Sports Funding
Please read the information below which gives details of our PE and Sport Premium Grant and how we allocate the funding.
Physical education is tailored to the needs of our children; an important aspect of this includes a well-rounded understanding of how they can keep themselves healthy, through a balanced diet and partaking in regular exercise to care for their bodies and remain fit.
PE and Sports Grant Premium
The government has pledged £320 million per annum to support PE and school sport in primary schools. This funding is provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport. Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport on offer. The premium should be used to develop or add to the PE and sport activities in school and to build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years.
There are 5 key indicators that schools should expect to see improvement in the following:
- The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity
- The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement
- There is increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
- A broader experience of a range of sports and activities is offered to all pupils and
- Increased participation in competitive sport.
Physical Education at Dunchurch C of E Infant School and Nursery
We believe a high-quality PE curriculum is pivotal to ensure that it inspires all children to gain a love for physical activity and sport, therefore this will create the desire to learn and progress within PE. We aim to provide our children with a positive experience of physical activity, a strong understanding of health and well-being and opportunities to take part in competitive sport. This is achieved through a wide range of sports and physical activity as part of our carefully planned PE curriculum and a growing extra-curricular club program. We believe that a combination of high quality physical education, active participation in clubs and carefully managed and modelled competitive sport can benefit every child. It improves children’s health and fitness, builds character and confidence, embeds values such as fairness, teamwork and respect and ultimately develops essential life skills.
The popularity and effectiveness of PE at Dunchurch C of E Infant School and Nursery continues to grow. Every child in school is involved in two curriculum PE lessons each week covering a range of physical activities, games and skills. This is supplemented by our after school club program.
Within the curriculum P.E. there is a balance of different areas of physical development including a variety of games, multi skills, gymnastics and dance. In Key Stage 1, teaching focuses on developing fundamental movement skills, becoming increasingly agile, improving balance and co-ordination and working with others. Children also start to develop key physical movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching. These skills and are then developed as the children move up to our Junior school and on to other schools for KS2, where children learn how to use, link and apply them to make action sequences and complete specific tasks. Children also continue to compare and evaluate their own and others’ performances.
Sport Premium Funding
At Dunchurch C of E Infant School & Nursery we have carefully planned how we use this money and details can be viewed using the link below:
