Please find a review of the PE and sports premium spending below. Please note that the statutory requirement is that school's publish this information based on the previous year's expenditure. In this case the spending review below is for the academic year 2023-2024 and is predominantly based on the costings of Edstart. From September 2024, our PE provider is Dare2Dream. Please visit our curriculum page for more information.

Total sports funding 2023-2024: £18, 090

Ed start staff coaching and PE curriculum- £13, 568

Ed start are a professional body of sports coaches who came into school to deliver our PE curriculum and some of our extra-curricular clubs. From the 24-25 academic year, our contract with Edstart has finished and is now with Dare2Dream. The impact of this has been that the children have had a taught session with a specialist teacher dependent on the sport. 

As part of the Edstart package, staff received CPD within the weekly PE lesson and access to lesson plans if there was a time when the coach was not available to teach the lesson (e.g. if there was a competition during the school day). This has also ensured sustainability in terms of staff delivering high quality sessions in the absence of the coach.

Extra-curricular curriculum- £3, 997

At St Margaret’s, we are continually trying to raise the profile of Physical Education and we wish to instil a love and enthusiasm of physical activity opportunities outside of the classroom. This year the children have engaged in a variety of outdoor adventurous activities including: netball, football, basketball, multi-sports, dance and gymnastics. Whilst focusing on enhancing physical skills, these opportunities also give the children chance to develop their: resilience, friendship and respect- which are three of our school’s Christian values.  We also wish to provide children with sporting opportunities which they wouldn’t necessarily be able to access outside of school and give all children the opportunity to develop a strength in a sport that they may then be able to continue outside of school.

Competition and Physical Education associations subscription - £55

This academic year, school have had a membership with PWJSA and BJSSA football leagues. Due to the organisational and running costs, there is a membership fee to pay in order for school’s to participate. The children in school have benefitted greatly from this and even won some of the competitions they have taken part in. Our Key Stage 2 boys’ footballers have done particularly well this year winning the final of their 9-a-side competition.

Equipment for extra-curricular activities- £470

We have used some of our budget to purchase extra-curricular equipment so we can facilitate a wider variety of sporting clubs at St Margaret’s. Additionally, we have tried to increase the pupil engagement in physical activity and this has been helped by the purchase of bikes, balls and nets to enhance breaktime and lunchtime provision.

The biking opportunities allow the children to practice skills and also help prepare them with the basic skills needed for bike ability when they reach year 6. For pupils who do not have access to bikes at home this has been hugely beneficial by giving them the opportunity to learn to ride a bike from EYFS through to year 6. We hope that by purchasing equipment for clubs this will increase the sustainability of us being able to offer a variety of extra-curricular sports on a more permanent basis.

It is a statutory requirement of the National Curriculum for schools to report on the swimming ability of the year 6 cohort. Please see data for the 2023-2024 academic year below: