Sports Premium Funding
What is the 'Sports Premium'?
The government provided funding of £150 million per annum to provide new and substantial primary school sport funding. The funding was jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, with the money going directly to primary school Head teachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. Each school received £8,000 plus an extra £10 per pupil each year for the two years.
Schools have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they have the freedom to choose how they do this. Possible uses of the funding include:
• Hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE
• New or additional Change4Life sport clubs
• Paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport
• Providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport
• Running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games
• Buying quality assured professional development modules or material for PE/sport
• Providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and residential visits.
The school is required to publish annually how the funding has been spent and what the impact of this spending has been.
More information about this can be found by clicking on this link https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pe-and-sport-premium-for-primary-schools