PE and Support Premium

We are extremely proud to announce that we have achieved the School Games Mark GOLD for another year.

SCHOOL GAMES MARK

The School Games Mark is a government led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. Participating in this process allows schools to evaluate their PE provision and assists them in developing an action plan for future progress.

What are the key criteria?

Each School Games Mark application is divided into four sets of questions.

They cover the following basic topics...

Participation - how many young people at your school are being engaged in sporting activity?
Competition - how many different sports are being played and how many competitions are being entered?
Workforce - how many pupils are involved in leadership activities alongside taking part in competitions?
Clubs - how many local links does your school have with clubs or establishments from the area?

Sports Premium.

This is a grant that has been given to all schools by the Government in the wake of the 2012 Olympics in order to raise standards in physical skills and games. It has also been brought into being in order to support more young people in taking part in physical activity. At Severnbanks Primary School we believe in the development of the whole child and that PE plays a vital part in this process. We support healthy living and the sports premium helps us to introduce children to new sports and to become more skilled in the everyday sports. We provide a wide range of activities in school which aim to engage and inspire all our pupils. We are committed to ensuring that our pupils receive at least 2 hours per week of high quality PE.
We know that sports in themselves, do not just deliver physical benefits. They help children to learn to be disciplined, to take turns,to display good sportsmanship and to strive to do their best. Through participating in sporting activities our pupils learn about the importance of key values for life. The social aspects of sport can also often be beneficial to all children and confidence and well-being can develop from taking part in physical activities. PE provides our pupils with a safe environment to form social and moral values in pupils, helping them to learn how to deal with competition; wining and losing and the importance of taking part.However, we must also be mindful that some children do not enjoy physical activity; they may be overweight, poor in their co-ordination or lack confidence and thus they feel alienated from these kinds of activities. We need to provide a variety of opportunities to inspire all of our pupils to be more active.

At Severnbanks Primary School we aim:

for all children to take part in regular and structured physical activity.
for children's core skills and competence in physical activity to grow.
to increase participation in a physical activity both in school and out of school.
to embed the idea that regular exercise is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle.

We use our Sports Premium Funding to help us meet the following Aims of the National Curriculum for Physical Education.

To develop the competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
To increase the level of physical activity for our pupils
To engage in competitive sports and activities
To lead healthy active lifestyles.

Year 6 swimming information July 24
Year 6 completed their swimming assessments

What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres?	70%
What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]?	70%
What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations?	94%
Schools can choose to use the Primary PE and Sport Premium to provide additional provision for swimming but this must be for activity over and above the national curriculum requirements. Have you used it in this way?	yes