Sports Premium
The government has provided funding of £160 million per annum for the academic years 2013/14 through to 2016/7 and now extended for another 2 years to provide new and substantial primary school sport funding. The 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 money can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.
For example, the government guidance says we can use our funding to:
- Provide staff with professional development, mentoring, training and resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively;
- Hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers to enhance or extend current opportunities;
- Introduce new sports, dance or other activities to encourage more pupils to take up sport and physical activities;
- Support and involve the least active children by providing targeted activities, and running or extending school sports and holiday clubs;
- Enter or run more sport competitions;
- Partner with other schools to run sports activities and clubs;
- Increase pupils’ participation in the School Games;
- Encourage pupils to take on leadership or volunteer roles that support sport and physical activity within the school.
Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport you offer.
This means that we can use the premium to:
- Develop or add to the PE and sport activities that our 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.