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Sports

Premium

Sport is incredibly important to us, not just because of the healthy benefits for all our pupils, but because it teaches our pupils about resilience, determination and co-operation.

We are passionate about opening our pupils’ eyes to a wide range of sports, which encourage them to enjoy sport and ensure they are active during school and beyond. Highlights from our sports offering include Karate, trampolining, archery and many more; we are determined to continue to offer a wide range of opportunities to our pupils during their time at Preston Hedges.

The school receives additional funding from the government to support children to be more active.

Schools have a duty to report how we have used the Sports Premium funding.

Click here to see the review of the funding for 2023-24

SWIMMING

In July 2024, the percentage of pupils who can:

  • swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres – 87%.
  • use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke] – 72% of pupils had more than two strokes that they could use effectively.
  • perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations – Utlising the Swim England water safety resource,  all of our pupils in Y6 could talk confidently and answer questions about:
    • the hazards they might find in different type of water situations
    • The Water Safety Code
    • How to stay safe on the beach, and what the different flags mean
    • methods of survival including flotation, treading water, signalling, avoiding heat escaping, conserving energy and utilising a huddle if there is more than one person in distress in the water
    • recognising at least 4 indicators of cold water shock

OUR SCHOOL

ASPIRATION FOR ALL

Our bespoke curriculum nurtures aspiration, imagination, moral guidance, fun and creativity.

Alongside academic achievement, this gives every child at Preston Hedges School the opportunity to fulfil their own unique potential.

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school

We have the very highest aims for all of our children and have in place an ambitious school curriculum that challenges our pupils, encouraging them to make connections in learning and enabling them, as they grow, to be critical and evaluative thinkers.

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CREATIVE CURRICULUM

Our bespoke curriculum nurtures aspiration, imagination, moral guidance, fun and creativity.

Alongside academic achievement, this gives every child at Preston Hedges School the opportunity to fulfil their own unique potential. The result? Children at our school consistently outperform their peers – both regionally and nationally – and many go on to win places at the country’s most prestigious secondary settings.

PRESTON HEDGES PRIMARY SCHOOL

Wootton Hope Drive, Wootton Fields, Northampton, NN4 6BU

Registered Office: Wootton Hope Drive, Wootton Fields, Northampton, NN4 6BU. Registration No. 08282041. England & Wales.