Primary Physical Education and Sport Premium
Primary Physical Education and Sport Premium is a Government initiative that aims to help increase and improve the Physical Education and sporting opportunities for Primary aged children. It was first provided in the 2013/14 academic year and the current government has pledged to continue this funding.
The funding has been allocated to Headteachers and is ring-fenced, meaning that it can only be spent on the provision of PE and sport in schools. They are held accountable for the decisions they make through:
- The performance outcomes of all Primary aged children compared with their peers
- The Ofsted inspection framework, under which inspectors focus on the attainment of pupil groups, in particular in those areas where specific funding has been provided
- The reports that schools are required to publish online for Parents
Here in Educational Diversity we aim to use the funding effectively to ensure that standards of learning and achievement in PE and Sports are raised, with all children, regardless of their background.
Educational Diversity have chosen to use the £2000 Primary Physical Education and Sport Premium towards ensuring that all KS2 pupils receive at least 2 hours of PE per week. This is delivered via the Primary stars programme through Blackpool Football Club – http://www.bfcct.co.uk/health-education/school-sport/.
We also commit to a cohort of our pupils attending 30 minutes of swimming per week, helping to develop a positive attitude towards physical activity and enable pupils to reach key swimming milestones such as the 25m award.
At Educational Diversity we recognise the importance of being able to swim, especially given that Blackpool is a seaside town. As a life-saving skill we encourage all of our children to achieve the swimming National expectation of 25m unaided.
As with every subject in school, we start with a range of swimming abilities and therefore devise our program to meet these needs:
Beginners: Build water confidence and buoyancy followed by the introduction of different strokes.
Intermediate: Introduce different strokes and the techniques that they need to complete 25m.
Developing: Work on their technique, stamina and speed to be more efficient in the pool. Our school based qualified swimming teacher, delivers a high quality swimming teaching programme for the children over two terms. The course will support pupils to:
- swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- use a range of strokes effectively
- perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
Outcomes and impact - In certain circumstances (in this case related to our year 6 swimmers) we will suppress our data. This is usually when there are 5 or fewer pupils or students covered by the measure. We avoid making these figures public to protect individual privacy. We may also suppress data on a case-by-case basis to protect the identity of an individual.