PE and Sports Premium Funding

Whiteknights receives a grant from the Government to support PE and sports. We use this money to employ a sports coach who assists with PE lessons in the afternoons, and runs lunchtime and afterschool sports clubs to cater for all ages.

We continue to supplement the cost of swimming lessons for pupils in Years 3 and 4. To further improve swimming lessons we reduced the number of pupils from 60 to 30 per swimming session. This increased the amount of attention that pupils got from the swimming teacher, which impacted positively on the progress pupils made in lessons.

Year 6 Swimming Assessment Results:

For a  pupil to meet the national curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety in England, they must achieve three criteria: 

• Swim competently, confidently, and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.

• Use a range of strokes effectively, such as front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke.

• Perform a safe self-rescue in different water-based situations. 

In swimming, our Year 6 children achieved the following:

• 38 out of the 58 (66%) children were able to swim; 26 out of the 58 (45%) children met all three criteria and were competent and confident swimmers.

• 27 out of the 58 (47%) children could use a range of strokes effectively

• 8 out of the 13 (62%) Pupil Premium children were able to swim; 4 out of the 13 (31%) Pupil Premium children were Competent and confident swimmers.

*The assessment figures are based on 58 of  61 pupils in the cohort being assessed.

The document below details our expenditure on PE during 2024-2025 and states our objectives for using the Government funding during 2025-2026.

 Sports Funding Expenditure 2024-2025 and Projections 2025-2026