Sports Premium

Our effective Use of PE Sports Premium Funding

Like all school's, Paddocks Primary School has noticed a significant and ongoing impact on children's physical health and fitness after the effects of the two national lockdowns.  Sports England have noted that just 44.9% of children are active for over 60 minutes a day.  Furthermore, national statistics show that obesity levels in EYFS and Year 6 children have increased by 4.5%. 

As a school dedicated to addressing and meeting the whole needs of a child, Paddocks used its Sports Premium to continue to support children's active participation in physical exercise.  

For the academic year 2024/2025, Paddocks Primary School received approximately £17,650 which we spent to improve, grow and expand our physical education and sport provision in the following ways:

• Membership of the Forest Heath Schools Sports Partnership (FHSSP) which allows us to participate in network events with other schools, whole staff workshops exploring and demonstrating the benefits of an active school environment and the loan of sporting equipment (£825).
• Access to intra-school competitions within the Forest Heath Schools Partnership.  This year, children from Paddocks took part in 18 events, from football to cricket and cross country.  The school's focus is on inclusive sport for all with teams including a diverse range of children (£160).
• Funding Sport Leader UK Playmaker Award training for Year 5.  This is a nationally recognised course from Sports leaders UK which promotes and develops the following skills: leadership, physical activity, literacy.  The Playmaker Award is a great introduction into leadership for pupils and comprised of a six hour course that was delivered during the second half of the Autumn term.  Once the training was completed - Year 5 worked closely together to organise and lead small group activities for KS1 children during their lunch hour.  This highly successful scheme contributed to the good atmosphere and behaviour in the school in addition to ensuring that children had access to engaging sports provision in KS1 during break times (£375).
• A Balanceability course for children in Year One.  A fun and highly accessible scheme which helped young KS1 children in their journey on learning how to ride a bike (£380).  
• A SEND Panathlon event in the Summer term.  This event specifically targeted and engaged young people with SEND in fun athletic and track events with a spirit of light personal competition.  It was highly successful, with children reporting how much they enjoyed it.  Paddocks children also came first place.
• A Mini medics (and mental health) course that was delivered during the Summer term, aiming to train Year 6 children on basic first aid skills.  This was very well received (£360).
• A further expansion of P.E resources, ensuring children have access to a broad spectrum of sports from golf to badminton (£1,541).
• We funded Year Four children's swimming lessons, organised by Vertas (£3,608).
• We contributed towards a level 1/2 Bikeability training course for Year Five and Six children during the summer term which was attended by over 30 students (£540).
• We continued to repair and replace equipment to ensure that children are safe.   
• Membership and access to GetSetForPE - an incredible resource which supports teachers with planning materials for their lessons (£585). 

Impact so far: 

• In July 2025, Paddocks Primary school achieved a platinum School Games Mark.  

For further information on Sports Premium, please click here.  

Swimming at Paddocks Primary School is extremely important to us.  As a life-saving skill we encourage all of our children to achieve the National expectation of 25m unaided swimming.  Our current Cohort of 30 Year Six children (9 girls, 21 boys with 8 on the school’s SEND register), all achieved either the gold or silver swimming award at Newmarket Leisure Centre at the end of their time in Year Four.

Current Year 6 swimming data (measured from their time in Year 4)

Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over distance of at least 25 metres  - 100%

Use a range of strokes effectively - for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke - 84%

Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations - 84%