VISION:

Our vision is for all children at St John’s to experience excellent physical education, school sport and physical activity that will lead to life-long participation.

Intent - 

Through a high quality, safe and challenging physical education programme, the school aims to develop successful learners and confident individuals who develop as independent enquirers, creative thinkers, reflective learners, team workers, self-managers and effective participators. We aim to inspire our pupils to enjoy physical activity and sport as they go through life.

Implementation - 

We achieve these aims through:
• A broad and varied curriculum (our curriculum map has begun to move away from sports and looks at skills and what sports can be used as vehicles to enhance those skills)
• Extra curricular clubs/activities (clubs are used for enrichment of the curriculum and to prepare for competition)
• School Sport Competitions (intra and inter class/year group/school)
• Physical Activity (Break/Lunchtimes/Active Travel)

Impact-

We help motivate children to participate in a variety of sports through quality teaching that is engaging and fun. Children learn to take responsibility for their own health and fitness, many of who will also enjoy the success of competitive sports. We equip our children with the necessary skills and a love for sport. They will hopefully grow up to live happy and healthy lives utilising the skills and knowledge acquired through PE. We link our physical health with our mental health and use this to encourage growth mind sets and well-being.

• Children will achieve age related expectations in PE;

• Children will enjoy sport and will seek additional extra-curricular activities both school and external to school related;

 • Children will use fitness and sports to improve their physical and mental health throughout their lives.

Extra Curricular Clubs

Please follow the Breakfast and After School link to access our whole school Extra Curricular yearly overview.

Evidencing the impact of Primary PE and Sport premium report 2024-25:

Schools receive additional funding from the government in their budget for PE and School Sport. The report below shows how we are using this funding to develop our practice and make sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and School Sport offered in our school.

Our funding allocation for 2024/2025 was £18,870

 The DfE has outlined five key indicators where schools should expect to see improvement if funding is well invested:

1. The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity.
2. Raise the profile of PE and sport across the school as a tool for whole school improvement.
3. Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport.
4. Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils.
5. Increased participation in competitive sport. 

Our aim is to lay the foundations for an enjoyable lifelong journey of opportunities through sport and physical activity. We use our funding to help inspire, engage and motivate all pupils at St John’s to engage with this.

We employ Mr Grice as a specialist, qualified sports professional, known as our Sports Coach. Part of the involves team teaching, building staff confidence and developing additional skills to help them teach high-quality PE lessons Lessons are inclusive and designed to engage all pupils, from those not normally enthused by sport through to the confident budding athletes we have!

We are committed to maintaining and extending the equipment we have in school in order for staff to be able to deliver fully inclusive and varied lessons, as well as to help us expand our after school club offer. This year has seen the addition of Boccia to our School Sports Week and upcoming clubs.

We also use some of our funding on our membership to the Amber Valley School Sports Partnership (AVSSP). This affiliation includes entry into AVSSP competitions such as athletics, football, netball, basketball and cricket and gives children access to other opportunities including Bikeability and Sports Leader training sessions.

Developing volunteers from Y5 and Y6 children into Sports Leaders has continued to have a positive impact. Sports Leaders have responsibility for children across all key stages in various sporting activities at lunchtimes. This gives our pupils more opportunities to engage with sport and physical activity, and also helps to develop older children's leadership and coaching skills. Our Sports Leaders for the last two years have also planned and led their own afterschool club to younger year groups.

Impact on pupil attendance at clubs and competitions:

32% of our pupils attended an ASC this academic year (31% 2023-24)

24% of our pupils represented St John’s in a sports competition/event this academic year (17% 2023-24)