Symondsbury 
Sports Funding at Symondsbury Primary School
The government provides funding jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, to see money going directly to primary schools to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. We receive about £16,000 each year. At Symondsbury Primary School, we recognise the significant contribution of PE to the health and well-being of all children. In addition, we believe that an innovative and varied PE curriculum and extra-curricular opportunities have a positive influence on the concentration, attitude and academic achievement of all children.
Our aim
At Symondsbury Primary School we aim to establish an outstanding PE programme to develop a sporting culture which helps to improve all pupils’ physical wellbeing and lifestyles through a planned programme of action to promote participation, progress, completion and enjoyment.
We are very proud of the PE and Sport that takes place in our school. The children are given a wide range of opportunities to take part in a variety of sport and physical activity. We are using our Sport Premium to improve the quality of PE and Sport provision in the following ways:
- Procuring quality-assured professional training for staff to raise their confidence and competence in teaching PE and sport.
- Supporting regular sports tournaments, festivals and competitions for pupils of all ages.
- Hiring professional sports coaches to teach the children different sports during curriculum time.
- Purchasing sports equipment for use during active playtimes.
- Developing our playground to be friendlier and encourage the children to be active.
- Purchasing new equipment to be used in PE lessons
- Developing upper KS2 pupils as peer mediators
Click on the links below to find out more about PE at Symondsbury:
Our PE Action Plan Our PE Long-Term PlanWe are currently re-writing our policy - Please come back soon
PE Progression DocumentSkills & Knowledge ProgressionVocabulary PyramidFestivals and competitions which Symondsbury partakes:
- School Colmers Hill cross country run
- School sports day
- School Marathon run (KS2)
- Colmers Hill cross-country run (Organised and hosted at Symondsbury)
- Kenway Cup Football
- Dance festival (Year 3/4)
- Tag Rugby Festival
- KS1 Multiskills Festival
- Cluster Quad Kids athletics
- Year 5/6 cricket festival
- Cross country races at Colfox school
Local clubs Symondsbury has links with
Bridport Football Club Juniors
Bridport Barracudas Swimming Club
Measuring the impact of the sports premium
We will evaluate the impact of the Sports Premium funding as part of our normal self-evaluation and provision mapping arrangements, including the evaluation and assessments by our teachers. We monitor the increasing participation in PE and sports so that all pupils develop healthy lifestyles and reach the performance levels they are capable of. To do this, we will look at progress in PE, pupil questionnaires as well as other areas of development such as self-esteem, confidence and the numbers of pupils involved in sporting activities in and out of school.
How sports funding has been used
Government PE and sports premium for primary schools link
