Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium grant enables all school to receive additional funding from The Government to help them improve the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils.

It is evident that children from disadvantaged backgrounds generally face extra challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as their peers.

The pupil premium grant is designed to allow schools to help disadvantaged pupils by providing support and improving their progress, as well as the exam results they achieve.  More information is available here Pupil Premium Grant - Government Information.

Pupil Premium Strategy 2024/25

PE Sports Premium

All young people should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives. A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation and is central to meeting the government’s ambitions for a world-class education system.

Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing (increasing self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and lowering anxiety and depression), and children who are physically active are happier, more resilient and more trusting of their peers. Ensuring that pupils have access to sufficient daily activity can also have wider benefits for pupils and schools, improving behaviour as well as enhancing academic achievement.

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Evidencing the Impact of PE Sports Premium 2024/25 and evaluation 23/24

Swimming

At St Joseph's Catholic Primary School we aim for our children to leave Key Stage 2 being able to:

• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations 
• 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 
   

Swimming is the only sport that must be included in the National Curriculum for PE, and we offer swimming as part of the Year 3 and 4 curriculum. Pupils attend swimming lessons at the facilities provided by Maltman's Green School. Children are assessed at the end of the swimming unit and this data will be published at the end of KS2. 

Schools can choose to use the Primary PE and Sport Premium to provide additional provision for swimming but this must be for activities over and above the national curriculum requirements. We have used it in the academic year 2022-2023 to provide additional swimming support for those pupils who have been unable to access swimming due to Covid.  

As part of our continued commitment to promoting the lifelong benefits of physical education, we offer the opportunity for children to participate in catch-up sessions during Year 6. This is to ensure the key swimming skills, that have lifelong benefits, can be achieved by all.

Year 6 Swimming Competency
2023-2024 Assessment

Percentage of pupils within our 2023-24 Year 6 cohort that can do each of the following: