The PE and sport premium provides primary schools with £320 million of government funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered through their core budgets.
The funding is allocated directly to schools, so they have the flexibility to use it in the way that works best for their pupils.
Schools receive PE and sport premium funding based on the number of pupils in years 1 to 6. See the allocated funding breakdown here.
How to use the PE and sport premium:
Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvemnets to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport they provide.
The use of the funding is measured against five key indicators:
Engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity, for example by:
- Providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children.
- Encouraging active play during break times and lunchtimes.
- Establishing, extending, or funding attendance of school sports clubs and activities and holiday clubs, or broadening the variety offered.
- Adopting an active mile initiative.
- 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.
The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement, for example by:
- Actively encouraging pupils to take on leadership or volunteer roles that support the delivery of sport and physical activity within the school (such as ‘sports leader’ or peer-mentoring schemes).
- Embedding physical activity into the school day through encouraging active travel to and from school, active break times, and holding active lessons and teaching.
Increasing confidence, knowledge, and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport, for example by:
- 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.
- Hiring qualified sports coaches and PE specialists to work alongside teachers to enhance or extend current opportunities offered to pupils – teachers should learn from coaches the necessary skills to be able to teach these new sports and physical activities effectively.
Broader experience of a range of sports and physical activities offered to all pupils, for example by:
- Introducing a new range of sports and physical activities to encourage more pupils to take up sport and physical activities.
- Partnering with other schools to run sports and physical activities and clubs providing more and broadening the variety of extra-curricular physical activities after school in the 3 to 6pm window, delivered by the school or other local sports organisations.
Increased participation in competitive sport, for example by:
- Increasing and actively encouraging pupils’ participation in the School Games.
- Organising more sport competitions or tournaments within the school.
- Coordinating and entering more sport competitions or tournaments across the local area, including those run by sporting organisations.
Ideas for Schools
During the 2019/20 academic year, London Sport supported four organisations to deliver their sport and physical activity products in several London primary schools.
Watch these videos to see how effective they were, and how they got pupils engaged in activity.
Marathon Kids
Gym Run
Fitt-In
Active Movement
You should NOT use your funding to:
- Employ coaches or specialist teachers to cover planning preparation and assessment (PPA) arrangements – this should be funded from 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 schools, if you are in any doubt as to whether your proposed spending is deemed as capital expenditure, you should first speak with your school business manager or school accountant and their auditors.
Online reporting
- You must publish details of how you spend your PE and sport premium funding by 31 July 2022 at the latest.
- Evidencing the Impact – Reporting Template
- The DfE will randomly monitor a number of schools in each local authority.
Online reporting must clearly show:
- The amount of PE and sport premium received.
- A full breakdown of how it has been spent.
- The impact the school has seen on pupils’ PE, physical activity, and sport participation and attainment.
- How the improvements will be sustainable in the future.
You are also required to publish the percentage of pupils within your year 6 cohort in the 2021 to 2022 academic year who met the national curriculum requirement to:
- Swim competently, confidently, and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.
- Use a range of strokes effectively, for example, front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke.
- Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.
Further Guidance
- Association for PE – Advice on the PE premium
- Full GOV Funding guidance can be found here
More information
For more information on the PE and School Sport Premium, please contact info@londonsport.org
