What is Sports Premium?
The Government has invested on an annual basis £150 million per annum to provide 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. These monies 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:
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Hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE
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New or additional sport clubs
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Purchasing new equipment to support new initiatives
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Paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport
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Providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport
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Running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games
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Funding coaches for children to take part in intercounty events
Further information about the funding can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pe-and-sport-premium-for-primary-schools
Swimming (see swimming data for end of KS2 below)
Swimming is the only sport to be included within the national curriculum physical education programme of study. All primary schools must provide swimming and water safety lessons in either Key Stage 1 or 2.
Each pupil is required to be able to do the following:
- Perform safe self-rescue in different water based situations
- 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.
Please see the documents below for details of our PE funding.
