Hawkedon Primary School

PE & SPORTS GRANT

At Hawkedon, the school community focuses upon developing confident learners. We believe that sports provision adds significantly to children's confidence levels and we encourage children to participate in extra-curricular activities and competitions in addition to their Physical Education (PE) lessons. As a large school with 630 pupils on roll, we have had to consider how we can support our vision of ensuring that children enjoy, participate and learn to love sport and therefore the school has formed a Sports Department to enable our vision to come to reality. The monies received from the PE and Sports Funding Grant contributes to this work. However, financing for effective sports provision at the school far exceeds the school’s sports grant money that we receive.

The school employs 2 sports Learning Support Assistants (LSAs) who work five days a week, afternoons only, to support teachers in lessons. They also organise and deliver clubs on a daily basis as well as organise numerous competitions for the school to participate in, thus helping us to achieve the Gold School Games Mark. Funding is used in addition to the Pupil Premium money to ensure that all disadvantaged children gain free access to all clubs and have priority placement.

Impact of improved provision over the year: 

The impact of the improved sports provision over the year has been great. The school has a reputation in the local area of one that promotes, supports and enters children into many competitions.

Each term there is a range of extra-curricular activities. Children throughout the school from Reception to Year 6 are able to access these clubs.

We enter many local competitions. These events included: football, handball, cricket, gymnastics, multi skills, rugby, dance, cross country and hockey. The school hockey team were winners of the Wokingham competition and went on to represent the borough. Our Year 6 football team won the EFL cup and went on to represent Reading FC at the South of England competition in Birmingham. The school will build on this participation in competitions by organising more inter-house events, as well as competitions within the School Learning Alliance and Orchard Learning Alliance. 

Teachers use the Get Set for P.E scheme to teach PE lessons. Children who are gifted and talented are identified and parents are signposted to clubs outside of school that can support their children.   

Sporting facilities at the school are very good with two multi-use Astroturf pitches, a cricket net, large playing field and halls.