What is the Sports Premium?

The Government is providing £320 million of ‘Sport Premium’ funding per annum (academic year) to primary schools to support the delivery of PE and school sport. This funding will be ring-fenced and Ofsted reports on the expenditure and its impact.
 

All schools with 17 or more primary-aged pupils (5-11yrs) will receive a lump sum of £16,000 plus a premium of £10 per pupil, per annum. The Government are not dictating how schools should spend this money, but are clear that schools will need to employ the strategies that they know will support these pupils to increase their active participation in sports.

Schools should prioritise PE and sports premium spending to improve in the following 5 key areas:

• increasing all staff’s confidence, knowledge and skills in teaching PE and sport
• increasing engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity and sport
• raising 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
• increase participation in competitive sport 

Examples of how these may be achieved include:

• providing staff with professional development, mentoring, appropriate training and resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively to all pupils and embed physical activity across your school.
• embedding physical activity into the school day through encouraging active travel to and from school, active break times and holding active lessons and teaching.
• providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children.
• raising attainment in primary school swimming to meet requirements of the national curriculum before the end of Key Stage 2 - every child should leave primary school able to swim.