PE & Sports Development

Physical activity, Physical Education and Sport

Physical activity is at the heart of our culture and ethos across all GLA schools. We are committed to ‘Creating Active Schools’, as we are passionate about physical activity and recognise the positive impact that it has on children’s lives and well-being, physically and mentally.

Physical Education is more than just teaching a PE curriculum; we promote physical activity to nurture individual characters, build self-esteem, problem solve, provide challenge, support positive mental health and wellbeing, as well as teaching skills and knowledge that will help all children succeed in the next stages of their education.

As a GLA school, we offer:

• A Physical Education curriculum which is broad, balanced and opportunity rich, providing equality for all children. Our organised and engaging curriculum helps children develop confidence and a sense of achievement.
• A wealth of enrichment activities, sporting clubs and competitive events to suit the dynamics of our school and needs of our children. As well as increasing access to wider opportunities, we hope that children will appreciate teamwork, experience new opportunities and promote leading a healthy, active lifestyle outside of school.
• A strong network of GLA PE leaders and a PE Trust lead, who work collaboratively to share best practice, organise trust events, ensure up to date research is sustaining high quality PE provision and monitor the use and impact of the Sports Premium. Our PE leaders regularly attend professional development workshops to stay informed about the latest trends and techniques in physical education.
• Professional Partnerships with external sporting organisations and charities, such as Move More, Gloucester School Sports Network and Atlas Camps to enrich the trust’s PE offer. These partnerships have enabled us to offer specialised coaching in sports like gymnastics and tennis, which have been highly popular among our children.

Sports Premium Funding

As part of the Olympics 20122 Legacy, the government has provided additional funding in order to improve the quality of provision of physical education and sport in primary schools to improve the quality of sports and PE for all their children. Funding for schools is calculated by reference to the number of primary-aged pupils (between the ages of 5 and 11), as recorded in the annual schools census in January.

Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this. The money can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools and will be used so that all children have equal benefit regardless of their sporting ability.

All GLA schools closely monitor the provision, spending, implementation and impact of the funding to ensure this additional funding provides maximum impact so children are inspired to be physically active for life.

Please click on the link below to see how this year’s funding is making a difference in our school.

 Sports Premium Review July 2024

Achievements

We are proud holders of the School Games Platinum Award. This a national award first launched in 2012 by the government and national charity Youth Sports Trust. It follows five years of us receiving the Gold Award. It celebrates schools who have shown consistently high-levels of enthusiasm and commitment to school sport. It acknowledges our commitment to engaging a high percentage of pupils in curricular and extracurricular activities, participating in competitions across different sports and reaching out to target groups including young leaders, volunteers, and those previously identified as least-active pupils. It also recognises our close links with local community sports clubs.

Partnerships

Along with other schools in Cheltenham we are members of Move More. A charitable trust that provides primary schools with all aspects of sport from competitions, coaching, heath education, professional development and family engagement. This is funded by part of the sports premium money we receive annually from the Government. We are also committed to a PE Apprenticeship scheme. Through this a young person develops their coaching and leadership skills in a school setting acquiring a national after a year. They support teachers in the class, take small groups and help run after school clubs. Another important role is taking children for Fizzy, a national programme that supports children with improving their fine and gross motor skills.

 We are also members of Cleeve Cluster along with other local feeder schools. This is  run by Cleeve Secondary School. Through both these organisations we enter many and varied competitions. These include traditional sports such as football, tag rugby, netball, hockey, cross country, cricket, swimming and athletics. They also offer more inclusive sports such as indoor kurling, ten pin bowling, kinball, inclusive indoor cricket, orienteering and multi sports.

We are committed to all pupils having the opportunity to represent the school by the time they leave Year 6. Our aim is that all pupils, regardless of ability have the foundations and desire to continue engaging with sport both in and out of school.

Creating Active Schools Award - our progress

CAS case studies for BCPA 2022-23

CAS progress wheels September 2022 and July 2023

Bishop's Cleeve Primary Academy is part of Gloucestershire Learning Alliance, c/o Bishops Cleeve Primary Academy, Tobyfield Road, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 8NN | 01242 358017 | admin@glatrust.org.uk

Gloucestershire Learning Alliance is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England (Company Number 07690119)