What is a Sports Premium?

The government provides ring-fenced funding, jointly with the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, and Media and Sport, to help improve the provision of Physical Education and Sport in Primary Schools. This funding was introduced for the academic 2013-2014 year and has continued to date.

We use this money to improve confidence amongst staff in the delivery and assessment of high-quality PE lessons across the school, provide a wider range of sports and activities to enhance engagement, organise and participate in competitive sport both in and out of school, and ensure children have a very good understanding of healthy lifestyles. We feel this is the most effective and efficient way for the funding to have a lifelong and positive effect on future learning and physical development of children within our school.

Vision for the Primary PE and Sport Premium

All pupils will leave Holy Trinity being physically literate and have the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy, active lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.

To achieve self-sustaining improvement in the quality of PE and Sport in school, it is important to emphasise that the focus of spending must lead to a long lasting impact against the vision that will live on well beyond the Primary PE and Sport Premium funding.

The funding has been provided to ensure impact against the following objectives and it is expected that schools will see an improvement against the following 5 key indicators:

1. The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – kick-starting healthy active lifestyles.

2. The profile of PE and Sport being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement.

3. Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport.

4. Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils.

5. Increased participation in competitive sport.

Schools are required to publish details of how they spend this funding and the effect it has had on pupils’ PE and sport participation and attainment. This can be found below.