Sports Premium

Sports Premium At Riversides School

PRIMARY SPORTS FUNDING 2022/23

At Riversides School, we pride ourselves on promoting healthy lifestyles through the taught curriculum, extra-curricular activities and participation in sports festivals and inter and intra competitions. Our school vision is to create a physical education curriculum that motivates, enthuses and develops every child to become a lifelong learner and participator.

We aim to give opportunities for all pupils to develop their physical, leadership and coaching skills. As a school we want to create a buzz about physical activities where every child feels confident and ready to participate.

*Primary Support Premium – Since September 2013 every primary school received £8000 funding plus £5 per pupil aged 5 and over on roll to help raise and develop the delivery of high quality PE in school.

*The Purpose of this Funding – We are obliged to spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE, sport and outdoor learning, and we have the freedom to choose how we do this.

At Riversides School we believe in the importance of developing pupils’ physical competence and confidence across a wide range of activities. Staff try to ensure PE is delivered to the pupils in an engaging / inspiring way.

The school has worked hard to develop our Physical Education through curriculum time. The school currently provides a minimum of 2 hours of PE every week throughout Key Stage 2 and 3, which is often boosted by the amount of outdoor learning that our pupils receive.  In Key Stage 4 we are also working towards a qualification in ‘Sports Studies’ and the pupils already do Duke of Edinburgh.

An example of some of the activities Riversides School currently offers are listed below.

Sports include gymnastics / dance / swimming and games such as: –

*Football     *Hockey     *Rugby     *Lacrosse     *Cricket     *Dodgeball     *Table Tennis     *Badminton     *Tennis     *Rounders     *Baseball     *Basketball     *Netball     *Golf     *Athletics (track and field)

We have also recently set up a ‘HOUSES’ system to develop this adventurous, competitive spirit further.  The three houses are – Warriors / Wolves / Rapids – representing our three largest local Worcester sports teams.  We have made connections with these three organisations to further encourage our pupils to compete fairly but confidently in a variety of activities – three activities a half term – around 18 an academic year.

In 2021/2022 we spent the premium on the following;

• Employing specialist outdoor education adults to work with class teachers and teaching assistants when delivering outdoor learning
• Engaging in competitions, or increasing pupils’ participation in offsite sporting events within the trust (football game with Newbridge)
• Buying sports equipment that enables the delivery of quality PE sessions in Key Stage 2/3 and 4 including enabling pupils to follow a qualification

– sports equipment including restocking bats and balls and buying football goals for the main play area

– gymnastics equipment including mats and benches

– items for play in our resourced breaktime boxes

• Providing swimming for all pupils and ensuring our pupils can swim by the time they leave the school

In 2022/2023 we will aim to spend it on;

• Listening to the voices of pupils / parents / school staff to purchase resources that will inspire participation
• Develop our connections with the local community through more ‘HOUSES’ events, more out of school activities, more interaction with other educational establishments and more local buisnesses and people
• Restock equipment that is essnetial for the running of the abundance of games / sports planned whilst following the curriculum
• Obtain the services of specialist coaches outside of the school staff team to enhance pupils opportunities to try something new – this could be away from school or during tutor periods at the start / end of the day, before / after school clubs, break / lunch time clubs
• Train school staff so pupils receive the best learning possible
• Use P.E / games to inspire learning in other subjects such as numeracy or literacy during focused interventions but through a hands-on theme
• Accessing local leisure facilities to further develop pupils education
• Further create our breaktime activities, play focus by constructing active environments

Where we need to go in future:

Having looked at our current practices in relation to national expectations of sport provision within Primary Schools, we identified a few areas for development.

These include:

• Attempt to participate in inter school competitions (in our local community we already share resources with St George’s Primary School and compete in sports games against a similar SEMH School in Newbridge)
• Ensuring that we continue to provide high quality outdoor learning (every year group has been on many trips off the school sitre and our Outdoor Pursuits continues to develop and inspire many of our pupils)
• Developing the breadth of curriculum and equipment available to pupils (a focus being on the GCSE Sports Studies course)

The expected impact:

When all of these objectives have been met, we expect to see an even wider range of pupils are interested in sport. We hope that there will be a greater opportunity for parents to have more involvement in sporting activities and that all the staff will feel far more confident with the PE that they are delivering. We expect to see a wider range of pupils taking up sport outside of school and most importantly we want to drive home all the fundamental values that underpin all sport which are so important, those of team work, unity and driving forward towards even greater achievements. The children of Riversides School will benefit greatly from entering in to the wider community as this will develop both sporting and social opportunities

At Riversides School, we pride ourselves on promoting healthy lifestyles through the taught curriculum, extra-curricular activities and participation in sports festivals and inter and intra competitions.

Our school vision is to create a physical education curriculum that motivates, enthuses and develops every child to become a lifelong learner and participator.

We aim to give opportunities for all pupils to develop their physical, leadership and coaching skills. As a school we want to create a buzz about physical activities where every child feels confident and ready to participate.

Primary Support Premium

Since September 2013 every primary school received £8000 funding plus £5 per pupil aged 5 and over on roll to help raise and develop the delivery of high quality PE in school.

The Purpose of this Funding

We are obliged to spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE, sport and outdoor learning, and we have the freedom to choose how we do this.

Last Year we spent this premium on the following;

• Employing specialist outdoor education adults to work with class teachers and teaching assistants when delivering outdoor learning
• Engaging in competitions, or increasing pupils’ participation in offsite sporting events within the trust
• Buying sports equipment that enables the delivery of quality PE sessions.
• Providing swimming for all pupils and ensuring our pupils can swim by the time they leave the school.

In 2020/2021 we will aim to spend it on;

• Gymnastics equipment (mats, benches, etc.)
• Sports equipment (balls, etc.)

At Riversides School we believe in the importance of developing pupils’ physical competence and confidence across a range of activities. A wide range of PE is delivered to the pupils, which aims to engage and inspire all pupils.

The school has worked hard to develop our Physical Education through curriculum time. The school currently provides a minimum of 2 hours of PE every week which is often boosted by the amount of outdoor learning that our pupils receive.

Riversides School currently offers a range of sporting and outdoor opportunities to its pupils during school.

Sports/outdoor learning opportunities include: –

*Football     *Hockey     *Rugby     *Lacrosse     *Cricket     *Dodgeball     *Hockey     *Badminton     *Tennis     *Rounders     *Baseball     *Basketball     *Netball     *Athletics (track and field)

Where we need to go in future

Having looked at our current practices in relation to national expectations of sport provision within Primary Schools, we identified a few areas for development.

These include:

• Attempt to participate in inter school competitions.
• Ensuring that we continue to provide high quality outdoor learning.
• Developing the breadth of curriculum and equipment available to pupils.

The expected impact

When all of these objectives have been met, we expect to see an even wider range of pupils are interested in sport. We hope that there will be a greater opportunity for parents to have more involvement in sporting activities and that all the staff will feel far more confident with the PE that they are delivering. We expect to see a wider range of pupils taking up sport outside of school and most importantly we want to drive home all the fundamental values that underpin all sport which are so important, those of team work, unity and driving forward towards even greater achievements. The children of Riversides School will benefit greatly from entering in to the wider community as this will develop both sporting and social opportunities