PE and Sport Premium

The PE and Sports Premium is additional government funding to enable schools to make improvements in sports provision and support healthy lifestyles. Here at Malmesbury the funding has been used to raise the quality and breadth of PE and sport provision, to enable and encourage all children to participate in, and enjoy, sport.

Our school vision of 'Growing together in wisdom and love; discovering life in all its fullness' is exemplified in our PE provision as we ensure that pupils can participate in a wide range of sports and games, so that they can find what they enjoy and create a positive foundation for a healthy lifestyle.

This year, the grant is being removed by the government from Easter, and replaced with centralised organisation and funding. The statement below details how we used the grant in 2025-26. This year, we will continue to provide similar support until the grant ends.

Malmesbury CE Primary School

PE & Sport Premium: Report for 2025-26

This year an abridged report is published, in line with DfE guidance. The sport Premium will be phased out in the coming year and replaced by alternative systems and more central organisation of inter-school sport.

1. Funding Confirmation

Total Allocation Received: £19,490
Amount carried forward from last year: £0.00
Total budget to spend: £19,490

2. Expenditure Details

Spending Category	Total Spent (£ approx)	Summary of Key Outcome / Impact
Staff Professional Development (CPD)	£965	A subscription to a sports / PE scheme of work supported all staff in planning, preparation and delivery of high-quality lessons. Staff worked alongside specialist tennis coaches with all key stage 2 children, developing their own skills in coaching while supporting the children.
Swimming Upskilling for Staff	£220	Staff attend swimming sessions alongside professional coaches. They are not generally in a teaching role, and coaches are paid separately for this. The cost included here is only for the additional sessions organised for Y6 children to support them in meeting the national minimum expectations.
PE Resources & Equipment	£4650	A wide variety of small PE equipment items were purchased, much of which is ‘consumable’ in the medium term. Other items included a new large PE crash mat and specialist items for sports day team games. Maintenance and refurbishment of PE equipment was a significant cost, including professional inspection of all items, repair of the astroturf play area and the infant circle activity area.
Sports Memberships & Extra-Curriculars	£8,500	Extracurricular weekday and weekend residential visits were organised for children to undertake outdoor and adventurous activities. These were subsidised for all children and more heavily for disadvantaged children. They provided unparalleled personal development for children, particularly the disadvantaged who rarely access such opportunities.
School Games Organiser (SGO) Contribution	£975	The SSCO facilitated a wide range of inter-school tournaments including: gymnastics, cross country, sports leadership for girls, netball, football, rugby, cricket, swimming, multi-sports. The school’s sports coordinator also attended meetings to organise the partnership.
External Coaching & Competitive Events	£4220	Transport to competitive events and the cost of staff cover to facilitate them make up the vast bulk of this expenditure. The number of external tournaments as listed above, meant these costs were significant. Wherever possible transport was shared with another local school.
Total	£19,530.00

3. Targeted Student Demographics

Disadvantaged Pupils & Pupil Premium:
Disadvantaged and pupil premium children were given preferential access to after school sports clubs. Some were also subsidised to support the cost of attending sports clubs. All received substantial support with the cost of outdoor and adventurous activities when these were delivered through residential visits. All costs of participation in inter-school events were met through pupil premium.
Pupils with SEND or Medical Conditions:
Children with a variety of SEND needs were fully accommodated in school sports lessons, clubs, teams, and sports day. This required the provision of additional equipment and staffing.
Girls' Participation Initiatives:
A Girls only football club was run by the school, and a netball club was also reserved exclusively for girls.

The school waived charges for the local girls’ football teams to use our grounds for training.

Girls were selected to be Sports Leaders, championing sport across the school to inspire and assist younger children. These children received a sports leadership course delivered at an external venue by a specialist provider.

4. Partnerships

PE/School Sport Partnerships (e.g., local clusters, active partnerships):
The school participated in a local sports cluster of 10 schools. A large number of inter-school competitions were organised by the sports coordinator, who was jointly appointed by the schools. Sport Premium covered staffing, travel and organisational costs.

5. Year 6 Swimming & Water Safety Data

Percentage who can swim competently over a distance of at least 25 metres: 83 % (National Average 72%)
Percentage who can use a range of strokes effectively (e.g., front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke): 68% (National Average 50%)
Percentage who can perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations: 76% (National average 71%)

Impact: Our swimming programme ran through years 4 to 6 this year, with each class going for half a term. Three professional coaches were employed for each session while school staff were in a support capacity, which makes the programme highly effective. The children were grouped by ability and all made good progress. A number of our children have private swimming lessons and are already experienced when they begin school lessons. However, for our disadvantaged learners this is often their first encounter with swimming lessons and for some of them their first encounter with swimming at all. Additional sessions were also organised during the summer term for children in Year 6 who had not reached the national standard.