Sport Premium

How Much Does Gospel Oak Receive and will it continue? Schools with 17 or more eligible pupils receive £8,000 and an additional payment of £5 per pupil. Therefore £8, (pupils in y1-6) x £5 = £9800 per year Government is spending over £450 million on this funding over the 3 academic years 2013 to 2014, 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to March 2014 conservative manifesto pledged to continue funding to “We will go further, supporting primary school sport with £150 million a year, paid directly to head- teachers, until 2020”. Firm Ofsted guidance to investigate Sport Premium money is being spent appropriately. However, little evidence of this happening in the last 10 Camden Ofsted reports.

What Should Schools Spend Their Allocation on? 1.Provide professional learning opportunities for your school staff; 2.Organise more sports competitions or make participation in the sports competitions accessible to more children; 3.Organise activities that promote health and well-being, particularly involving the least active children; 4.Hire specialist PE teachers (latest government guidance Oct 15 now explicitly forbids this as being an unsustainable use of the money); 5.Hire qualified specialist sports coaches to work alongside teachers to deliver physical education, or to deliver extra-curricular activities; and 6.Provide existing staff with teaching resources to help them teach PE and sport.

1. Provide professional learning opportunities for your school staff Nathan Pallas completed FA level one football course. TAs attended Playground Games training. Year 5 teachers worked with Place specialists on dance projects Jef attended London Sports conference at Lords.

2. Organise more sports competitions or make participation in the sports competitions accessible to more children We entered every high level CSSA sports competition possible – the most of any school in the borough (click here for participation schedule). (click here for participation schedule). In year 1 we joined the Primrose Hill Sports Partnership. This was a local initiative whereby 7 local primary schools met half-termly to participate in an all day sports competition. 5 different classes (150 children) took part. In year 2 we set up sports afternoons with Rosary school where all year 3, 4 and 5 classes competed in 4 different sports. We increased the number of “friendly” matches and attended every available Wednesday after-school sports participation event at Talacre sports centre.

3. Organise activities that promote health and well-being, particularly involving the least active children; Year 1 ran Change4Life club until support withdrawn. Targeted new Multi-Sports Clubs at least active children. Increased capacity at girls football club to include all children who showed an interest. Ice skating trip for girls that show enthusiasm or increased participation. Circus skills workshops booked for all classes. Used PE survey results to offer free sports clubs vouchers to 45 children.

KS2 PE Survey February 2015PE Survey 59% of children reported PE as their favourite subject. Least favourite: 3 boys, 4 girls - 1.6%. Click here for full survey results

KS2 PE Survey February 2015PE Survey Self reported as below average ability: 7 boys, 16 girls. Three of these indicated PE as their least favourite subject but conversely four as their favourite subject. 19 children reported doing no physical activity whatsoever outside school regularly every week (including going to the park/playground!). 76% boys (91) self reported as above average fitness, 45% girls (54). True figures (top 3 rd MSFT): 45% boys (56), 20% girls (24). Games most popular area of PE, followed closely by swimming.

4. Hire specialist PE teachers; Now 5+ Camden schools employ a PE specialist teacher. Now 15+ Camden schools employ a cheaper sports coach or TA for PE lessons (neither with QTS). Baroness Sue Campbell (chair YST) explicitly warns against using Sports Premium money for this. 23 years ago Gospel Oak was way ahead of the curve in being the first Camden primary school to employ a PE specialist teacher to cover PPA time. As such, Sports Premium funding can be utilised to enhance and build upon already existing high quality PE provision.

5. Hire qualified specialist sports coaches to work alongside teachers to deliver physical education, or to deliver extra- curricular activities. Sports Premium part funding Dance specialist to work with year 3 and Reception. Gymnastics training provided for year 3 teacher. Sport Premium funding (or subsidising) all sports clubs. Every week, approximately 140 children (half of them girls) attend one of the eleven before or after-school sports clubs in: Gymnastics, Football, Basketball, Tennis, Street Dance or Multi- Sports.

6. Provide existing staff with teaching resources to help them teach PE and sport. Gymnastics equipment renewed and made mobile/accessible to EYFS and KS1 lessons. New EYFS curriculum resources being introduced. Offer team teaching opportunities.

Excellence Current winners of the Camden School and Community Games Award (3 rd, 1 st, 1 st previous three years). This is the hardest to win and most prestigious category at the annual Camden Active Schools Awards. Click here for School and Community Games Criteria.Click here for School and Community Games Criteria. Click here for SCG results sheet xls

Excellence In 2015 the Gospel Oak girls football team won the FA Inner London U11 Cup. (Click here for video). (Click here for video). They went on to represent Inner London in the FA South East Regionals (against county winning school teams from as far afield as Norfolk and Kent) losing 1-0 to the eventual winning school at the UK finals. (Click here for video). (Click here for video).

Excellence - School Games Teams

Participation Participation rates already high – click here for video of 150 GO children at CSSA X-country 2015 click here for video of 150 GO children at CSSA X-country 2015 Sports Premium allows almost no financial constraints to improving participation rates. The main limiting factors are now lack of hall space for additional clubs and lack of additional competition opportunities beyond the CSSA (which Camden are pledging to increase). The focus is now to find creative ways of increasing participation (especially amongst target groups) such as lunchtime activities in the playground (especially KS1). Below - dynamo club members at Dodgeball tournament March 2015.