Welcome the Clifton P.E and Sport Premium Information Page. Here you will find out all about how we are using government funding to support and enhance the lives of our pupils and their families.

Sport @ Clifton - Our Commitment: 

At Clifton, we recognise the contribution of PE to the health and well-being to all of our pupils. We believe that a continued innovative, varied PE curriculum and extra-curricular opportunities has a positive influence on the concentration, attitude and academic achievement of every single learner in our school. Our Primary School PE and Sport Funding will enable us to extend our provision through using the skills of additional sports professionals, entering into a wide variety of competitive sports events and training staff to deliver high-quality PE sessions across the school.

What is the Sports Premium?

The P.E and Sport Premium is designed to help primary schools improve the quality of the P.E and sport activities they offer their pupils. The funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. Schools are to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.

What does Clifton offer for P.E and Sport in order to promote this vision?

Clifton has always been a school that understands the importance of P.E and Sport to our learners and we strive to ensure our pupils experience a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular activities.  

All children are involved in competitive sports as part of P.E lessons, extra-curricular clubs, cluster tournaments as well as Intra-House sports competitions that occur at least once every half-term. For our most able sporting pupils, we encourage them to compete in district events in school time in order for them to be able to showcase their talents and compete against others working at the same level.

Clifton is also an integral part of The Chantry School Primary Schools Sports Partnership. This cluster of  schools has a very clear vision for P.E and Sport which involves increasing the opportunities for competitive sports for all pupils as well as aiming to increase the training opportunities for all staff working within the cluster of schools. 

The cluster action plan is focuses on maintaining the strong sports cluster already in place as well as working together to promote sport and healthy lifestyles to those children in the cluster who are less active.

To read more about the cluster vision - click on the picture:  

Sport Premium Information for 2023-2024 and Historical Information: 

P.E and School Sport Impact Statements:

Links to Government documents linked to Health and Active Lifestyles

Clifton P.E and School Sport: Our Key Focuses 2022-2023

The focus for the P.E and Sports Premium for the next academic year includes the continuation of some priorities from 2022-2023 as well as new areas of focus for 2023 - 2024

Sustainability/Health for Life:

• To continue the school's swimming offer for all pupils from Year 1 to Year 6 including the use of an extra swimming teacher to focus on children in Year 3 who did not progress to Stage 2 in Year 2 and Children in Year 5 who are still at stages 3 or 4
• To redesign and redevelop the school playground in order to install new large equipment to benefit the activity levels of all pupils
• Clifton Young Leaders to have a higher profile within school especially at Lunchtimes and supporting sports events within school
• All pupils to participate in at least two Intra School Sports events throughout the year 
• For  at least 85% of children to participate in an Inter-Schools' Sports competition either through the Chantry Sports Partnership or School Games event. 

Curriculum for Success: 

• To review and embed the school's progression of skills documents for each area of the P.E curriculum to support staff when planning a sequence of learning 
• To audit and review the Dance aspect of the P.E Curriculum In KS2 to ensure coverage and progression of skills are in line with age-related expectations
• To embed the School Swimming Learn to Swim stages to support the planning and assessment of swimming in school

 Staff CPD and Training:

• To provide all staff with a further half term of CPD with a focus on building a clear sequence of learning in line with age related expectations using the Real PE On Demand CPD

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                         How will Clifton measure the impact of the Sports Premium from                                September 2023 – July 2024?

We will look at how well we use our Sport Premium to improve the quality and breadth of PE and sporting provision, including increasing participation in PE and sport so that all pupils develop healthy lifestyles and reach the performance levels they are capable of.

Measuring the impact of the activities provided with sports premium funding can be achieved in different ways. We will look at progress in PE as well as other areas of development such as self-esteem, confidence and the numbers of pupils involved in sporting activities in and out of school. Assessments are made both formally and informally using our school assessment systems as well as feedback from staff and visitors to the school. We will also evaluate the impact of professional development opportunities in improving teaching and learning in PE.

Swimming @ Clifton: Key Information

Swimming is an important skill and can encourage a healthy and active lifestyle. All Local Authority schools must provide swimming instruction either in key stage 1 or key stage 2.

The programme of study for PE sets out the expectation that pupils should be taught to:

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres

• use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]

• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

At Clifton, all pupils from Years 1 to 6 undertake a set of swimming lessons of the course of 10 weeks. Eagles class go in the Autumn Term; Woodpeckers go in the Spring Term and Robins class go in the Summer Term. All swimming sessions are located at Lower Wick Swimming Pool. 

All children are continuously assessed in order to track their progress and grouped accordingly. For those children who have met the required standard of 25m, a course in life-saving and water safety is delivered to enhance their existing skills. 

To find out more about the Learn to Swim Stages and Awards click on the link below:

Swimming @ Clifton Information Page

Year 6 Swimming Results: July 2022 and historical information: