Dalton St Michael's CE Primary School and Nursery

Sports Premium Funding 

Since 2013 the government has providing funding to provide new and substantial primary school sports. The funding has been jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and has seen money going directly to primary school Head Teachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children.

 

Use of the funding at Dalton St Michael’s C.E. Primary School in 2024/25

In the above forms you can see how we spent our Sports Premium. The main way that we spent our Sports Premium was to renew our 'Trim Trail' that was damaged. This has provided the children at school a place that they can use in all weathers to keep physically active. We have also bought into the West Lancashire Sports Partnership. This has priovided high quality PE teaching as well as providing staff CPD to ensure that they are confident with their own PE teaching ready for September 2026.

 

Impact of the funding at Dalton St Michael's C.E. Primary School

Since accessing the Sports funding we have been fortunate that this has helped to consolidate the physical skills of the majority of our pupils. It has enabled us to provide opportunities for the children to take part in many more inter-school sports activities and excel in a variety of areas at both individual and team level.

To ensure the sustainability of these improvements, all staff have worked with the qualified coaches in a range of activities across the Primary P.E. National Curriculum. All our teaching staff teach P.E. throughout the school year and are confident to do so. Assessments are kept up-to-date and indicate the progress the children have made in each aspect of P.E. These assessments are used as a diagnostic tool to aid future planning.

 

In 2024/25 66% of our year 6 children met the national standard for swimming.