The PE and Sports Premium grant – what is it? What do we do with it

and what is the impact?

PE and Sports Premium is an amount of money awarded to all Primary Schools to help improve the quality of the PE and sports activities offered to and available to their pupils. Whilst schools can choose what to spend their PE and Sports Premium money on, it can’t be spent on anything else other than for enhancing PE and Sport in order that the health and wellbeing of all pupils is enhanced.

St Paul’s will receive a grant of approximately £19 578.

Here is a quote from DFE direction on how to use the sports premium:

Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport they provide...

...you must use the PE and sport premium to:

• develop or add to the PE, physical activity and sport that your school provides
• build capacity and capability within the school

...You should use the PE and sport premium to secure improvements in the following 5 key indicators:

• providing targeted activities or support to involve and  encourage the least active children
• encouraging active play during break times and lunchtimes
• establishing, extending or funding attendance of school sports clubs and activities and holiday clubs, or broadening the variety offered
• adopting an active mile initiative
• raising attainment in primary school swimming.....

How we spend the money.

We spend our pupil premium funding employing our sports coach, Mr Ashraf.

Mr Ashraf team teaches PE lessons alongside our teachers. He also runs playtime and lunchtime sports and physical activities to improve children's fitness and health. During the 2023-4 academic year, he ran playtime and lunchtime sports clubs as follows: Y2, Y5, Y6  (180 children) lunchtime 2 and a half hours, Y3, 4, 6, 1 (240 children) playtime 1 hour 15mins. In addition, Mr Ashraf runs a range of after school activities with the same aim, running the following activities during 2023-4: Y6 football, cross country running, "Multi Skills" including basketball, cricket and athletics; Y5 cross country running and Multi Skills, Y4 Dance (20 children, targeting Pupil Premium at a discounted rate); cross country running, dodgeball; Y3 Dance (20 children, targeting Pupil Premium at a discounted rate), Y1-2 Games Club.

We also are part of the Pendle Sports Partnership which gives our children access to a great range of sporting activities and competitions such as: Upper KS2 boys' football; Upper KS2 girls' football; mixed boys'/girls' football; KS2 crown green bowling.

We are also using the sports premium to fund training for teachers in teaching PE.

IMPACT

Last year was a successful year for sport at St Paul’s with the following:

• An encouraging number of pupils engaged with the above extracurricular sports. There was more provision for younger children and we targeted particular groups to participate such as SEND and Pupil Premium so that sport was accessible to all.
• Increased provision of extracurricular sport activities to cater for the above.
• Wider participation in competitive sporting opportunities through the Pendle Leisure Trust (PLT), school participating in these events during 2023-4: Pendle Legends Boys' football league; Pendle Girls' football league; Pokemon Cup football competitions for boys and girls; KS2 crown green bowling at Alkincoats Park
• XXXX NEEDS UPDATING Y6 children in the 2023-4 cohort could swim with XXX NEEDS UPDATING performing a range of strokes and XXX NEEDS UPDATING being able to perform safe self rescue in water.
• 30/60 children learned to swim through Y4 swimming lessons.  

How will we maintain and sustain these improvements?

The PE and Sports Grant is not a guaranteed form of income.  However, we endeavour to promote sustainability by providing training for staff. 

In addition to timetabled sport, we incorporate activities such as ‘wake and shake’ spots in transition times between lessons in order to keep our children active and alert.

 Existing good practice and involvement with the membership to the Pendle School Sports Partnership (PLT) will be continued / renewed and is paramount to maintaining the children’s enthusiasm and drive for physical education.

We also have a "Forest School" which fosters activity outdoors and a range of large play equipment on our playgrounds. This play equipment is very well used and certainly enhances the activity of the children at break times.

Our Y6 residential trip (in 2024 to Hothersall Lodge, in previous years to the Anderton Centre) provided different physical activities.

During 2024-5, we intend to explore the feasibility of a "pop up" swimming pool in order to teach more children to swim.