Sports Premium

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Meadows have been involved in many sporting activities:

Gymnastics
Tag Rugby
Netball
Bellboating
Cross-country

Sports Premium Grant:

The government is providing additional funding of £150 million per annum to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. This funding - provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport - will be allocated to primary school headteachers. This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools.

Eligible schools

An allocation for this grant has been calculated using a standardised methodology.

Allocations for the academic year 2025 to 2026 are calculated using the number of pupils in years 1 to 6, as recorded in the January 2025 census, as follows:

schools with 17 or more pupils receive £16,000 plus £10 per pupil
schools with 16 or fewer pupils receive £1,000 per pupil

Where a school’s pupils are not recorded by year group, pupils aged 5 to 10 are deemed eligible.

Purpose of funding

The purpose of the premium is for schools to make additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport for the benefit of all primary-aged pupils to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles.

This means schools must use the premium to:

build capacity and capability within the school and ensure that improvements to the quality of PE, sport and physical activity provision made now are sustainable and will benefit pupils joining the school in future years; and
develop or add to the PE, sport and physical activity that the school provides

Accountability

Schools are held to account over how they spend their additional, ring-fenced funding. Ofsted will strengthen the coverage of PE and sport within the 'Inspectors’ handbook' and supporting guidance so that both schools and inspectors know how sport and PE will be assessed in future as part of the school’s overall provision.

Schools will also be required to include details of their provision of PE and sport on their website, alongside details of their broader curriculum, so that parents can compare sports provision between schools, both within and beyond the school day.

School Sports Premium at Meadows First School

At Meadows First School we intend to use our Sports Premium Grant to assist us with achieving self-sustaining improvement in the quality of PE and sport in primary schools against the 5 key indicators:

The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – kick-starting healthy active lifestyles.
The profile of PE and sport being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement.
Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport.
Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils.
Increased participation in competitive sport.

Our aims to develop PE over the next 3 years include:

To develop gross motor skills (both) in our very youngest children as we observe that children are entering school with ever decreasing gross and fine motor skills.
To continue to upskill staff by providing opportunities for them to teach alongside specialist sports coaches in sports that are requested by children or that staff have less confidence in delivering.
To provide existing staff with resources to help them teach new PE and sport content more effectively, as well as maintaining and replacing existing equipment as necessary
To support and involve the least active children by running or extending school sports and clubs.
To develop staff knowledge of wellbeing activities as part of developing awareness of healthy lifestyles
To develop pupil participation in out of school sport
To increase participation in competitive sport

Two useful links, for you to find extra information on, are:

http://www.yourschoolgames.com/

https://www.allactiveacademy.2015.wordpress.com/