PE & Sport Premium

Primary PE and Sports funding aims 2024-25

Update sports resources to enable children to experience new sports.
Continue to ensure that a high proportion of pupils’ access competitive inter-school sport.
Increase the quality of PE Lessons so that all pupils access at least 2 hours of quality PE teaching every week.
Implement a highly effective PE assessment system which will deliver and demonstrate the impact of our PE Practice.
Promote physically activity throughout the school day.
Develop staffs’ knowledge and understanding on the teaching and learning of PE.
Staff members to use and assess children using the PE Passport App effectively. Resources supplied for this.

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Primary Schools Sports Funding

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 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 the primary school to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. Each school will receive £16,000 plus an extra £10 per pupil. Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and Sport that is offered. This means it should be used to develop or add to the PE and Sport activities that school already offers. As well as make improvements now that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years.

Purpose of the 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 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
Running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games
Buying quality assured professional development modules or material for PE/sport
Introduce new sports or activities and encourage more pupils to take up sport
Providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and holiday clubs

PE and Sport play a very important part in the life of Fishwick Primary School. Every child has at least two hours per week that is dedicated to physical activity in the curriculum. We believe that physical education and sport contribute to the holistic development of young people and through participation in sport and physical education, young people learn more about key values such as teamwork, fair play and respect for themselves and others.

There is significant evidence to show the positive effects of sport and exercise on children’s physical health, growth and development. Furthermore, sport also provides a healthy environment for young people to learn how to deal with competition and how to cope with both winning and losing.