St Mary's Catholic Primary School appreciates the contribution of PE to the health and well-being of its children. We also acknowledge that a broad, balanced, high quality curriculum and extra-curricular activities have a positive impact on concentration, attitude and achievement.
The school is committed to ensuring that all pupils receive a minimum of 2 hours of PE per week, delivered by well-trained and enthusiastic coaches and teachers. The Sport Premium funding is allowing us to develop a sustainable improvement in teacher confidence and a new curriculum based on developing children’s physical literacy skills. Regular staff training opportunities will be provided for teachers and teaching assistants (TAs) to keep them up to date with new initiatives.
This year we will be organising inter house sports competitions at the end of each half term. At the end of the school year the house that has won the most points will be presented with winners shield and staff will organise an end of year celebration for the members of that house.
We run a Sports Week every year including competitive races for KS1 and KS2. Epic, Teachers and TAs provide a wide range of after school sports clubs, both for team and individual sports.
In March 2013 the government announced that it was to provide additional funding of £150 million per annum to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools in England - The Primary PE & Sport Premium.
This funding - provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport - is allocated to primary school head teachers. The funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools.
Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they have the freedom to choose how they do this.
The four objectives of the Primary PE and Sport Premium funding are:
Appointment of a sport’s coach and PE lead to work with staff on developing an effective curriculum in light of the needs of the new curriculum;
All Extra Curricular clubs paid for in Autumn term;
This year we have appointed sports ambassadors from each class of Year 3 to Year 6. Their roles were selected due to their exceptional commitment to sport in school.
A Young Ambassador’s role is to: