Sport
At Western we are able to make good use of our extensive ground to provide a wide variety of sports opportunities for our pupils. Alongside our indoor and outdoor PE lessons, there are a range of extra curricular sports clubs run by staff, parents and external providers. These include football, cricket, netball, lacrosse, karate and street dance. Our teams compete with other local schools and all pupils participate in inter-house sports competitions.
PE and Sports Premium for Primary Schools
The DfE vision is for all pupils leaving primary school to be physically literate and with the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport. Their objective for this funding is to achieve selfsustaining improvement in the quality of PE and sport in primary schools.
Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but have the freedom to choose how they do this.
There are five key indicators where schools should expect to see improvement:
1. Increase confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
2. The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines recommend that primary school pupils undertake at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day in school
3. The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement
4. Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils.
5. Increased participation in competitive sport.
At Western CE Primary School, we aim to:
- Improve the PE skills and stamina of pupils to improve personal fitness
- Improve the teaching and learning of all aspects of PE by provide existing staff with training or resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively
- Improve the resources and equipment used at Western
- Offer a wider range of opportunities in PE and extra-curricular clubs
- Introduce new sports or activities and encourage more pupils to take up sport
- Participate in sport competitions
- Run sports activities with other schools
- Develop the use of our school grounds for outdoor and adventurous PE
- Develop links with other schools, community groups and agencies
Sports premium funding
In the 2023/24 academic year, the grant received was £19,540.
You can see details of how we spent the funding here:
Evaluation of impact on children in school
- All pupils have increased opportunities to use new equipment and are developing skills of coordination, balance, strength, flexibility, risk taking and imagination – the new equipment is suitable for the whole primary range and ensures that the oldest pupils are challenged and catered for as well as the youngest. Additionally it is used by many pupils after school during our extended provision – Tea Club
- Games monitors able to safely access equipment and resources
- Children exposed to a greater range of sports including tag rugby and golf
- All KS2 pupils able to participate in a competition eg cross-country
- Improved participation and involvement with Sports day as a result of the new and improved equipment
- Staff skills developed through co-teaching enabling greater depth and improved quality of provision in games sessions
- New resources purchased to facilitate high quality learning
- Our greatest number of children representing their school and district in the Hampshire Games