Sports Premium
Physical Education and Sports Premium Strategy 2025-2027
Our objective at St Mary’s Primary school is to ensure all pupils leave physically literate and with the knowledge, skills, understanding and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.
Aims for our School
The successful engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity- kickstarting healthy active lifestyles (encouraging the additional 60 minutes per day in line with Government guidelines).
- All of our pupils receive weekly PE lessons taught by the PE subject lead.
- Our youngest children have a shelter and safe outdoor area that can be accessed during all months of the year.
- Our goal posts and extensive outdoor area encourage physical activity during break times and lunchtimes.
- The children have access to the playtime equipment shed, at all times, this is also self- chosen.
- After school clubs offer a range of sports and physical experiences, circus skills, yoga, gymnastics, hockey, skateboarding, boxercise, football etc. The ethos of our after school clubs is to firstly increase the range of sporting experiences for children and secondly to offer a taster should pupils wish to continue their interest outside school.
Profile of PE
The profile of PE and sport is being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement.
Pupils are now encouraged to attend a range of off- site sporting competitions, eg, cross country, netball, football, small school athletics etc.
- A new sports kit will be introduced from September 2026 to raise the profile of sport and refresh the school approach to competitive sports.
- New playground climbing equipment was built in summer 2026.
- School received some funding from a local business to purchase new playtime equipment.
- Reminders and focus on healthy schools, continues with promotion of drinking water and consumption of healthy snacks in school.
- Science and Food Technology curriculum continue to promote healthy mind and body education; and PSHE also covers health and well-being with the children.
- All children in Year 3 and 4 receive a whole term of swimming.
- To ensure that all children can swim 25 metres by the end of Year 6.
- Swimming classes continue at Market Drayton swimming pool for our children.
- Records of swimming progress are kept and each year the annual percentage of competent swimmers is targeted to increase.
Primary School Sports Funding
The PE and sport premium is ring fenced funding and designed to help primary schools improve the quality of the PE and sports activities offered to children, through self-sustaining improvement. It is important to emphasise that the focus of spending must lead to long lasting impact against the national vision that will live on well beyond the Primary PE and sport premium funding and benefit pupils both now and in the future.