What is the PE and Sport Premium?

The PE and Sport Premium is designed to help primary schools improve the quality of the PE and sport activities they offer their pupils. School leaders must spend this funding on improving the quality of sport and PE for all of their children. The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools and must have long-lasting and sustainable impact. Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport they offer. This means schools should use the premium to:

• develop or add to the PE and sport activities that the school already offers
• make improvements now that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

For example, schools can use funding to:

• hire specialist staff to work with teachers
• provide existing staff with training or resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively
• introduce new sports or activities and encourage more pupils to take up sport
• support and involve the least active children by running or extending school sports clubs, holiday clubs and Change4Life clubs
• run sport competitions
• increase pupils’ participation in the School Games
• run sports activities with other schools

How much PE and Sport Premium Funding do we receive?

Schools receive PE and sport premium funding based on the number of children in years 1 to 6.

• The 2024 - 2025 Sport Premium funding for Ruswarp Primary School is £16,280

How will we know if we have improved?

It is expected that schools will see an improvement against the following 5 key indicators:

• the engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – kick-starting healthy active lifestyles
• the profile of PE and sport being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement
• increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
• broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
• increased participation in competitive sport.

At Ruswarp Primary School, we strive to promote healthy and active lifestyles and aim to provide sporting opportunities for all our pupils both in and out of school. 

Please see our Sport Premium Reports below for further information. The reports provide a breakdown of how the money is spent, its proposed aims and the impact on our children.

Swimming Skills

Swimming is an important skill and can encourage a healthy and active lifestyle. Swimming is a key component of the PE curriculum offered at Ruswarp, especially in view of our close proximity to a river and the sea.

We provide swimming instruction from Nursery through to Key Stage Two.  

The programme of study for PE sets out the expectation that pupils should be taught to:

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• use a range of strokes effectively for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

Our children have weekly swimming lessons in the pool at Whitby Leisure Centre. We work in partnership with the swimming instructor and provide additional ‘catch up’ sessions for our children noted as not meeting the national curriculum standard for the end of KS2.

At the end of the academic year 2023 - 2024,  91% of year six children achieved the following objectives: 

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• use a range of strokes effectively, for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.