Sports Funding
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.
St Benedict's has partnered with Warrington Sports Academy (WSA) to deliver high quality PE lessons with teachers and coaches jointly teaching every PE lesson taught.
Working with WSA we have developed a highly structured, coherent and progressive plan that maps out what skills and sports the children will be taught from Nursery right through to Year 6. Please see below.
Additional funding from the DfE has to be carefully managed to make sure the impact of this additional income is positive and achieves the desired outcomes. The PE and Sports Premium Impact Report is listed below.