Pensford Primary School

Pensford Primary School

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“Pupils feel safe
at school and are kind
to one another. They like
being at school and appreciate
the many experiences
they have.” - Ofsted
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PE and Sport Premium

Impact of our spending

This document shows our planning for our PE and Sports Premium Spend in 2024-25, and our reporting on this spend as required by the Department for Education (DfE) has been completed.  You can view PDFs of our submission to the DfE by clicking these three links: Finance report, Evaluation Report, Declarations.

More importantly though, and probably of greater interest to parents, is the very notable success we have in PE.  We firmly believe that this is due to our inclusive approach, involving all children in sport and physical activity from an early age.  This feeds through to success such as that listed below.

Success in competitive sport in 2024-25 - we think this is impressive for a school of only 100 children!

  • Athletics: 2nd in Somerset (indoor), Somerset Champions in Quad Kids and BANES Champions in Quad Kids for Years 3 and 4
  • Badminton - BANES Champions
  • Basketball - BANES Y5 Champions, 4th for Y6
  • Cricket - Somerset Champions for the mixed team; 2nd in Somerset for the girls-only team
  • Cross Country Running  - 4 children were selected to represent BANES in the Somerset final
  • Football - Our mixed team was 3rd in Somerset and our girls-only team was 3rd in the South of England; our Year 3/4 team are BANES Champions
  • Gymnastics - our team came 3rd in BANES
  • Netball - the girls' team are Somerset Champions; the mixed team are BANES Champions
  • Swimming - our team came 3rd in BANES
  • Tag Rugby - BANES Champions

For a further overview of our successes and how the Premium Funding works, please read on...

Perhaps the most notable outcome of our PE & Sport Premium Spending is that we have now been awarded the School Games Platinum Award  for now two years in a row (June 2024 and June 2025), having been awarded the Gold Award for the four previous years.  The Platinum Award is difficult to achieve and demonstrates the impact our spending has had right across the school in providing a wide range of opportunities for children to develop their sport.

    

We are very proud of the range of sports and opportunities that we offer, which have led to us being given this award.  Please read the criteria to see what we achieved in order to gain the Platinum Award. 

We are also required to publish the percentage of Year 6 pupils who achieve the 3 key outcomes for swimming.  The latest figures, for 2020 are as follows:

Outcome % of Y6 children who achieved it (2023)
  • swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
 100%
  • use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
 100%
  • perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
 100%

 How the funding works

Primary Schools have received money specifically directed at making sustainable improvements to the PE and sport that they offer.  This page is where we explain how we have used our funding.  You can find more information about this Department for Education grant here.