Sports Premium

The government is providing funding of £320 million per year to provide new and substantial primary school sport funding. The funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children.

Schools with 16 or fewer pupils will receive £1,000 per pupil. Whereas, schools with 17 or more pupils will receive £16,000 plus an extra £10 per pupil each year. Here at St Julians  Church School that will mean around £16,800 per year. The money can only be spent on sport and PE provision in school as well as facilitating an improvement in children and young people’s  mental health by increasing and improving access to, and use of, facilities for physical activity, healthy eating, mental health and wellbeing and medical conditions. This could include kitchens, dining facilities, changing rooms, playgrounds and sports facilities.​S

Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this. St Julian’s Church School is choosing to invest the funding in the following ways:

• hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work with primary teachers when teaching PE

• supporting and engaging children through offering after school clubs with various physical focuses

• paying for professional development opportunities for teachers in PE and sport

• providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE and sport

• running sport competitions / increasing pupils’ participation in the School Games / taking part in public performances

• buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE and sport

• offering PE opportunities off site enabling children to access equipment that is not typically accessible in school

• update school sports equipment

• improve children’s recreational opportunities and play at lunchtimes including outdoor learning opportunities

Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport on offer. We aim to

• develop or add to the PE and sport activities that our school already offers
• build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

Accountability

There are 5 key indicators that schools should expect to see improvement across:

• the engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – the Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that all children and young people aged 5 to 18 engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, of which 30 minutes should be in school
• the profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement
• increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
• broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
• increased participation in competitive sport

Ofsted will strengthen the coverage of PE and sport within the ‘Inspectors’ handbook’ and supporting guidance so that both schools and inspectors know how sport and PE will be assessed in future as part of the school’s overall provision.

St Julian’s PE 2023/2024 Expenditure Report