Sports Premium Funding: Sporting Vision

At Gretton primary we look to inspire and engage children’s interest in sporting activities through providing a wide range of opportunities within school, after school and within the wider community to Aim High.  We look to foster children’s interest in physical wellbeing and healthy lifestyles in order to establish long lasting lifestyle messages. 

School Sports Premium

The government is providing additional funding of £150 million per annum for to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. This funding – provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport – will be allocated to primary school head teachers.

This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools. 

Purpose of funding

Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.

Possible uses for the funding might include:

• hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work with primary teachers when teaching PE
• supporting and engaging  the least active children through new or additional Change4Life clubs
• paying for professional development opportunities for teachers in PE and sport
• providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE and sport
• running sport competitions, or increasing pupils’ participation in the School Games
• buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE and sport
• providing places for pupils on after school sports clubs and holiday clubs
• pooling the additional funding with that of other local schools

School Sports Premium Spending at Gretton

At Gretton we want to ensure that every child has equal access to a wide range of sporting activities, both competitive and non-competitive, and that physical activity is sufficiently promoted to ensure that levels of participation are maximised in all areas of the school. Furthermore, the school wishes to ensure that children’s engagement is long-lasting and that participation continues beyond the immediate vicinity of the school.

Therefore we have chosen to allocate our sports premium funding in the following ways:

• We have invested in our outdoor environment to allow for more stimulating and active break times and lunch times.
• We have secured the services of a number professional coaches to both broaden the children’s sporting experiences and allow our teachers to develop their own skills. 
• We have committed a proportion of the funding to updating our PE resources and the storage of these to ensure that the teachers and children have access to the very best equipment that is available.
• Sports funding was used to support the costs of Swimming travel and coaches and 94% of current (2025 to 2026) Year 6 cohort can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over 25 meters, use a range of strokes effectively and perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

Sustainability

In order to ensure the funding provides sustainable change we have looked to invest in two crucial areas. Firstly, utilising funds to update key curriculum resources has meant that ongoing sports provision will continue to remain at a high standard. Furthermore, allowing sports coaches to work alongside teaching staff has meant that the skill level within the school has been raised and can be sustained into the future beyond the Governments funding.