Being The Best We Can Be
PE Funding Statement
At West Rise we aspire to provide an outstanding PE experience for our children through providing expert professional coaches as role models, and through promoting a 'can do' attitude. Through our planned PE programmes, every child is encouraged to see themselves as a healthy individual, able to make healthy life choices and even be a future sports superstar!
During 2018-19 we received £17,421.00 in funding which we used as follows:
SPORTS FUNDING
At West Rise we believe that PE is very important for children’s health, wellbeing and whole development. As such, we aim for our PE provision to encourage children into patterns of healthy living and exercise. Sports funding at West Rise is used to support this aim and the careful allocation of funding is key to developing physical confidence and a greater sense of physical capability. Through providing opportunities to compete in sport and other physical activities children will be able to understand the values of respect for self, for others as well as build resilience and fairness.
We use our Sports funding to provide an outstanding and varied PE experience for our children and part of this is to enable expert professional coaching and mentoring with professionals on site who stand as both role models and as physical inspiration for the children. Through our planned PE programmes, every child is encouraged to see themselves as a healthy individual, able to make healthy life choices and even be a future sports superstar! During 2024-25 we received £17,790 for the Infant school and £19,540 for the Junior School. On 1st May the two schools amalgamated making West Rise Primary School. The funding has been spent as follows:
EYFS / KS1
| EXPENDITURE | Cost |
|---|---|
| Subscriptions and resources | £520 |
| Lunchtime Healthy Activity Leadership | £3,786 |
| TA in charge of promoting physical outdoor learning in the EYFS | £3,852 |
| Jump Ahead Physical Programme | £3,915 |
| Sportitude Lunch Club | £6,600 |
| £18,673 | |
Carry forward into 2024-25 - £0
PE Funding Impact Report 2024-25 EYFS/KS1
Lunchtime Healthy Activity Leadership - the impact of this expenditure has been that there has been a dedicated member of staff at lunchtime encouraging children to be active, including promoting games, skipping and goal shooting competitions as well as modelling how to use playground markings, develop team games (football and basketball) as well as leading fun time trials! Benefits include more children are being active, as well as the identification and targeting of individuals who choose not to be physically active at lunchtime. We are also creating a safer and more physically focussed play environment. Evidence - Observations of lunchtime play, child responses, children developing their own games too.
TA in charge of promoting physical outdoor learning in the EYFS
Physical Development is one of the Prime Areas of Learning in the EYFS and use of funding has increased focus to this area by having a key adult responsible for physical outdoor learning – PE beyond PE lessons. The impact of this has been that more physical activities are set up each day and children are actively engaging in these. Observations have shown that all children in the EYFS cohort progress well towards the Physical area of learning at least expected standard, with many showing particular Evidence - Data, observations, planning.
Jump Ahead Physical Programme - Jump Ahead has had a big impact on individual children’s physical development and the PE funding has enabled us to be able to include more children in the Jump Ahead Programme. This is turn has led to improved co-ordination and cognitive functioning of children involved. Evidence - Pupil voice, lesson observations, teacher feedback, Jump Ahead trackers.
Sportitude Lunch Club - the impact of this expenditure is far reaching as many children benefit from the coaching and modelling provided by Premier Sports. Coaches report that there is a steady increase in children taking part in structured fitness activities as provided by the coach. Evidence - Tracking from Sportitude, feedback from staff, children and some parents too.
Further Impact of PE funding:
- Pupil Voice shows that children have a love of PE and are engaging fully in lessons with the Sports Coaches (Evidence: Pupil voice +drop in observations by SLT and PE leader)
- Teachers feel more confident in delivering lessons that include fitness and have a broader experience (Evidence: Staff meeting discussions)
- Teachers have been able to make more accurate and fully developed assessments since working with the Sports coach (Evidence: Assessment records)
- Most children are at Age related expectation for PE or above (Evidence: Assessment records)
- PE Funding 2024/25 Predicted Income £17,790 to be spent as above in order to maintain current provision.
KS2
| Activity or resource | Cost |
|---|---|
| Top up swimming/self rescue | £4,979 |
| P.E. Subscriptions/memberships | £515 |
| Maintenance | £236 |
| Equipment | £2,527 |
| Whole School Workshops | £1,198 |
| Sports Clubs | £9,000 |
| Sports competitions | £160 |
PE Funding Impact Report 2024-25 KS2
Swimming and Self-Rescue Skills - at West Rise Junior School all children take part in swimming lessons in Year 4, with catch up lessons in Year 5. Through these they develop water confidence, water safety skills, the distance they can swim and the range of strokes they can use.
These skills we believe are especially important as we live in a seaside town with many lakes. Our aim is that children can swim at least 25 metres (one regular swimming pool length) by the time they leave at the end of Year 6.
- 58% can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres (national average is 52%)
- 58% use a range of strokes effectively – for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke (national average is 56%)
- 80% perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations (national average is 56%) - our results improved in this after I asked the swimming teachers to include more self rescue and they now do in every lesson such as teaching them how to float, tread water, learning how to jump in and keep their head above water.
Sustainability - to ensure sustainability we employed a football coach to run a lunch club each day. Several of our MDSAs work alongside the coach to ensure they can lead the club if coaching is no longer available. With a coach and MDSA it does mean more children can be part of the lunchtime sessions.
Opportunities – Different groups of Pupil Premium children took part in cross school competitive events such as handball, football, hockey and a dance competition. Many of these opportunities were subsidised or funded to make participation possible. We have also provided a large part of the school (4 year groups) with the opportunity to play golf as this is not part of our PE provision. We have taken football teams to the Oval stadium to experience playing on a professional pitch as well as taking part in various other tournaments locally.
Impact – the introduction of a girls only lunchtime football club once a week saw more girls showing an interest in the sport and enabled us to run an after school team which then took part in fortnightly matches against local schools.
