At St Ignatius, we recognise the contribution of PE to the health and well-being of the children. We believe that an innovative, varied PE curriculum and extra-curricular opportunities have a positive influence on the concentration, attitude and academic achievement of all our children.

Our Primary School Sport’s Funding will enable us to continue and extend our provision through employing additional sports professionals, entering into more competitive sports competitions and training our staff to deliver in-house quality PE sessions.

Swimming - We have been catching up all of our students in the junior classes since the pandemic. In 2023/24 Year 4, 5 and 6 have been swimming. In the next academic year year 3 and 4 will go.  The number of year 6 students that can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance, use a range of strokes effectively and perform safe self-rescue in different water based situations is 22%. Most of the other children learnt to swim without armbands and made great progress in both confidence and ability during the sessions. 

Primary School’s Sports Funding

What is the Sports Premium?

The government has provided funding of £320 million per annum to provide 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. Each school will receive £16,000 plus an extra £10 per pupil each year for the next two years. The money can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools. Here at school we aim to make the sporting improvements (gained through the sports premium grant) sustainable through improving the skill set off staff by high quality CPD; the development of a sports apprentice to model and disperse sporting skills throughout lessons and playtimes; rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of services bought into/ collaborations joined and closely monitor the uptake and impact of sports activities on the positive well-being of the children.

Purpose of the funding

Schools will have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.

Possible uses of the funding include:

• Hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE
• New or additional after school sports clubs
• Paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport
• Providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport
• Running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games
• Buying quality assured professional development modules or material for PE/sport
• Providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and residential visits

 
Click this link to see how we have spent our allocation: