PE and Sports Premium

PE and Sport at Roger Ascham: Including Impact of Sports Premium

Our school aim is to encourage children to think for themselves; guide them towards acting in the best interests of us all. We try to ensure that every area of our school’s curriculum helps to achieve this aim, including PE.

Physical Education at Roger Ascham enables all children to develop and apply physical and creative skills alongside a knowledge and understanding of health and fitness to achieve personal progress and personal best. Children will develop their agility, balance, coordination and the fundamental movement and sports skills as well as healthy competition and cooperative learning to lead a healthier and active lifestyle. They will also have the opportunity to achieve and have fun!

Our PE Curriculum will provide all children with:

Two hours of high quality core physical education each week during curriculum time;
An opportunity to attend an extra-curricular club each half term;
Swimming lessons in years 3 and 4 – so they learn to swim before they have the freedom at home of being allowed to ‘play out’;
The knowledge and understanding to lead an active healthier lifestyle;
The opportunity to regularly compete in intra-school competition.

It will provide some children with:

The opportunity to compete in inter-school and intra-school competitions;
Participation in a Young Sports Leader programme;
The opportunity to act as Sports Ambassadors leading and organising competitions and mini sports events;
Access to gifted and talented clubs and programmes in the local area

At Roger Ascham we employ a full-time a specialist PE teacher and sports coach. We also engage with a range of specialist coaches including athletics, team sports and dance.

PE and Sports Premium

This extra funding is being allocated directly to primary schools from the government.

The purpose of the funding is to:

raise teachers’ skills in teaching PE;
involve qualified sports coaches in PE lessons;
improve PE and sports resources in schools;
run sports competitions and increase participation in Schools Games;
support and involve the least active children in sports clubs.

2024/2025

1. Funding Grant
Total amount of grant funding received for academic year 2024 to 2025	£19200
Did your school have any unspent grant funding from the allocation for academic year 2024 to 2025?	No
Did your school carry forward any grant funding from previous years for use in the academic year 2024 to 2025?	No
2. Categories of grant spending
External training courses	£2000
How much has your school spent on internal school based extra-curricular opportunities?	£8050
How much has your school spent on internal sports competitions?	£440
How much has your school spent on internal top-swimming lessons or broadening aquatic opportunities for pupils?	£5017.50
How much has your school spent on internal equipment and resources?	£726
How much has your school spent on internal use of educational platforms and resources?	£1500
Total school spending on internal activities	£15733.5
How much has your school spent on external activities organised by School Games organiser network?	£900
How much has your school spent on external - other inter-school sports competitions?	£3000
Total school spending on external activities	£3900
Total CPD category spend	£2000
Total internal category spend	£15733.5
Total external category spend	£3900
Total spent of PE and sports premium	£21633.5
3. Opportunities in sport
Has your school targeted any spending on providing or improving opportunities in PE, sport and physical activities for pupils with SEND or long-term medical conditions?	Yes
SEND list	Supporting participation in extra-curricular opportunities or competitions, Top-up swimming lessons for pupils requiring additional assistance
Has your school targeted any spending on increasing or improving girls' access to PE lessons or access to extra-curricular sport and physical activities?	Yes
How has this been done?	Supporting participation in extra-curricular opportunities or competitions
Has your school targeted any spending on providing or improving opportunities in sport and physical activities for disadvantaged pupils?	Yes
Confirm how for disadvantaged pupils from the options listed below:	After-school sport and physical activity clubs - free of charge for all pupils
4. Perceived impacts and improvement
What impact has this funding had within your school on increasing all staff's confidence, knowledge and skills in teaching PE and sport?	Positive impact
What impact has this funding had within your school on increasing engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity and sport?	Positive impact
What impact has this funding had within your school on raising the profile of PE and sport across the school to support whole school improvement?	Positive impact
What impact has this funding had within your school on offering a broader and more equal experience of a range of sports and physical activities to all pupils?	Positive impact
What impact has this funding had within your school on increasing participation in competitive sport?	Positive impact
Has your school's PE and sport premium spending achieved any of the following?	An increase in pupils’ attainment in PE, An increase in pupils’ physical activity levels, An increase in the number of pupils participating in school sport, An increase in the number of pupils participating in extra-curricular activities , An increase in pupils’ attainment in swimming and water safety
What impact has your school's spending of this funding had on PE attainment?	Positive impact
What impact has your school's spending of this funding had on increasing teachers' confidence and competence in teaching PE and school sport?	Positive impact
What impact has your school's spending of this funding had on increasing teachers' confidence and competence in teaching PE and school sport?	Positive impact
What impact has your school's spending of this funding had on increasing pupil participation in extra-curricular activities?	Positive impact
5. Sustainability
What impact has your school's spending of this funding had on ensuring that the improvements made are sustainable?	Positive impact
6. Swimming and water safety – figures based upon attainment following Y4 top-up swimming lessons
Does your school have year 6 pupils?	Yes
What percentage of pupils in your current year 6 cohort can swim competently, confidently, and proficiently over a distance of 25 metres?	39
What percentage of pupils in your current year 6 cohort can use a range of strokes effectively (e.g. front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke)?	39
What percentage of pupils in your current year 6 cohort can perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations?	39
What impact has your school's spending of this funding had on swimming and water safety attainment?	Positive impact

