Sports Funding

Sports Provision through the Sports Premium Funding at The Hermitage Schools

We have always offered a broad and balanced Physical Education curriculum and various extra-curricular sports clubs. As part of the Olympic legacy, the government has provided additional funding in order to improve the provision of physical education and sport in primary schools.
This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to schools to be spent on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. All state-maintained schools, academies, middle schools, special schools and pupil referral units which have primary aged pupils (as reported in the school census) will receive the funding.

We believe that PE and sport plays an important role in preparing our children to become healthy citizens of the future.  We have welcomed the Government’s funding so that we could improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in our schools.  We are committed to using this resource in developing high quality PE lessons, alongside greater opportunities for sporting competitions and clubs for all young people.

We have undertaken a phased plan to ensure that we improve children’s fitness and teach them the skills needed to stay healthy and happy.  We have spent Sports Funding in two ways; improving teaching and learning of PE and initially building an infrastructure to support learning.  Every year we spend money training staff, so that a high quality of sports teaching takes place and equipment enables high quality teaching and learning. 

Further information is available in the following document.

The Infant School Sports premium evaluation and action plan

The Junior Schools Sports premium evaluation and action plan