Sports Premium
Sports Premium 2024-2025
For the academic year 2024-2025, the Government has provided primary schools 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 £19,630 for 2024-25
What is the Sports Premium?
The Government has continued to provide funding for the academic year of 2024/25 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. The desired outcome of this funding is:
· increasing confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sporting activities
· increasing engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity and sporting activities
· raising the profile of PE and sport across the school, to support whole school improvement
· offer a broader and more equal experience of a range of sports and physical activities to all pupils
· increasing participation in competitive sport
These may be achieved by:
· embedding physical activity into the school day by encouraging active travel to and from school and having active break times
· providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children
· helping to provide equal access for all pupils to the range of sports and physical activities that the school offers
· providing continued professional development (CPD) for all staff (as outlined previously)
· providing extra-curricular opportunities for children to enable them to access other sporting activities or specialist sport instruction
· providing top-up swimming and water safety lessons for those pupils that do not meet national curriculum requirements after they have completed core swimming and water safety lessons
· providing specialist support to help children with additional needs to access and participate fully in PE lessons
· entering local school competitions and holding inter-house competitions in the school to encourage participation
Great Dunmow Primary School – Sports Funding 2024/25
Our Sports Funding 2024/25 is used to develop our staff and enhance our offering both in terms of the range of pupils and competitions we able to enter and number of PE linked opportunities we can provide before, during and after the school day.
This entails utilizing a PE specialist who works with the teachers to upskill them, supports the children and provides greater opportunities during not only PE in the afternoons but also at lunchtime and during morning and after school clubs. This offering ensures that the quality of provision is high for all and it allows all pupils an equal opportunity to develop and excel in a fuller range of sports.
Our provision allows 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 funding allows staff access to professional development when required and The in-house PE specialist 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.
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 with top up swimming sessions and key targeted swimming group sessions available.
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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 use 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 2025/26?
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 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.
2024/25 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 Rounders
Golf
Inclusion specific events including Multiskills and ten pin bowling
Reporting PE and Sport Premium Grant Spending