PE/Sport Primary Premium

How to use the PE and Sport Premium

Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of physical education (PE), physical activity and sport you offer.

This means that you should use the premium to:

• develop or add to the PE, physical activity and sport activities that your school already offers
• build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

For example: 

• Provide staff with professional development, training and resources in order to help them teach PE and physical activity across the school.
• Hire specialist sport coaches to work with and up-skill teachers
• Enter or run sport competitions

With the aim of:

• the engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – the Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that all children and young people aged 5 to 18 engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, of which 30 minutes should be in school
• the 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
• Raise attainment in primary school swimming to meet requirements of the national curriculum before the end of key stage 2
• Embed physical activity into the school day through active travel to and from school, active playgrounds and active teaching

What your funding should not be used for

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 – with the exception of 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

Accountability

Online reporting

You must publish details of how you spend your PE and sport premium funding by the end of the summer term or by 31 July 2019 at the latest. 

Online reporting must include:

• the amount of 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 2018 to 2019 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
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

Attainment data for year 6 pupils should be provided from their most recent swimming lessons. This may be data from years 3, 4, 5 or 6, depending on the swimming programme at your school.

If you require any further information or assistance please contact Northumberland Sport. Amy Scott, Development Officer for Children and Young People, amy.scott@northumberland.ac.uk, 01670 624767.