St Martin's School Sports Premium Funding.

Sport Premium funding, also known as Olympic Legacy funding for Physical Education and School Sport, was announced by the government in March 2013. This substantial sum of £150m per year is going directly to schools, running from September 2013 to August 2015. The new ‘ring-fenced’ funding – only to be spent on PE and sport – will go directly to schools who will decide what is best for their children’s needs with the aim of improving the quality of provision in every state primary school in England. This could vary from specialist coaching and teacher training to dedicated sports programmes, Change4Life sport clubs and support for after-school or weekend competitions. Each school will receive £8000 as a lump sum and an additional £5 per pupil.

At St Martin's we aim to offer a wide range of activities, delivered in school, which aims to engage and inspire all our children.  We are committed to ensure that all children receive at least 2 hours per week of high quality well – planned PE, and that opportunities exist to allow our pupils opportunities outside curriculum time such as after school clubs, intra-school competition and pathways to existing sports clubs.

Over the year each child will participate in games, athletics, dance and gymnastics lessons.  Opportunities are also planned for swimming from Year 1 to Year 6.  Our aim is that all children leave St Martins at the end of Year 6 able to swim 25 meters. Below is an example of where we spent our funds in the last academic year:

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