Sports (including Sports Premium)

At Dr Radcliffe's, we recognise the vital importance of promoting physical activity and participation in school sport for all children. As well as increasing children's health and well-being at school, it also helps children to develop habits and interests which will help them to remain as active and healthy individuals as they grow older.

In addition, school sport has been shown to help children to develop their confidence, leadership and social skills and is strongly linked to improved academic performance.

We have a busy and varied programme of events both in school (Level 1 events) and in competitions where the children participate in fixtures and festivals with other schools (Level 2 events). These events are run through the North Oxfordshire School Sports Partnership, our membership of which we finance with the School Sports Premium Funding. We are also focussed on achieving a high level of participation in extra-curricular clubs and continue to work on raising activity levels across the school day.

The School Games events include competitions in sports such as tag rugby, netball, football and hockey as well as inclusion festivals which target children who would otherwise be less likely to look for opportunities to take part in sport.

School Sports Premium Funding

Dr Radcliffe’s CE Primary School

Primary Physical Education and Sport Premium

Since September 2013, all primary schools across England have received a share of the Government £150m per annum Primary Physical Education and Sport Premium. In September 2017 the total grant available was doubled to £300m. The funding is ring-fenced and must be spent on additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport primary schools offer.

Dr Radcliffe's have received £17,610 for the current academic year.

£3,000 of our grant has been spent on our annual affiliation to North Oxfordshire School Sport Partnership (NOSSP). This affiliation gives Dr Radcliffe's access to regular expert advice and support from a secondary PE specialist, quality assured professional development training for teachers and teaching assistants, termly networking opportunities for our PE lead, occasional input and support from qualified sports coaches, access to regular sports competitions and festivals including national School Games competitions, support with the development and delivery of primary Change4Life sports clubs, links to quality assured community clubs and leisure providers, data collection to help measure and monitor progress and impact and regular national and local updates relating to PE, children’s health and well-being and school sport.

NOSSP affiliation also provides automatic primary Level 2 membership to Youth Sport Trust and a range of additional benefits and support including the Youth Sport Trust Quality Mark.

For a copy of our agreement with North Oxfordshire School Sport Partnership please click here.

For full details of our PE and Sport Premium spend for this academic year, the impact it has had/will have on pupils’ PE and sports participation and attainment, and information on how we plan to make these improvements sustainable, please see below.

Sports Premium Funding Breakdown - Evidencing the Impact