find it more difficult if it wasn’t for this support. Transport and events organised in school time have enabled disadvantaged children to participate and excel.
We are also very fortunate to have such wonderful support from our parents, grandparents and friends at all our sporting fixtures.
Find out more about our Sport and PE Funding Expenditure in the document below:
PE and Sports Premium Impact 2023-2024
PE and Sport Premium 2023_2024
PE and Sports Premium Action Plan 2022-2023 Impact
PE and Sports Premium Action Plan 2022-2023
Sports Premium Impact and Evaluation 21-22
Sports Premium Action Plan – 21-22
Impact of sports premium review – July 21