Corpus
Christi Primary SchoolSports Premium
Overview
Corpus Christi Primary School endeavours to create inspired and enthusiastic pupils through our Physical Education and School Sports offerings. The required number of Physical Education hours per week is consistently carried out across the school, with additional sessions taking place where opportunity arises.
There are a wide range of PE extra-curricular clubs put on across the course of a year. These include: Multi sports, Netball, Hockey, Football, Table Tennis, Dance and Yoga.
Sports festivals organised in conjunction with Newman RC College and the Catholic school cluster have provided opportunity for competition and participation for children across a range of sports.
We have also organised and played Inter-school friendly boys and girls football matches with a number of local schools.
Each year children from year 6 are trained as Play Leaders. They take responsibility for the planning, resourcing and organising of both competitive games and skills based activities with groups of children at lunchtimes.
PE and School Sport Funding
The PE and Sports Premium is designed to help primary schools improve the quality of PE and Sport.
Some evidence of ways the money is being spent throughout the school:
- Hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work with primary teachers when teaching PE: Dream Big Sports are specialist sports coaches delivering a range of sports from Nursery to Year 6.
Background
The Government provides additional funding of £150 million per annum for academic years to provide new, substantial primary school sport funding in order to improve the provision of physical education and sport in primary schools. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to schools to be spent on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. All state-maintained schools, academies, middle schools, special schools and pupil referral units which have primary aged pupils will receive the funding.
This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision for PE and sport in schools. We will be held accountable for how we have used the additional funding to support pupils progress and participation in PE and school sport. We are required to publish on-line information about how we have used the additional funding, including details about our sporting provision alongside curriculum details. This will ensure that parents/carers and others are made fully aware of the PE and sporting provision at Corpus Christi Primary School.
AllocationFor the academic year Sept 2024 – August 2025 (based on 326 primary aged pupils) we will receive an amount of £18,620.
We believe in a holistic approach to the development of sport and physical activity for all and encourage collaboration and partnership working to make the best use of resources and enhance PE and sport provision in order to raise participation and achievement for all pupils.
- All children benefit regardless of sporting ability
- Children are given the opportunity to compete in tournaments with other schools
- Staff have access to training opportunities and continued professional development
- Some activities may be subsidised so that pupils do not miss out due to financial constraints.
- We make use of collaborative and partnership working
We evaluate the impact of the Sports Premium funding as part of our normal self-evaluation and provision mapping arrangements. We look at how well we use our Sport Premium to improve the quality and breadth of PE and sporting provision, including increasing participation in PE and sport so that all pupils develop healthy lifestyles and reach the performance levels they are capable of.
Measuring the impact of the activities provided with sports premium funding can be achieved in different ways. We look at progress in PE as well as other areas of development such as self-esteem, confidence and the numbers of pupils involved in sporting activities in and out of school. Assessments are made both formally and informally using our school assessment systems as well as feedback from staff and visitors to the school. We also evaluate the impact of professional development opportunities in improving teaching and learning in PE.
For more general information regarding PE and Sports Premium funding for primary schools, you can read more here on the government website.