2023/2024

In 2023/24, Roger Ascham received just under £20 000 in additional PE Premium funding.

The school already allocates funds for a specialist PE teacher and coach, swimming pool hire and specialist coaching at an annual cost of over £75 000.

Additional funding from the PE premium was spent in the following ways:

PE & Sport Premium Funding Received		£19370
Action and rationale	Impact and intended long-term outcome	Cost Implication

Increase after-school provision through sports clubs run by PE coach in addition to delivery of the curriculum.	Capacity for engaging a greater number of children in sporting activities in a wider range of sports. Target and track participation of identified children.	4 additional hours a week for 32 weeks £2880.
Engage children in organised sports during lunchtimes. Sports coach to lead games during lunchtimes to help focus children’s play.	Develop habits of sporting behaviour and the benefits of an active lifestyle. Improve quality of play at lunchtimes and promote good behaviour.	2.5 hours a week £2137
Top-up swimming sessions in Y4.	To consolidate learning from Y3, enabling a greater number of children to become confident swimmers during the primary phase. For those who do not become competent swimmers, they will become more confident in the water.	£3784
Widening access and opportunity for children to engage in a broader range of activities: Drumba - an alternative regular exercise session that combines music, dance and HIT workouts, developing children’s fitness levels as well as sequencing, rhythmic skills and mobility. Access to indoor climbing sessions for classes. Infinity Circus Skills Training for children in Y1-Y6	These activities provide opportunities for children to be successful in PE and physical activity away from more widely known sports such as football. Wider exposure to a range of activities broadens children’s experience and subsequent interests. Teachers now lead fortnightly half hour Drumba sessions following initial training sessions.	Drumba: £9497 for initial upfront costs including licenses, first year of programme subscriptions and twilight staff training sessions (for all teachers and support staff). Indoor climbing sessions: £2025 Circus Skills: £570
Total expenditure		£20893

Pupils follow an intensive 2 week program in both Year 3 and Year 4 where they swim for an hour each day.

In 2023-24 swimming took place for our current Year 5 pupils. They followed an intensive 2 weeks program where they swam for an hour every day. Last year, 41% could swim at least 25 metres, using a range of strokes and perform safe self-rescue in a variety of situations.

In 2022-23 swimming took place for our current Year 6 pupils. They followed an intensive 2 weeks program where they swam for an hour every day. In 2023, 39% could swim at least 25 metres, using a range of strokes and perform safe self-rescue in a variety of situations.

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