Sports Premium Funding – 2016-2017

• All children understand importance of correct preparation before sessions and can explain why they wear certain clothes for certain activities and why we tie hair, remove earrings etc
• We rarely have children saying they don’t want to do PE and those who cannot take part enjoy being involved with scoring and session management.
• The older children are capable of working together to create, organise and manage their own mini activities with scoring and rules.
• They can very quickly set-up and put away activities, taking responsibility for their own equipment and helping others.
• The Heron Park children have become more hardy recently . It is now more likely that they will not want to go and get patched up after an injury because they want to keep playing. “I don’t want to let my team down” is a common statement.
• I am told by the lunchtime staff that the children clearly have a greater understanding of correct and safe use of equipment and spend more time using said equipment and facilities correctly because they now know how to. It has been noted that some children who had previously been under achievers at sport and had a poor mental relationship with it have come to enjoy the sessions as much as any other pupils.
• Our method of short bursts of different activities mean the children have exposure to a greater variety of sports which not only helps their skill levels but has lead to some children joining outside of school clubs in sports they were not previously aware of.
• The children’s core skills have improved-they are more co-ordinated and agile,  have developed tactical awareness and some basic anatomical and physiological understanding
• Our ASCs regularly attract 15-25 attendees and Climb & Jump club is always at capacity of 35 children with a waiting list.
• The vast majority of children now see themselves as part of a team and understand how breaking rules and slowing sessions down effects everyone and is disrespectful to the rest of the group and the adult(s).
• The pupils accept that sport involves a combination of luck, teamwork, individual brilliance, mistakes, bad refereeing decisions to name a few .They can accept defeat and be gracious winners, abide by the referee’s decision at all times and appreciate that without the other team(s) there wouldn’t be a match at all so thank them for a good game.

In addition to Sportitude, we are also putting in place a lunch-time football club for children to enjoy twice a week, and we have an athletics after-school club scheduled to take place after the Easter holidays.

We have used £8,052 of the funding so far, and provision of PE will continue to the same level until the end of the academic year.  This will mean that all the Sports Premium Funding will be spent this academic year and the shortfall will be met through the school budget.  PE also continues to be taught my classroom teachers in addition to the expert provision by Mr Griffiths.