It is our vision that all of our children will leave Brighton Avenue Primary School physically literate and with the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.
This strategy aims to engage all children in high quality physical education, physical activity and school sports as part of their school life and kick-start healthy active lifestyles for children and families within the school community.
PE and sport have an important role to play in raising standards and narrowing the achievement gap. Research has shown how placing PE and sport at the heart of a broad and balanced curriculum can improve attendance, behaviour and attainment. PE and sport build self-esteem, teamwork and leadership skills. They are also important because they can help build an inclusive society, raise levels of participation in sport after young people leave school and positively affect the health of the nation.
For a number of years, the government has provided funding to schools to improve the provision of physical education and sport in primary schools. The funding is ring-fenced and, therefore, can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools. The funding each school receives is linked to the number of primary aged children between the ages of 5 and 11 years.
Schools must spend this additional funding on IMPROVING their provision of PE and sport, yet each school has the freedom to choose how to do this and examples of effective use of PE and sport funding have been identified by Ofsted.
In 2025 - 2026, the school received £19,710 Sports Premium funding.
In addition, we aim to:
Details of the Sports Premium spending for 2023-24, the impact of this and the sustainability can be found below in our PE plan.
Continuous Professional Development
All teachers benefited from working with expert coaches where they observe model lessons and team teach areas they feel that they could be supported with further. Schemes of work are being used regularly to develop lesson sequencing and enhance teaching ideas. Staff have completed evaluation forms with very positive feedback; they have noted the impact this support continues to have on their development.
Throughout the academic year, children will have participated in a wide range of different inter and intra School sports competition. From EYFS to Y6, our children compete regularly against cluster schools in, at the very least, one sport. This also supports the transition process for our Year 6 pupils who have the opportunity to meet and compete with children that they will later be attending Kingsmeadow Secondary School.
Increased after School Club Activities
At Brighton Avenue Primary School, we are supporting the PE curriculum’s aim to ensure that more children are active in their lives. We are seeking to ensure that every child can find a physical activity or sport that they are interested in and offering them opportunities to try new sports in the hope that this will encourage them to be active outside of school. Brighton Avenue Primary School aims to provide our children with the opportunity to experience something that may be beyond their usual experience, for example: tri-golf, multi-sports, archery, dance and football. Physical activity is offered during our wrap around care, led by our qualified staff and these activities vary each week. We currently have a Karate coach delivering high quality lessons to our children each week which also provides a strong community link to other clubs outside of school.
Brighton Avenue Primary School has been awarded 'Diamond' status, in the Gateshead SSP ‘Blazing The Trail’ Kitemark initiative, for attaining all seven value marks. The programme is built on various opportunities linked to the curriculum while also reflecting the 7 Olympic and Paralympic values.
In addition, we have received the platinum award for the Sainsbury’s School Games Mark, for the first time in our schools History, developed to celebrate schools who are improving the health and wellbeing of pupils, creating sport and physical activity opportunities and being a great community school. We have exceptionally worked hard to encourage children to embrace a culture of exercise, physical activity and healthy eating.
Swimming Data from previous cohort – 2024/2025
What percentage of your Year 6 pupils could swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance
of at least 25 metres when they left your primary school at the end of last academic year?
51%
What percentage of your Year 6 pupils could use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl,
backstroke and breaststroke] when they left your primary school at the end of last academic year?
97%
What percentage of your Year 6 pupils could perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
when they left your primary school at the end of last academic year?
74%
Schools can choose to use the Primary PE and Sport Premium to provide additional provision for swimming
but this must be for activity over and above the national curriculum requirements. Have you used it in this
way?
Yes we have. Our local swimming pool re-opened in January 2024. We now have our Year 6 cohort attending lessons each week and this will continue all academic year.
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