Sports Premium

The Federation of Trosnant Schools currently uses the government sports funding for a number of projects that support fun and enjoyment in sport and aim to improve staff knowledge and skills and boost activity and participation rates.

Federation project

We employ a Sports Activity Coordinator (SAC) who continues to have a significant impact on activity and sport in both schools. He has developed our break time provision by creating a rich, well-resourced environment helping to reduce incidents at break and lunch times. With a team of trained sports leaders, he encourages positive play at break and lunchtimes. The year 6 pupils run and coordinate games, dancing and competitions in both the Junior and Infant schools.

By employing a dedicated SAC we have been able to access a wider range of the Hampshire School Games activities. Alongside the extra curriculum program, he has undertaken fitness challenges with children – Marathon challenge, Danceathon, Skipping Challenges, English schools FA football week and Hampshire School Games week. Santa Run and Race for Life

The school has recently been recognised as a Platinum Mode Shift Stars school. The SAC coordinates this work and has ensured we have taken part in initiatives including Walk to School Week and Month, The Big Pedal, Scooter challenges and supported our Junior Road Safety Officers.

Infant School

In the Infant School, sports coaches provide extra-curricular clubs across the year. With clubs we aim to include all children who want to take part, however, we specifically encourage pupils in receipt of Pupil Premium to participate. If the club is oversubscribed, we look at past registers to ensure all children get the opportunity to take part in a club across the year.

At lunchtimes, we have employed two sports coaches to work with targeted children to ensure they have access to safe outdoor playtimes. These pupils are supported to play safely with fun at the heart of a variety of active games.

Careful timetabling of our Forest Schools Lead Teacher’s time has enabled all infant school children to have an active outdoor learning experience across the year. For Early Years and Year 1 this was three half-termly blocks across the year. For each year 2 class it was a half term block of learning. Sports funding has helped support staffing of the forest schools area.

Junior School

Sports coaches provide extra-curricular clubs across the year. Last academic year our sports coaches ran 6-week blocks of coaching on football, basketball, gymnastics, dodge ball and summer sports. We plan to follow a similar program of extra-curricular clubs this year.

The funding has helped us increase the range of opportunities the school can offer. When possible these clubs link to inter-school events and competitions. For example, a block of specialist football coaching at an after school club will lead to us being entered into an inter schools football league. When the opportunities arise we also link curriculum lessons to the inter school events.

With all clubs, we aim to include all children who want to take part. If the club is oversubscribed, we look at past registers to ensure all children will get the opportunity to take part in a club across the year. We actively promote the clubs to include the most vulnerable students. This addresses issues identified in our Pupil Survey where very few of our children take part in clubs outside of school.

As part of a review of our lunchtime procedures we noticed that activity rates amongst pupils was lower than we would have liked and that this was affecting the behaviour of a few children. Using sports funding we have brought in a sports coach to provide lunchtime sporting activities.

The plan for next year is that year 6 pupils will have additional specialist coaching across two terms to further develop their skills and to stretch all pupils to achieve their best.

Following the loss of the school’s outdoor swimming pool, the school community raised concerns that many of our children would be missing on learning this essential life skill. The governors therefore have agreed again to fund swimming across the whole of the Junior school with all year groups visiting the local leisure centre across the year for lessons. This is in addition to the statutory curriculum.

Children in the school’s resource provision are brought to school in shared taxis and are therefore unable to attend after school clubs and events. This past year we used the school’s Sports Coaches to provide an additional sports lesson for the resource provision children.

The Federation have been rewarded for their work in PE, extra-curricular activities, competitions with a Silver Mark from the School’s Games Mark organisation. The additional sports funding money has been essential in helping us to receive this award.

Sports Premium

Infant School Funding –2022/23 Academic Year £17,170
   
Expenditure 2022/23 Academic Year  
·         Sports coach run after school clubs £3,300
·         Sports coach run lunchtime club £6,322
·         Sports Day support £350
·         Sports Games Affiliation £200
·         Contribution towards Federation Sports Activity Coordinator costs £6,988
Total Expenditure £17,170
   
   
Junior School Funding – 2022/23 Academic Year £18,610
   
Expenditure 2022/23 Academic Year  
·         Sports coach run after school clubs £3,000
·         Sports coach run lunchtime club £5,060
·         Additional sports coaching in year 6 & Resourced Provision £990
·         Sports Partnership £250
·         Additional swimming lesson £4,000
·         Contribution towards Federation Sports Activity Coordinator costs £5,310
Total Expenditure £18,610
   

 

Swimming at Trosnant

Up until recently the school had an outdoor pool that was built by friends and family of the school in the 1960s. The school unfortunately had to close the pool and agreed to parents request for all children to still go swimming each year. Currently all year groups have swum each year at the local leisure centre taught by their qualified teachers.

The Year 6 data has been affected due to the children losing swimming time due to the Covid pandemic

 

What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres?

N.B. Even though your pupils may swim in another year please report on their attainment on leaving primary school at the end of the summer term 2022.

49/89

15 / 60 = 25%  
 

What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]?

Please see note above

30/ 60 = 50 %  
  What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations? 6/ 60 = 10%  
  Schools can choose to use the Primary PE and sport premium to provide additional provision for swimming but this must be for activity over and above the national curriculum requirements. Have you used it in this way? Yes