The School Games Mark continues to reward schools for their commitment to and development of competition, school sport and physical education. The following criteria helped to assess school across BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD levels of the award. In order to achieve any level of the School Games Mark, schools must meet the following prerequisite.
During the academic year, schools needed to have:
Participation
Competition
What is PE and Sports Funding?
The Government has provided funding for academic years 2013/2014, 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 to provide new, substantial primary school sports funding. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, and 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.
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 for the funding include:
How will we be spending the PE and Sports Funding?
We believe all children should benefit from the funding regardless of sporting ability; that children should be given the opportunity to complete in advanced tournaments and that staff should have access to training opportunities and continued professional development.
Some of the funding will be used to purchase new equipment, some to bring coaches into school to introduce new sports and some funding will be used to improve confidence amongst staff in the delivery of high quality PE lessons across the school. We feel that this is the most effective and efficient way for the funding to have a long lasting and positive effect on future learning and physical development of children within our school.
The table below shows how we spent our 2016/17 allocation
Breakdown of Funding |
Impact |
Amount Spent |
Specialist Sport Teacher |
Coaches came into the school; teachers observed and participated in the sessions, thus developing their own skills so that they could then teach this area themselves, once the coach had completed their course of teaching. Not only did the children benefit from being taught by a specialist coach but our own staff were developed through sharing good practice and assisting in the PE lessons. |
£4380 |
To enable attendance at Family PE network |
This facilitated the joining of a partnership with other local primary schools within our family, allowing us to access support and training and also enabling pupils to access competitions across the family of schools. |
£85 |
Equipment |
Following a PE audit, we invested in new PE equipment to ensure quality lesson can be delivered. |
£142.00 |
Lunch time and afterschool Clubs |
To provide sports coaches to come and deliver lunchtime and afterschool clubs. |
£3793 |
Total Spend |
|
£8400 |
The table below shows the proposed spending of the 2017/2018 sports funding
Area for Development |
Impact |
Expected Cost |
Specialist Sport Teachers |
Coaches come into the school; teachers observe and participate in the sessions, thus continuing to develop their own skills so that they could then teach this area themselves, once the coach had completed their course of teaching. |
£5580 |
To enable attendance at Family PE network |
To facilitate the joining of a partnership with other local primary schools within our family, allowing us to access support and training and also enabling pupils to access competitions across the family of schools. |
£150 |
Equipment |
To buy new equipment to enable the delivery of high quality PE lessons |
£4000 |
Lunch time and after school Clubs |
To provide sports coaches to come and deliver lunchtime and after school clubs. |
£2500 |
Young leaders training |
To train KS2 children to become peer leaders so that can they can deliver a range of engaging activities to pupils at lunch and play times. |
£520
|
Gymnastics Event | To allow children to access new sport and experience coaches to increase their participation in out of school clubs. | £1400 |
Swimming |
For additional swimming sessions |
£700 |
Staff professional development in PE |
Cover to release teachers for professional development |
£800 |
Transport to various events |
To provide transport to events so that children can compete in a range of events including training and competitions. |
£1200 |
Total Spend |
|
£16850 |
Sustainability
Our staff work alongside our bought-in PE specialists and at swimming sessions so that their own skills are developed. This helps to ensure that the impact of the spending now will continue in to the future. Staff attend CPD sessions to up-skill their own learning, which again helps to secure good PE teaching in to the future.