Sports Premium

School Sports Funding

Here at Turnditch, we endeavour to ensure that all children should be provided with the opportunity to take part in high quality sport, fitness and physical activity. It is our aim that children will be presented with as many opportunities in as many different fitness fields as possible. We aim to provide sporting opportunities for mixed gender groups without bias.

Sports Premium money in our school will be used to maximise opportunities for all our children to take part in both competitive sports, fitness activities and the enhancement of already excellent P.E delivery. This will include the funding of professional coaches to teach staff how to deliver high quality sporting sessions and other activities. An amount of this money will also be used to fund high quality P.E and other sporting equipment. This will ensure that we stay ahead in our striving for excellence in high quality sporting activity delivery.

Here at Turnditch, we also use the funding to ensure that no child ever misses out on a physical experience because of financial constraints.

Sports Premium

Turnditch School has a commitment to delivering competitive school sport in a positive environment, as well as encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle throughout school and life beyond.

We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport, including those young leaders and officials who help to make our intra-school competitions possible and staff who ensure all our pupils experience at least one festival, competition or event each year.  We recognise the power physical activity and school sport can have in improving a child’s physical and mental well-being as well as their social, emotional and cognitive skills.

PE and Sport

Background

In April 2013, the Government announced new funding for physical education (PE) and sport to be used to improve the quality and breadth of PE and sport provision in schools.  In 2016, it was announced that funding would be doubled from 2017 -2020, as a result of income acquired through a levy imposed on soft drink sales, known as the ‘sugar tax’. The funding is ring-fenced and is allocated directly to primary schools across England, with a lump sum being allocated to each school and a per-pupil top-up mechanism.

How is the money spent?

Schools are free to determine how best to use this funding to improve the quality, breadth and profile of PE and sport so that pupils develop healthy lifestyles and reach the performance levels they are capable of. For further information on how much PE and sport premium schools receive and advice on how it should be spent, click on the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pe-and-sport-premium-for-primary-schools

In order to ensure all young people have access to high-quality PE, physical activity and school sport, schools are required to publish details of their sporting provision on their websites. Below is our most recent PE and sports premium action plan showing how we intend to utilise our funding across the school to improve our PE and sport provision.

Evidencing the Impact of Primary PE and Sports Premium 2024-25