Great Dunmow Primary School
Sports Premium
Sports Premium: 2023-24
The Government has provided every primary school with a Sports Premium Fund. This initiative has been set up to promote increased participation and competition and to widen the sporting opportunities in primary schools. Great Dunmow Primary school has been allocated an amount of £19,602 for 2023-24 and has a carry forward from the previous academic years of £9,343.
What is the Sports Premium?
The Government has continued to provide funding for the academic year of 2023/24 to provide, substantial primary school sport funding. This funding is being jointly provided by the Department for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and sees 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 the Funding
Schools have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this. Possible uses are:-
· Hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE in order to upskill their provision.
· Paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport
· Providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport
· Running sport competitions, or increasing participation in school games
· Buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE/sport
· Providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and holiday clubs
Great Dunmow Primary School – Sports Funding 2023/24
Our Sports Funding 2023/24 is used to employ an expert PE coach as our outdoor PE provider to develop our staff and enhance our offering. This entails an in-house sport coach who works with the teachers to support the children during not only PE in the afternoons but also at lunchtime and during after school clubs. This offering ensures that the quality of provision allows all pupils an equal opportunity to develop and excel. Our provision allowing for additional and sustainable improvements in our sport as each teacher is currently being upskilled by working alongside this expert while providing high quality sporting provision. The in-house PE coach allows us a flexibility to adapt to our schools’ changing needs and provide tailored support for the needs of our children and the specific competitions we participate in. This totals £16,714 from our Sports Premium Budget.
We have also spent a portion of our funding on a swimming teacher. This has given all our children a platform to improve their swimming and succeed early on in this key aspect. This totals £6993.24 from our Sports Premium Budget.
The impact of Sports Premium
The Governors agree that the money must be used so that all children benefit regardless of sporting ability, that staff have access to working alongside specialists and have opportunities for training and learning, whilst opportunities are given to all children to compete in tournaments and competitions. Our funding is used to enable our children to compete, learn and benefit from extra sports activities. We employ an expert inhouse sports coach who uses the Sports funding to give the children, along with assistance from the teachers, extra time for sports in the form of lunchtime and afterschool clubs, access to competitions and festivals as well as their timetabled PE lessons. The increase in clubs and engagement in sport has seen the participation rise each year, whilst the profile of PE has been raised as a result of this.
How will we spend future premium in 2023/24?
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Meeting national curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety |
Please complete all of the below:
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What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres?
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90% |
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What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]? |
90% |
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What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations? |
100% |
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Schools can choose to use the Primary PE and Sport Premium to provide additional provision for swimming but this must be for activity over and above the national curriculum requirements. Have you used it in this way? |
Yes |
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Remaining premium funds will continue to be spent in miscellaneous equipment which will expand, to range and breadth of the PE offering, to ensure the engagement of all children in sport and promote a regular, daily physical activity.
Funds will also be spent on investing in PE being is incorporated into other weekly lessons to encourage participation and enjoyment in both subjects and to increase the physical activity children undertake. Not only will staff be upskilled by continuously using various teaching skills, but there will be an increased confidence by all and will raise attainment in core subjects. Similar opportunities and resources are also being enquired about for future development.
2023/24 Events
Kwik Cricket and Three Tees Cricket Dodgeball
Cross Country Netball
Boys and Girls Football District Sports and Athletics
Swimming Tag Rugby
Mini Tennis Tennis
Archery Boccia
A review of Sports premium funding in 2023/24
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Area |
Objective |
Expenditure |
Impact |
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Equipment |
To renew and upgrade old and faulty equipment |
Footballs
Netballs and posts
Gym equipment
Playground equipment
Sports kits
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Replacing old and providing more equipment has meant we have been able to enter more children into tournaments as we have the equipment to practice
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Sports Coaching |
To provide improved sports coaching provided by in house PE specialist |
Sports coaches |
To develop all pupils’ skills in a range of sports through expert teaching
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Any funds not used in the current year were carried forward to the next.