Shaping Learning For Life
PE sports premium
Keeping healthy and encouraging children to be active learners is at the heart of our curriculum, not just in PE but in the wider breadth and balance of the curriculum however, we are lucky to receive funding specifically for PE by virtue of the London Olympics drivers to sustain lifelong habits of being active and healthy. We have established the peer mentor scheme which is very active and children have taken real responsibility in enacting this scheme to it’s fullest; they choose a ‘Perfect Playground Partner’ who has engaged with their games all week and shown good friendship to others on the playground, they organise activities at lunchtime so that everyone can be busy and active and they thrive on teaching others new skills; hula hooping or skipping at the moment! The sustainability of the improvements made as a direct result of the money is evident in the higher quality PE learning that children are undertaking and their passion and interest when we are gathering together teams for events. Teachers are now in the cycle of planning and delivering good quality PE lessons and have avenues of support to use if they feel they have a dip in skills or need to know something new.
What did we spend our money on?
Find out all you need to know about how we spent our money in 2025-26 and the impact it had on our pupils – it was our most successful and consistent sporting year yet! We received the grand sum of £17,300.
What will we spend it on this year?
Although the funding comes to schools split over 2 financial years, it still spans the entire academic year and we have a plan! See below for details of how we using our funding to improve children’s health in 2026-27. The plan shows our original plans with some of it greyed out – these are the adjustments we have made after the Government announced the partial withdrawal of funding – the exact amountis still unconfirmed.
Platinum sports award
Back in the summer of 2023, we were awarded the School Games Platinum award and have retained it every year since. This is a special award only given to schools who have achieved five consecutive years of Gold awards and is in recognition of our continued commitment to high quality, regular sport.
Our children develop, over time, a real appetite for PE and the peer mentor programme grows from strength to strength. Bronze ambassadors found their feet and have been leading the daily mile and a growing number of physical challenges – our playground is positively buzzing!
Swimming
So that children can get the most out of the residential experiences as well as have life long ‘life skills’, we have invested heavily in swimming since the pandemic. On return to lessons, we found a lot of our Year 4 children were still scared of the water having had little opportunity to get in the water during COVID lockdowns and the subsequent restrictions.
In 2022-23 therefore, not only did we provide swimming lessons for all children in Year 4 and also for those in Year 5 & 6 who couldn’t yet swim 25m during school time, we also used our PE premium funding to pay for extra intensive swimming lessons for those children in Years 4-6 who couldn’t swim 25m and their siblings in most cases too so that children are at least water confident by the time they get to Year 4.
We have continued this commitment to every child being able to swim and have life-saving skills into 2025-26 by taking year 2 swimming as well as year 4 and in the interim, catching any child who cannot swim at year 4 by paying for holiday intensive swimming courses so that all year 6 children leave us with this vital life skill.
We maintained support for any child who was not able to swim 25m by paying for in-holiday intensive swimming courses in conjuction with a local swim school.
Of our Year 6 who left in July 2026;
- 90% could swim 25m or more
- 90% could undertake a range of strokes efficiently
- 85% could perform a safe self-rescue in different water based situations