Sports Premium

Purpose

The Government introduced the Pupil Premium Grant after the 2012 Olympic Games. This grant is additional to main school funding and seen as a way to help schools address increased sports participation / wellbeing, lifestyle and child obesity. The grant is usually paid directly to schools allowing them to ensure that funding is used to increase participation in sports activities. This year the Government is giving an extra allowance doubling the previous grant to ensure the impact on physical activity in schools is increased and thereby making the nation healthier.

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Total number of pupils on roll year

336

Amount of Sports Grant

19252

Original Budget

18406

How Money is Spent

	2023-24 Budget	2023-24 Actual	Planned 2024-25
Skipping club	500	950	500
PE Hub Sub	400	400	400
PE Resources / new equipment	1200	799	1000
Sports Coach + training including supporting whole school events	2000	1995	2000
Wise up activates for pupils, (outdoor learning)	1000	0	N/A
Forest School – Outdoor education	2000	1876	2000
Club subsidy + Admin costs	500	800	1000
School Journey Subsidy – outdoor and adventurous activities	500	0	0
Playground Equipment (OPAL resources)	2500	1500	25000
SLA – London Borough of Harrow support	1500	1500	1500
Transport to Sports activities	750	300	500
Sports medals / trophies	150	125	150
Curriculum Support	1000
Sports Visitors	1000	0	1000
Borough Sports days	0	1560	1800
School Sports Day	0	435	500
Change 4 Life	0	2240	2400
G + T group	0	2240	2400
Sports Coach at Lunchtime	0	1980	2100
Total	21100	18700	44250

PE and Games at Kenmore Park

Year 3 and 4 classes are allocated at least two sessions of PE and games each week with the exception of Year 5 pupils who attend a regular swimming session for the full academic year and one PE / Games lesson,. Year 6 children have one formal PE / Games lesson throughout the year and would have attended a three day residential in which they complete a series of outdoor and adventurous activities.The school offers a variety of lunchtime and after school clubs with a sports bias. These included multisports, football, dodgeball, cricket, Gifted and talented group, Change4life, and dance. Some of these activities are specially developed to support children who can find playtime and the playground difficult. We did participate in local competitions with other schools, which included football tournaments and athletics.

We also have very good links with our local secondary school, Park High, who not only support our activities but also allows their pupils to fulfil their GCSE sports leadership programme. We also regularly run a whole school competitive sports day to which parents are invited which allows us to promote healthy schools agenda with every family.

These children also have access to our sporting facilities. We run holiday clubs and the children that attend these have access to the play / sports equipment in the school. There is often a ‘sports’ themed holiday club run by our sports coach.

What has sports premium allowed us to do

Sports premium has allowed us to have a more strategic approach to PE and Games throughout the school. This has resulted in increased pupil participation and embed high quality provision and obtain the bronze award for school games last year. It also allows us to have innovative sports provision, e.g. Change4life club,. This stimulates the interest of pupils. In our Change4life club older Year 6 pupils are encouraged to become mentors to the younger pupils and to not only encourage them in the session, but also in the playground. We advertise and use some of the children as ‘sports leaders’ in the playground. They encourage other children to become more active and take part in physical activity. This will be reinstated post covid.

Previously we have only been able to afford Year 5 pupils to attend swimming lessons for one term. Since the introduction of Sports premium we have been able to increase the number of sessions that pupils attend so that they are able to attend for the full academic year. The impact of this is that many more pupils are achieving the national curriculum standard of 25 metres unaided swimming.

We have invested in taking the children to ‘Forest School’. All the Year 3 children go on this trip as well as selected pupils from other year groups who go once a week for a six-week period. This meets part of the outdoor and adventurous PE curriculum. We will continue with this provision

Impact

Pre-Covid - over 150 pupils take part in additional activities both at lunchtime and after school. Many of these pupils are attracted to the innovative provision. For example, we have introduced ‘Disco Club’, at lunchtime to encourage active play. The only thing that limits more clubs taking place is the physical space of the school grounds.

Without Sports premium we could not meet the needs of G + T pupils through additional PE / Games sessions.

We are currently investigating if it is possible to team up with some of the private schools in the area so that our pupils may have access to their facilities.

All pupils take part in PE / Games activities and any pupils who have a disability are catered for in those sessions. The school's ethos is very inclusive and the school will provide extra provision for any pupils that need extra support.

PE is mainly taken by specialist staff who are up to date with their current practice through a range of professional training.

Cross-curricular Links

Wherever possible we try to combine our PE / Games curriculum with other aspects of the curriculum so that the children’s learning is embedded through a range of learning techniques. For example, Year 5 children do a topic called ‘Fit for life’. In the science part of this topic the children learn about how to keep healthy, how the major organs of the body work etc. In PE / Games, the children complete a class marathon over a few weeks showing how exercise can help keep the body healthy.

Swimming

We were unable to complete final assessments in swimming this year because the pool we use, (Harrow Leisure Centre), was shut down unexpectedly in the beginning of the summer term due to serious and dangerous roof defects. The statements below are a guestimate rather than actual numbers:-

• Number of pupils in current Yr 6 who were also in Yr 5: 76
• Number of pupils who swim 25 metres: 23
• Number of pupils who can use a range of stokes effectively: 23
• Number of pupils who can perform safe self-rescue in water: 48

A number of factors have direct impact on the figures above:

1. This cohort has had the opportunity to attend swimming lessons every week . This is a result of the school allocating additional resources to swimming (extra cost of staffing/coaches) .
2. In all previous years, pupils had only attended swimming for one term. It was felt this was ineffective in terms of the pupils attaining the targets above and that before Sports Premium funding; the school was not able to extend these swimming slots.
3. Very few pupils have access to swimming beyond the school curriculum.

Achievements

• Obtained the Gold Award for School Games, (externally assessed).
• London Bees Cup festival - Girls 6 a-side football
• Sportshall athletics - 10th out of 15 schools
• Athletics competition at the Bannister Stadium (good individual results)
• Barnet Cup festival - Boys 6-aside football
• Many inter school football competitions
• Street Tag for staff, children and parents alike
• Training for Sports Coach - outdoor and adventurous activities
• Cluster PE cords meetings
• Motivational athletes coming in - Kidz Fit