PE and Sport Funding 2016/2017

What is the Sports Premium?The Government is providing funding of £150 million per annum for 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.

The total amount of funding to be received by the school will be £8885. At Charles Warren Academy the funding has been allocated in the following ways:

To appoint a specialist PE teacher who has been given responsibility for:

• providing high quality, safe and effective physical activity opportunities both within and beyond the curriculum considering the interests and cultural and medical needs of all pupils.
• organising specific events which raise the profile of activity.
• providing pupils with the information and confidence they need to take advantage of physical activity opportunities in the local community so that they can become more independent participants and develop valuable life skills.
• To increase pupils knowledge and understanding of the importance of physical activity and to promote positive attitudes towards participation.
• To offer quality after school sporting opportunities encouraging all to join in.
• To enter local sporting events, raising the profile of sport.
• To purchase specialist sports equipment.  
• Ensuring more able pupils are sufficiently challenged and their skills are extended.

 To ’buy in’ to the Milton Keynes School Sports Partnership package which provides opportunities for;

1. Support for subject lead

2. Support for teachers

3. Extra-curricular support to develop an out of school hours programme

4. Achievement and competition - entering sports festivals

5. Behaviour – training for midday assistants.

The Sports Grant also supports:

•  transport needed for school teams to travel to and from sports events

•  the purchasing of  equipment to enhance curriculum and extra-curricular delivery

• the purchasing of play equipment that can be used at lunchtime

• To pay for a Charles Warren Academy football kit