Primary PE and Sport Premium

Page Contents:

How to use the PE & Sport Premium
What to not use your funding for
Reporting
Guidance Links
Guidance Documents & Resources
School Swimming

Schools have a central role to play in supporting all children and young people to live healthy active lives. This is particularly true of primary school where the foundations of positive and enjoyable participation in regular physical activity should be established.

Crucial to achieving this is ensuring that pupils have access to at least 30 minutes of physical activity during the school day, alongside high-quality PE provision taught by confident and knowledgeable teachers and opportunities to experience and participate in a wide range of sports and physical activities. PE and sport premium grant funding should be used by schools towards these aims.

With a recommendation of 30 minutes of this delivered during the school day (in line with the Chief Medical Officers guidelines which recommend an average of at least 60 minutes per day across the week). The Daily Boost can help you achieve this.

The PE and sport premium can help primary schools to achieve this aim, providing primary schools with funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offer in their school.

You should use the PE and sport premium to secure improvements in the following 5 key indicators:

Engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity
Profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement
Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
Increased participation in competitive sport

How to use the PE and Sport Premium

Develop or add to the PE, physical activity and sport that your school provides – see the breadth of programmes that LRS and your SSPAN offer to support you with this, including the Daily Boost, School Games, Fundamental Movement, Active Travel, targeted programmes for inactive young people.

Build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years – see our Level 5 Primary PE Specialism Course which is ran annually.

You should not use your funding to:

Employ coaches or specialist teachers to cover planning preparation and assessment (PPA) arrangements – these should come out of your core staffing budgets.
Teach the minimum requirements of the national curriculum – apart from top-up swimming lessons after pupils' completion of core lessons (or, in the case of academies and free schools, to teach your existing PE curriculum).
Fund capital expenditure – DfE does not set the capitalisation policy for each school – school business managers, school accountants and their auditors are best placed to advise on a school's agreed capitalisation policy.

Reporting

To help you plan, monitor and report on the impact of your spending, partners in the physical education and school sport sector have developed a template. The template is attached and can also be accessed through the Association for PE and Youth Sport Trust websites. It is recommended that the template is used to record your activity throughout the year, as well as for publication at the end of the school year.

Evidencing the Impact of the Primary PE and Sport Premium Template (PDF, 6.9 Mb)

Guidance, Documents & Links

Documents & Resources

Covid-19 and school funding: 7 top tips for spending the Primary PE and Sport Premium (PDF, 806 Kb)
GOV.UK (PDF, 341 Kb)
5 Key Indicators (PDF, 1.9 Mb)
Dos and Donts (PDF, 2.5 Mb)
Poster Physical Literacy (PDF, 667 Kb)
Primary School Physical Literacy Framework to help support primary schools to develop the physical literacy of all their pupils.
Ofsted Inspections & the Primary PE and Sport Premium (PDF, 1.6 Mb)
Poster Professional Learning (PDF, 742 Kb)
Maximising the Primary PE and Sport Premium through effective professional learning and how to review your professional learning culture.
Primary PE and Sport Premium FAQs (PDF, 3.7 Mb)
Developing whole child (PDF, 740 Kb)
Designing curriculum (PDF, 1.5 Mb)
KS1,2 PE expectations (PDF, 2.8 Mb)
Definition of PE,SS,PA (PDF, 2.8 Mb)
School Inspection Handbook (PDF, 558 Kb)
Ofsted Inspections & the Primary PE and Sport Premium (PDF, 1.6 Mb)
Physical Education Programmes of Study: Key Stages 1 and 2 (PDF, 112 Kb)
Physical education programmes of study: key stages 1 and 2- National curriculum in England.
afPE Example Template Indicator (PDF, 932 Kb)
Governance Handbook (PDF, 1.7 Mb)
CIMSPA Guidance Fact Sheet (PDF, 161 Kb)

Raising attainment in Primary School Swimming

You can also use the PE and sport premium to provide additional top-up swimming lessons to pupils who have not been able to meet the 3 national curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety - after the delivery of core swimming and water safety lessons.

You are required to publish information on the percentage of pupils in year 6 who met each of the 3 national curriculum requirements. Further details are in the online reporting section of this guidance.

Further information on training and resources, including advice on the use of the PE and sport premium, is available from Swim England.