The Sports Grant is given to school to promote physical education and competitive sport. This is a report on how we intend to spend the grant in 2019/20 and the impact it will have on the school. This report is also available to download.
Overview of the school:
Number of Pupils and total Sports Grant received |
Total number of pupils on roll |
354 |
Total amount of Sports Grant received |
£ 18,890 |
Nature of Expenditure 2019/20 |
Planned Expenditure |
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Affiliation to Blackburn Schools' Sports Association |
£200 |
Access to competition SLA through BPSSA |
£ 950 |
Sports Equipment: refurbishment of equipment (including mile a day and orienteering courses) |
£2,000 |
Sports Coach (Mr P. Eastwood) |
£ 11,700 |
Specialised Sports Coach: gymnastics, dance, dodgeball |
£4,230 |
Curriculum Focus of Sports Grant Expenditure 2019-20
The school will continue to focus or develop in the following areas:
- Continue to increase and maintain pupil participation in competitive sport with our disabled pupils and Key Stage One pupils
- Increase participation in a wide range of inter schools competitive sport across the age range
- Employ the skills and expertise of Sports coach to deliver coaching and support teaching (2 days a week)
- Promote positive sporting behaviours using the hands, heart and head principles and link to teacher assessment
- Continue to Identify and increase participation pupils of accessing sport or who are sports ‘shy’.
- Maintain and improve the teaching of dance, orienteering and gymnastics
- Break gender barriers and attitudes by Increasing the participation of boys in gymnastics and girls in football and cricket
- Continue to work on multi-skills and fitness and stamina of reception and Key Stage One pupils
Sports Grant Expenditure Success Criteria 2019-20
- Maintain after school clubs/ lunch time clubs linked to competitions.
- School’s contribution to BPSSA ensures access to competitions across the age range
- Increase in KS1 competition and extra-curricular trials for infant pupils
- Maintain participation in SEND Football Tournament, BOCCIA , SEND Paralympics and cricket events
- Continued active participation in inter-school competitions at all key stages
- Continuous improvement in the teaching and learning in gymnastics, dance and orienteering
- Increased participation in extra-curricular sport for pupils who are sports ‘shy’- 80% of pupils to represent the school
- Pupils display sporting behaviours expected of them in intra-sport, inter-school and on the playground, consistently
- Increased male participation in gymnastics at KS2 and increased participation of girls at KS2 in cricket and football