PE and Sports Premium Funding 2025-2026
The school received Department for Education PE and Sports Grant Funding in the amount of £16,360 for the 2025-2026 academic year. This funding is allotted to address the improvement of children’s healthy lifestyles, with provision also made towards promoting other aspects of learning that impact upon health and well-being.
Linden Lodge School utilises this funding in line with the Department for Education Guidance, which is to:
- Develop or add to the PE, physical activity and sport activities;
- Build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years.
At Linden Lodge School our diverse pupil population means that pupils need access to Sports and physical activities in highly differentiated ways often through inter-disciplinary approaches including teachers working alongside habilitation officers and therapists. We pride ourselves on our outstanding facilities and regard PE and Sports as part of our core curriculum offer.
We have utilised the funding to contribute to five specific areas:
- Increase all staff’s confidence, knowledge and skills in teaching PE and sporting activities
- Increase all pupils’ engagement in regular physical activity and sporting activities
- Raise the profile of PE and sport across the school, to support whole school improvement
- Offer a broader and more equal experience of a range of sports and physical activities to all pupils, and ensure equal access to sport for boys and girls
- Increase participation in competitive sport
Impact on students’ participation and attainment in PE and sport:
- Through the implementation of specialist adaptive equipment, our students are able to develop a variety of new transferable skills, when participating within PE and sporting activities.
- Our work with external sports organisations and coaches, has enabled further opportunities for our students to extend their knowledge and skills within sporting activities. Furthermore, our links with the coaches has given our students opportunities to participate within sporting events within the local and wider sporting community.
- Through specialist CPD, our PE team have increased their knowledge and skills within teaching PE and sporting activities, ensuring the offer to our students is of a high level and fully inclusive.
We will sustain this improvement by continuing to invest within the following areas:
- Staff CPD.
- Implementation of adaptive equipment and sporting activities.
- Regular maintenance of specialist sporting equipment and infrastructure.
- To continue to work with specialist external sports organisations.
- To continue to attend specialist sporting events at local, regional and national levels.
The use of the funding in line with DfE Guidelines, and impact of this funding, is monitored through school governance and Southfields MAT trustees.
Swimming Proficiency
Evidence of Impact in End of Year data analysis. This is moderated data which is externally evaluated by Trustee Meetings and Full Governing Body Meetings.
Department for Education (DfE) National Curriculum requirements for Swimming Context:
Linden Lodge School is a day and residential special needs school for children and young people with sensory impairments. The 4 pupils in Year 6 are identified with SEN across all four categories of need. The national requirements defined by the DfE are not adapted to the context of this school. Swimming is on the timetable for all year 6 pupils, and we recognise the progress and developments each pupil in year 6 has made towards strengthened confidence within a swimming pool.
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Total Number of Pupils in Year 6: |
6 |
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% of pupils who can swim competently, confidently, and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres: |
0% |
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% of pupils who use a range of strokes effectively: |
0% |
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% of pupils who perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations: |
0% |