Sidebar

I am trying to add a custom sidebar to my homepage and move away from the woosidebars and other plugins like the such.. they take up a lot of load speed. I added a sidebar in my customized childtheme functions.php and created a new page template for it.. How ever when i place the sidebar where i want it, i have issues getting it to actually show up on the left side of the page .. it shows up at the top of the page above the content.