Click here for the Department of Education link to the Primary School’s Sports Funding page.
What is the Sports Premium?
The Government is providing funding of £150 million per annum to provide ‘new, substantial primary school sport funding’. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children.
The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.
Purpose of Funding
Schools will have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.
Possible uses for 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 materials for PE/sport
- Providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and holiday clubs
- supporting children who cannot yet meet the minimum requirements for KS2 swimming
- Creating opportunities to encourage children to become active throughout the day
You can read our plans to spend our Sports Premium and the underspend from previous years here, along with the evaluation of our spending during the academic year 2021-22 here: Sports Premium 2022
We are delighted to have been awarded the Active Games Mark Silver Award:
You can read the evaluation and amount spent in previous years here:
SP STAR MAT Primary PE & Sport Premium 2020 update Jul
Active Selfies
We have promoted active lifestyles by asking our children to take ‘selfie’ photos of them doing something active. This shows the range of activities that our children do. The best photos have been printed onto large boards for display in school. Which are your favourites?
You can read evaluations of how we have previously spent our Sports Premium funding here:
SP Evidencing the impact 2019 evaluation
PE and Sports Planning 2019-20
PE and school sports planning 2018 – 19