PE And Sport Premium For Primary Schools

Click here for the Department of Education link to the Primary School’s Sports Funding page.

What is the Sports Premium?

The Government is providing funding of £150 million per annum for academic years 2013/14 and 2014/15 to provide new, substantial primary school sport funding’. 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.

The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.

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 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/sportProviding places for pupils on after school sport clubs and holiday clubs

Providing opportunities for children to compete

We feel it is important that all children have the chance to represent their school and take part in competitive sport against other schools. We will continue our existing competitions such as netball, cross country ,football, tag rugby, athletics, hockey and swimming. We will also arrange further tournaments and fixtures between with the other primary schools within our cluster and Local Authority. Several sporting events take place within the school day and previously we have not been in a position to attend all of these sporting events.

Professional development of staff

One of the key strands of the sports funding is to develop the skills of our school staff so that the quality of PE and sport that is delivered will be enhanced. Qualified sports coaches will work alongside staff to deliver lessons and support planning and delivery of PE. Working in this way teacher confidence and expertise will develop and the school will benefit from high quality planning resource materials. One area of development identified by staff is that of assessment of PE. The school has employed a PE specialist to develop an assessment programme and to work with staff.

Providing quality assured materials for PE and school sport

The extra funding has enabled the school to provide more equipment to be used in PE lessons to encourage full and active participation.

Raising the status of PE

Mill Hill Sports Kits  have been purchased to be worn by pupils when at sporting competitions and outdoor events.

The school is proud to announce that Mill Hill School has achieved the Sainsbury’s School Games Gold Award for showing a dedication to sport and fitness both in and out of school. We have increased the number of competitions we enter as well as developing links within the wider community.

21st March 2025

Dear Parents/Carers Its been great to see the children getting some much needed sunshine as we move into Springtime and can once again enjoy playing outside on thefield. Year 6’s have been hard at work with SATS practice and its great to see some wonderful results. We…

7th March 2025

Dear Parents/Carers What another fantastic, busy week at Mill Hill Primary School. We just want to say a massive thank you to all the parents/carers for all the efforts made for World Book Day! Everyone looked AMAZING!! We have uploaded some pictures onto our Facebook…

28th February 2025

Dear Parents/Carers We hope you had a wonderful week off with your children! It’s lovely to see their happy, smiley faces again. World Book Day is next week, the 6th March, we look forward to seeing your imaginative outfits, remember there will be prizes for the best…

7th February 2025

Dear Parents/Carers We are coming up to February half term which means that we are already half way through the academic year! Where has the time gone? An email was sent to all parents last week regarding Headlice, please can we ask parents/carers to check their…

24th January 2025

Dear Parents/Carers We have had another fantastic week here at Mill Hill, we have had the Dental team in checking our students teeth (those with permissions) we will be scheduling another visit from them later in the summer. Some of our Mill Hill students took part in…

20th December 2024

Dear Parents/Carers We have come to theend of the first term of the school year. It has been a long term, but we have ended with lots of fun and excitement – just how Christmas should be! Judging by the noise from the hall, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ was a great success…

15th November 2024

Dear Parents/Carers I am always overwhelmed by the generosity of our parents. As I write, boxes in the entrance are rapidly filling with allmanner of Christmas decorations – there are,amongst other things, candles, baubles, tinsel and crackers.Click here to view the…

4th October 2024

Dear Parents/Carers What an exciting week in school! Thank you, Mr Warden for organising the launch of Times Tables Rock Stars with our day of dressing up. Everyone channelled their inner Rock Star and arrived in the most amazing costumes. I am beginning to think that…

28th June 2024

At last we are enjoying sunny days, it makes such a difference to how everyone is feeling! It has been a very busy and exciting last couple of weeks in school – sports week was a resounding success with all the children experiencing a whole range of activities.Click…