Sports Premium

Our PE Funding means exceptional improvement in the physical education offered to all children, an increase in the range and quality of resources and increase opportunities for competitive sport.

Our PE Policy can be downloaded below:

PE-Policy

The PE and Sports Allocation is funding provided to schools in addition to main school funding. This funding is provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport.

The funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on improving the provision of PE and sport in school.

2021/22 £17,766

2022/23 £18,010

2023/24 £18,010

We plan to use Sports Premium to fund the following:

•  - To support and co-ordinate extra curricular activities
•  - To provide high quality teaching of Physical Education for all children
•  - To further development the PE curriculum.
•  - To further increase attendance at school competitions (including hire of a mini-bus for some events)
•  - To support and co-ordinate extra curricular activities
•  - Employment of a sports coach and a dance teacher to enhance the extra-curricular provision.
•  - To provide an increased range of equipment for delivery of the curriculum and extra curricular activities.
•  - To buy into the Abingdon and Vale Partnership

 Sports Premium Document

All children in key stage 2 receive 2 hours quality PE per week, children in key stage 1 receive an average of 1.5 hours. This can go up by an additional 2 hours per week with extra curricular activities. 70% of children in years 4-6 participate in an extra curricular sporting activity with 30% taking part in two or more clubs.

We were awarded our Schools Games Platinum Certificate in 2019, following many years of Gold awards.

We also received the Oxfordshire Lawn Tennis Association School of the year award in 2022.

As a school we are very successful in inter school competitions. Over the past few years we have competed in the following competitions at town, and district level:

-Athletics, cross country, cricket, gymnastics, tennis, swimming, netball.

As a school we are part of the vale football league for both boys and girls competitions.

This year we won the Abingdon Partnership Cricket Competitions in all three categories, year 5, year 6 and girls only competition. All teams qualified for county finals with our girls team coming away as county bronze medalists.

All children in year 4 and 6 took part in the Abingdon partnership quadkids athletics competition with Our year 6 team (supported by some year 5's) coming in second place. This team were also runners up at the vale finals and gained qualification to the county finals. 

We were vale gymnastics champions in 2020 and County Champions in gymnastics in 2019 (the last time the competition took place.)

We regularly take part in Dance performances at the New Theatre Oxford as part of the Oxfordshire schools dance festival and the Great British Dance off.