What is the Sport Premium?

Sport plays such an important role in school life. From keeping fit to learning new skills to taking part in competitions! All of the children at St Margaret Clitherow’s are given the opportunity to learn new sports and challenge themselves in different ways.

Schools are given money by the government specifically to enhance the provision of PE and they can choose how they use this additional funding, for example to: hire specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work with primary teachers during PE lessons. At SMC we use the money in many different ways e.g.

  • provide resources and training courses in PE and sport for teachers
  • run sport competitions or increase pupils’ participation in the School Games
  • run sports activities with other schools

Accountability

Since September 2013, Ofsted inspections report on PE and sport provision and on how schools spend their additional funding. They also hold schools accountable by requiring them to publish by April 2014, on their websites, details of how they spend (or will spend) their PE and sport grant. They must also include detail about the impact this funding has on pupils’ PE and sport participation.

Please click on the link below to see the Sports Grant:

 

Swimming Data 2025-2026

 

Question Statistics Further context relative to local challenges
What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres? 44/59 = 75%
What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]? 44/59 = 75%
What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations? 51/59 = 86%
Schools can choose to use the Primary PE and Sport Premium to provide additional provision for swimming but this must be for activity over and above the national curriculum requirements. Have you used it in this way? Yes Many children joined us after the children went swimming in Y4 so we had 25 children who attended top up swimming sessions this year.
Have you provided CPD to improve the knowledge and confidence of staff to be able to teach swimming and water safety? No Cleveland Fire Brigade provided sessions for children from Nursery – Y6 on water safety.