PE Strategy
At Jewell Academy, we remain committed to delivering a high-quality Physical Education curriculum that promotes lifelong participation in physical activity and supports pupils in leading healthy, active lifestyles. Building on our strong foundations, our strategy for 2025–2026 focuses on inclusivity, staff development, and increasing opportunities for all pupils to engage in sport and physical activity.
Over the past academic year, we have successfully expanded our extracurricular provision, offering 29 after-school clubs and enabling pupils to participate in a wide range of competitive and non-competitive sporting opportunities, including 13 Dorset School Games events. We have also strengthened teaching through targeted CPD, enhancing high quality teaching in key areas such as dance and striking and fielding activities. Our swimming programme has demonstrated measurable success, with a significant proportion of pupils who previously lacked confidence in the water going on to achieve key national curriculum outcomes.
Moving forward, our strategy prioritises widening participation, particularly for pupils with SEND and those eligible for Pupil Premium, ensuring that all children have equitable access to clubs, competitions, and enrichment opportunities. We aim to further promote the importance of physical activity and healthy lifestyles across the school, fostering greater awareness and engagement among pupils.
To support sustained improvement in teaching quality, we will implement a structured programme of whole-school PE CPD, delivered each half term, alongside targeted support to build staff confidence in areas such as gymnastics. Through these actions, we will continue to provide engaging, inclusive, and high-quality PE experiences that enable every pupil to develop physical competence, confidence, and a lifelong appreciation for health and wellbeing.
Please click the button below to view our impact and spending report which evidences the impact of the PE and Sport Premium.
PE and Sports Premium Evidencing Impact Report 2024-2025
Swimming 24/25
| Target | % |
| Swim competently, confidently, and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres | 59% |
| Use a range of strokes effectively (for example front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke) | 66% |
| Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations | 61% |
Meeting National Curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety.
Priority should always be given to ensuring that pupils can perform safe self-rescue even if they do not fully meet the first two requirements of the National Curriculum programme of study.
Question |
Stats |
FURTHER CONTEXT (RELATIVE TO LOCAL CHALLENGES) |
| What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres? | 66% | A large number of children were considered to be non-swimmers at the beginning of year 5. After the children’s swimming lessons in Y5, 35% of children could swim 25m. This figure has now raised to 66% following our booster swimming lessons. |
| What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort can use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke]? | 66% | After the children’s swimming lessons in Y5, 42% of children could use a range of strokes effectively. This figure has now raised to 66% following our booster swimming lessons. |
| What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort are able to perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations? | 66% | After the children’s swimming lessons in Y5, 50% of children could use a range of strokes effectively. This figure has now raised to 66% following our booster swimming lessons. |
| If your schools swimming data is below national expectation, you can choose to use the Primary PE and sport premium to provide additional top-up sessions for those pupils that did not meet National Curriculum requirements after the completion of core lessons. Have you done this? | YES | |
| Have you provided CPD to improve the knowledge and confidence of staff to be able to teach swimming and water safety? | NO | Our Year 5 and 6 staff members were present during all lessons and were able to observe how swimming was taught and how lessons were conducted by professional swimming instructors. |