PE & School Sports Grant

The purpose of the ‘Sports Premium’ is to provide schools with additional money to improve the provision of P.E. and school sport. Schools have been given the freedom to choose how they do this.

At Christ Church we are committed to ensuring our children understand the importance of being active, having a healthy lifestyle and enjoy sports and games activities. We place the highest importance on personal health and recognise the significant contribution PE makes to it.  Every year one of the Key Priorities on our School Development plan is centred on improving fitness and participation in sports.  

Our curriculum ‘drivers‘: ‘Happiness and Well-being’ and ‘Outdoor Education’, and our School Council support our planning and delivery of an innovative and varied PE curriculum. We believe that the breadth of our PE and school sports curriculum and extra-curricular opportunities provides opportunities for engagement and enjoyment which in turn have a positive influence on the concentration, attitude and academic achievement of our children.

We are a ‘Primary Stars’ school, partnering with Shrewsbury Town Football Club to use sport to improve standards across the curriculum.  This partnership means that alongside specialist sports coaching, teaching staff also receive high quality training enabling them to deliver high quality PE.

We are a Daily Mile school: we used a grant given through ‘Sugar Tax’ funding to build a dedicated track around our school field and all children run for at least 15 minutes a day.  We take fitness assessment as seriously as reading and writing assessment and carry out beginning and end of year assessments which measure agility, strength and endurance.

We have a School Games ‘Platinum Award’ which was given in 2025 and is a sign that our sports ‘offer’ is of the highest quality.  This is an independently audited way of measuring the depth and breadth of our PE curriculum.

Current Year

You can find details of how we spent our PE and Sports Grant in 2024-25 and our plans for 2025-26 by clicking here: Sports Premium Overview 2024-25 – Looking Ahead to 25-26

Swimming

In 2024-2025 17/18 (94%) Y6 children have achieved the National Curriculum target for swimming. This has been due to smaller and more intense swimming lessons.

Wider Participation

The impact of participation in wider sporting opportunities cannot be underestimated.  As well as the pride, confidence, self-esteem and skills which grow by taking part, there are also social skills such as getting on with others from a different school, meeting new people, being confident in a new environment and listening to instructions from different adults.  As a small school, a significant amount of our grant goes into being part of a wider School Partnership so that our children can all participate in these opportunities.  We may be a small school but through the partnership our children have access to a wide range of sports and competitions.