What is the Sports Premium?

The Government has provided funding of £150 million per annum across all primary schools and academies to provide new, substantial primary school sport funding. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to Primary Schools to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.

Purpose of funding

Schools will have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and  sport, but they will have the freedom to choose they do this.

Sport at St. Michael’s

Investment of the Sports Grant is planned for to ensure sustainability of PE and sports provision across our school. At St. Michael’s RC Primary School we believe that active participation in PE and other Sports creates happy, healthy children with a readiness to learn. It also equips children with the skills and enthusiasm for lifelong participation in physical activity and sport. Children’s early experience of sport is crucial to the development of high levels of expertise. At St. Michael’s this is promoted and developed through a combination of school based physical education as well as other structured activity programs run out of school hours.

Swimming Information

Question Stats: Further context

Relative to local challenges
What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres? 78% of children in the cohort

(22 children out of 28)

 

 Some of our children have never been swimming before, therefore school swimming lessons are their first experience of a swimming pool.
What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort can use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke]? 75% of cohort

(21 children out of 28)

 

 Most children can use breaststroke as their main stroke as this is the first technique taught at swimming lessons.  

 

What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort are able to perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations? 32% of cohort

(9 children out of 28)

 

 Just less than a third of the cohort are competent with this. The cohort need more practice in the use of techniques in this area. The lessons are for two weeks and so the children receive 10 1.5 hours sessions over the year.
If your schools swimming data is below national expectation, you can choose to use the Primary PE and sport premium to provide additional top-up sessions for those pupils that did not meet National Curriculum requirements after the completion of core lessons. Have you done this? Yes Children at St Michael’s attend swimming lessons in Year 4. The children have support over this year. Some children who have not mastered the basics and who cannot swim get additional swim sessions in Year 5 & 6.