The PE and Sport Grant funding, which is in an addition to main school funding, is allocated by the Department for Education to improve the quality of PE and sporting activities offered to pupils.
Schools with 17 or more eligible pupils receive £16,000 and an additional payment of £10 per pupil as recorded in the annual schools census in January 2020. The total amount of Sports Premium Funding for this academic year(2024/25) is £17,500.
Our aim as a school is to ensure that we continue to make work towards creating an improved and sustainable PE curriculum. This has been achieved by providing all teachers in school with CPD to ensure that they feel confident and supported in the delivery of their own PE sessions in school. We also have a robust scheme of work that has been purchased to support teachers in delivering high quality lessons and a good assessment criteria for PE.
All of our Key Stage Two children benefit from swimming lessons at our local swimming pool at the Ellesmere Port Sports Village. Children attend lessons on a Friday afternoon and these are delivered by training swimming instructors at the centre. As we recognise the importance of being able to swim, children who can not swim unaided by the end of their year groups sessions attend additional swimming lessons.