PE and Sports Premium

The use of and proposed impact/effect of primary PE and Sports Premium at Sherwood Foundation School 2024-2025

Background:

The sports funding is provided jointly by the Department for Education, the Department for Health and Culture and the Department for Media and Sport. It has been allocated to schools with primary aged children and is ring-fenced, meaning that it can only be spent on the provision of PE and Sport in schools.

The PE and sport premium is in place to help pupils to be more healthy and active. It should be used to make sustainable improvements to the PE, sport and physical activity you provide, such as:

Funding high-quality PE and sport for at least 2 hours a week
Providing a wide range of extracurricular sport and competitive opportunities
Providing or improving equal access to sport for boys and girls

The DfE also identifies 5 key priorities for improvement:

Increasing all staff’s confidence, knowledge and skills in teaching PE and sport
Increasing engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity and sport
Raising the profile of PE and sport across the school, to support whole school improvement
Offering a broader and more equal experience of a range of sports and physical activities to all pupils
Increasing participation in competitive sport

Allocation:

Schools with 17 or more eligible pupils receive £16,000 and an additional payment of £10 per pupil. For the academic year 2024-2025, Sherwood Park School will receive an amount of £16,780 with additional £1,823 carried over from last year.

How will we be spending the Sports Premium funding:

We believe in a holistic approach to the development of sport and physical activity for all. We intend to use this Sports Premium to continue and boost our sports provision, through further enhancement of our PE curriculum and our Extended Schools provision. This will help to ensure that our pupils are given every opportunity to be healthy, confident and with support, take part in a range of sports thus raising participation and achievement for all.

It will enable the school to provide funding for:

Specialist dance coach from ‘Radiate’ (SPC/SHC)
A Crystal Palace Football in the Community coach (SPC)
Specialist coach for panathlon sports (SPC)
Swimming at the Waddon leisure Centre (funding both coach/life-guard and supporting staff) (SPC/SHC)
Horse riding in Diamond Centre (SPC)
Bouldering sessions at the Yellow Spider Centre (SHC)
Inclusive cycling sessions (SHC)
One off events, for example, cycling and Eco- Cycling sessions, bowling (SPC/SHC)
Sporting Equipment (SPC/SHC)
Maintenance of sporting equipment (including servicing of school cycles and swimming equipment) (SPC/SHC)
Purchase of additional resources to enhance pupils experience (SPC/SHC)

We aim to:

Increase engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity and sport

Provide pupils with a range of opportunities to experience different sporting and physical activities, including horse riding, swimming, cycling and climbing.

Raise the profile of PE and sport across the school, to support whole school improvement

Provide an annual thematic day based on ‘Sports Activities’ /an all-inclusive Sports Day.

Increase all staff’s confidence, knowledge and skills in teaching PE and sport

Staff to model best practice by observing/supporting during activities delivered by specialists (football, panathlon and dance teacher coaches)

Offer a broader and more equal experience of a range of sports and physical activities to all pupils

Provide our pupils with a greater range of physical activities that these pupils do not always have the opportunity to access
Increase the provision of Dance sessions in curriculum time
Expand our Panathlon activities to include additional Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils which will enable more pupils to participate in Panathlon
Increase access to the swimming pool to ensure that all Sherwood Park pupils are able to swim regularly. To support regular swimming by ensuring that support staff are available to assist.

Increase participation in competitive sport

Provide Panathlon training sessions to enable pupils to participate in Panathlon Challenge Competitions resulting in an increased participation in competitive sport.
Enable pupils to participate in daily mile before the start of lessons, each morning to prepare them for the start of the day.

Impact/Effect:

We will measure the impact/effect of the activities provided through Sports Premium funding by:

Monitoring the numbers of pupils involved in sporting activities during curriculum and break time.
Monitoring the number of pupils that participate in sporting competitions and their achievements. This will be evident from the number of awards/certificates and medals pupils win
Monitoring each pupil’s progress in their ‘Physical’ and ‘Social and Emotional’ Personalised Learning Programme Targets/ Outcomes
Gaining feedback from school staff and external coaches

Year 6 Swimming competency statement

Pupils at Sherwood Park School continue to work towards developing their confidence, and proficiency at swimming at least 25 metres in the pool. So far none of our Year 6 pupils can swim 25 metres, use a range of strokes or perform safe and self-rescue in different water based situations. This is a result of their developmental and physical delay.