PE and Sports Funding
All maintained schools have benefited from additional funding in the form of the PE & Sports Grant. Our allocation for the Academic Year 2016/17 was £9,800 and will be funded over two financial years (2015/16 & 2016/17). In 2015/16 we received £9,820 This funding had the following objectives.
- To increase pupil participation in competitive sport (inter and intra school).
- To improve the teaching and progression of pupils in outdoor games.
- To ensure new staff have a clear understanding of how to teach high quality PE
Impact
A full evaluation of the impact can be found here.
In 2016/17
We will be embedding the development of teachers skills in teaching games with year 2 of a focus on football, basketball, Hockey, Tennis, Cricket & Athletics. This will be a two year programme of development.
In 2017/18 we will be moving the focus onto the teaching of gymnastics.