Sports Premium

Sports Premium at Warwick Bridge School 2023-24

The Sport Premium report is available to read by clicking on the following link:

WBS Sports Report 2023-24

It is also available to download at the bottom of this page.

About the PE and Sport Premium

All children and young people should live healthy active lives. The UK Chief Medical Officers recommend that all children and young people should take part in moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity for at least 60 minutes every day, with the recommendation for disabled children and young people being 20 minutes of physical activity per day.

It is important that schools are supporting children and young people to achieve this aim. This is particularly true of primary schools where the foundations of positive and enjoyable participation in regular physical activity are embedded.

The Department for Education (DfE) wants all children to have equal access to high-quality PE provision and opportunities to experience and participate in a wide range of sports and physical activities. Schools should aim to provide high-quality PE and sport for at least 2 hours a week, complemented by a wide range of extracurricular sport and competitive opportunities. By providing this it can help improve children’s health and wellbeing, personal development as well as academic attainment.  

Schools should use the PE and sport premium funding to support children to meet 60 active minutes and achieve the above aims. This funding must not be used for core-type school activities. Schools should use it to:  

-make additional and sustainable improvements to the PE, sport and physical activity they provide
-provide or improve equal access to sport for boys and girls
-ensure teachers have the relevant skills and knowledge to confidently teach PE in a structured way, prioritising continued professional development (CPD) and -training where needed
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For the year 2024 to 2025, the amounts payable will be:

-schools with 16 or fewer eligible pupils will receive £1,000 per pupil
-schools with 17 or more eligible pupils will receive £16,000 and an additional payment of £10 per pupil

Any use of the PE and sport premium must be in accordance with the terms outlined in the conditions of grant document. This means schools must use the PE and sport premium to:

-build capacity and capability in the school and make sure that improvements made to the quality of PE, sport and physical activity provision now are sustainable and will benefit pupils joining the school in future
-develop or add to the PE, sport and physical activity that the school provides

Aim at Warwick Bridge School

 
We want to make the most effective use of the premium. To best achieve this, our spending will focus on making improvements in 5 key areas, to assist in:  

-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

Schools can use the PE and sport premium to:

-fund transport costs to top-up swimming sessions
-participate in competitive events (either during or outside the school day)
-travel to extra-curricular opportunities to enable children access to other sporting activities or specialist sport instruction

The school's end of year report must also contain details on the percentage of pupils in year 6 who have met the national curriculum requirement to:

-swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
-use a range of strokes effectively – for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke
-perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

The national curriculum outlines that schools must provide swimming and water safety in key stage 1 or key stage 2. Pupils must be taught to: 

-swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
-use a range of strokes effectively (for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke)
-perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations