What is the Sports Premium?

The Government is providing funding of £150 million per annum for academic years, which has been extended to 2025. This is in place to provide new, substantial sports funding for primary schools . This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. Click here for the Department of Education link to the Primary School’s Sports Funding page. 

Purpose of funding

Schools will have to spend the sport 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 include:

• hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE
• new or additional Change4Life clubs/ other sport clubs
• paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport
• providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport
• running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games
• buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE/sport
• providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and holiday clubs
• creating opportunities for children to develop as healthier young people

How we are spending the Sports Funding and who will benefit?

The Governors agree that the money must be used so that: all children benefit regardless of sporting ability; that the most able children are given the opportunity to compete in advanced tournaments; that staff have access to training opportunities and continued professional development. 

Having achieved School Games Platinum  and "School of the Year" from our local sports network we are really trying to build on the enjoyment and participation in PE and sport at Our Lady of Lourdes.

Sports Funding 2017/18

Sports Premium

This year we will receive £16,770 in Sports Premium funding. The funding has been spent according to the guidelines set out at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pe-and-sport-premium-funding-allocations-for-2017-to-2018

So far we have spent:

We intend to ….

+ get the running track resurfaced.

+ we will also be looking into other uses for the funding.

Sports Funding 2016/17

Already this year we have used our sports premium for exciting new projects:

• partly funding Morecambe Football Club sessions
• golf sessions with Heysham Golf Club
• training the teachers through the FA
• building new equipment to keep the children at OLOL engaged in activity
• OLCC football competition.
• Year 2 experienced bowls with Dan

Class 4 have been learning how to ride their bikes safely.  They have learnt to :

Read road signs 

mount a bike

set of safely - looking behind you 

signal

Change gear

make a u turn

ride in and out of cones

emergency stops

Quick turns