What is the Sports Premium?
The PE and Sport Premium is a government initiative that provides additional funding to primary schools to improve the quality of physical education (PE), physical activity, and sport. The aim is to ensure that all children develop healthy lifestyles and a lifelong love of physical activity. Schools are expected to use this funding to make sustainable improvements to their PE provision, including increasing participation, improving teaching quality, and offering a broader range of activities.
How Much Funding Do We Receive?
Hardwick Green Primary Academy received £18,330 in Primary PE and Sport Premium funding for the 2025-26 academic year. The school spent the full allocation to improve opportunities for physical education, sport and physical activity for all pupils
How We Use the Funding
Our PE and Sport Premium funding was used to:
- Develop staff expertise through professional development and training.
- Increase participation in extra-curricular sport and physical activity.
- Purchase equipment and resources to improve PE provision.
- Maintain membership of the Stockton School Sports Partnership.
- Provide opportunities for pupils to participate in inter-school competitions.
- Enhance swimming provision and water safety outcomes.
- Improve participation and engagement for disadvantaged pupils, girls and pupils with SEND.
These clubs are open to all pupils and help promote physical activity beyond the school day.
Key Priorities and Impact
High-quality PE teaching
We invested in professional development for staff to strengthen the quality of PE provision across the school. This has helped improve staff confidence, subject knowledge and the consistency of PE teaching.
Increased participation in extra-curricular sport
Funding was used to provide a broader range of specialist clubs, including:
- Martial Arts (Yarm Martial Arts)
- Street Dance (DanceFuzion)
- Cycling (Wheel Education)
These opportunities increased pupil participation and enabled more children to engage in activities beyond the traditional sports offer.
Competitive sport
Through our membership of the Stockton School Sports Partnership, pupils participated in a wide range of festivals, competitions and sporting events throughout the year. Hardwick Green attended all available competitions, ensuring pupils had regular opportunities to represent the school and experience competitive sport.
Inclusion
Funding was targeted to support:
- Pupils with SEND
- Disadvantaged pupils
- Girls' participation in sport and physical activity
This helped ensure that all pupils were able to access and benefit from sporting opportunities regardless of background or need.
Swimming and Water Safety Outcomes 2025-26
| Measure | Outcome |
|---|---|
| Pupils able to swim 25 metres competently, confidently and proficiently | 71% |
| Pupils able to use a range of strokes effectively | 76% |
| Pupils able to perform safe self-rescue | 49% |
A significant proportion of funding was invested in additional swimming provision. This investment supported pupils to develop confidence, competence and safety in and around water.
The school invested £4,299 in additional swimming provision and judged the impact on swimming attainment to be positive.