PE and Sport Premium
The Curriculum
All pupils have access to a broad PE curriculum. This is supplemented by a large range of enrichment activities.
The school holds an annual day of sport where specialist coaches come into to deliver a range of activities.
The school holds an annual village run where all pupils from year 2 upwards complete a cross country course around the village. This is extremely well supported by the village community.
Competitions
The school takes part in a range of inter and intra school competitions however the main aim is for pupils to improve their fitness, improve their competency and also ENJOY sport.
Dearham Primary School holds a sports day for all pupils from nursery upwards.
Gymnastics
The school employs a specialist gymnastics teacher and all pupils from year 2 upwards have access to high quality gymnastics teaching. Dearham Primary School consistently performs well in county gymnastics events.
Swimming
The national curriculum requirements for swimming in Year 6 are that:
- Children are able to carry out safe self rescue
- Children can swim competently and efficiently over a distance of 25m.
- Children can use a range of strokes.
At Dearham children undertake swimming lessons in a block of one week of lessons in the autumn term.
- In the 2023-24 academic year 71% of children met this standard.
- In the 2022 – 23 academic year 77.8% of the children met this standard.
Cross Country
The school holds a weekly cross country event for year 2 pupils onwards. We have strong links with Netherhall Sports Centre.
Sports Funding
The sports funding this year is being used to:
- Enhance our gymnastics provision.
- Develop our inter school sports provision
- Develop physical activity through forest school provision
