What is the PE and sports premium?

Although the Olympics may be a distant memory, the legacy of London 2012 continues. To help fund Olympians of the future all primary schools received additional PE funding each academic year. For the academic year 2019/20, Medstead received £7,412.00.

Below is a joint statement from the Department for Education and the Department for Culture, Media & Sport about the PE and sports premium:

“We are spending over £450 million on improving physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. We will allocate this extra funding directly to primary headteachers.”

“Schools can choose how they use the funding, for example to:

• hire specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work with primary teachers during PE lesson
• support and involve the least active children by running after-school sports clubs and holiday clubs, e.g. the Change4Life clubs
• provide resources and training courses in PE and sport for teachers
• run sport competitions or increase pupils’ participation in the School Games
• run sports activities with other schools

How the money is used?

Our aim at Medstead is to “develop children’s physical literacy to create a love of movement”. To do this we aim to; increase our children’s engagement in regular activity, raise the profile of sport and physical activity throughout the school and community, improve staff confidence and knowledge of physical activity, offer a broad range of activities to allow all children to succeed, and develop more opportunities for all children to participate in competitive sports.    

The majority of our sports premium is used through the Alton Sports Partnership. The role of this partnership is to increase the confidence of teaching staff and resources available to them, develop new planning and curriculum opportunities in sport and PE

and further develop the extra-curricular timetable to give all children the chance to be active after school. To date nine new sporting areas have been added through this partnership; Cross Country Running, Orienteering, Trampolining, a Swimming Gala, Dodgeball, Table Tennis, Sportshall Athletics, Tri Golf and Rounders. We feel this method provides excellent training for our school to leave a lasting legacy of PE. Through these areas the school has targeted those children who have a need to develop there participation in physical and sporting opportunities.

We have also invested in a significant amount of new PE equipment. From wall bars in the hall to new netball posts outside and an orienteering course around the school grounds, we have added a wide variety of equipment to allow all children to experience a greater range of activities in physical education.

Finally we are looking to find ways to improve the health of members of our school community. One way we are trying to do this is with more “active breaks” during the school day. We have already started the Golden Mile and will look to develop this and other ideas further over the next few years.

During the school year 2019/20 the school's allocated grant (£17,786) was spent on:

• The employment of a Specialist PE Teacher
• Providing cover to release teachers for professional development in PE/Sport
• Resources and sports equipment to improve PE teaching in the school
• Swimming Gala
• Additional swim coach
• Updating the PE shed and storage facilities for PE
• Attending the Hampshire PE conference
• Administration costs
• Sports Day
• Forest school

Impact:

• Increased variety of sporting events in a wider variety of locations
• Teachers have continued to improve teaching practise and confidence through courses and working with Alton Schools Sports Partnership PE teacher
• Children have more active break times using the new rota and equipment available
• Sports Captains in Year 6 have been trained as ‘Play Leader’ to lead games and activities at break times
• More lessons are taking place outside through the Forest School giving children a more active curriculum
• Every year group now has at least half termly sessions in the Forest School 
• Year R and 1 have 4 sessions a week in the Forest School
• Swimming progress is very good across the school (three swimming coaches were provided for swimming lessons to allow all children to make good progress over 10 weeks of lessons)
• Six children who attended Trampolining sessions went on to join Trampolining clubs
• We had additional teams in Dodgeball, Girls Football and Boys Football this year
• Children experienced Ultimate Frisbee for the first time this year and finished runners up at the inaugural competition
• A significant number of children took part in an extra-curricular club or competition (provided by the school)
• A significant number of children also took part in a regular extra-curricular club (run by the school or external providers)
• Over 180 children took part in extra-curricular sporting events (provided by the Alton Schools Sports Partnership) ranging from Football Tournaments, to Swimming Galas, and Cross Country Running.

Medstead PE and Sports Premium Key Indicators:

Key indicator 1: The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that primary school children undertake at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day in school

Key indicator 2: The profile of PESSPA (Physical Education, School Sport and Physical Activity) being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement

Key indicator 3: Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport

*yearly cost for the Alton Schools Sports Partnership

Key indicator 4: Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils

*yearly cost for the Alton Schools Sports Partnership

Key indicator 5: Increased participation in competitive sport

*yearly cost for the Alton Schools Sports Partnership

Meeting national curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety