Pe and Sport Premium
The Government gives substantial primary school sport funding. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and ensures money goes directly to primary school Headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. The purpose of the funding is that schools spend the sport funding in order to improve their provision of PE and sport, but they have the freedom to choose how they do this.
This means that schools use the premium to:
- Develop or add to the PE 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
There are 5 key indicators that schools should expect to see improvement across:
- 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
For example, schools can use their 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
- Provide additional swimming provision targeted to pupils not able to meet the swimming requirements of the national curriculum
- Embed physical activity into the school day through active travel to and from school, active playgrounds and active teaching
Allocation
Funding for schools will be calculated by the number of primary aged pupils (between the ages of 5 and 11) as at the annual census in January.
Funding Period
The sport funding will be paid for the academic year 2024/25.
Accountability
Schools will be held to account for how they spend the sport funding. Ofsted has strengthened its coverage of sport and PE, so that schools and inspectors know how sport and PE will be assessed in future as part of the school’s overall provision offered. Ofsted assesses how primary schools use the primary PE and sport premium. They measure its impact on pupil outcomes, and how effectively governors hold school leaders to account for this.
The Leadership Team at Minworth School regularly monitor and assess the impact of the funding and report back to the Governing Body.
Spending:
The school received a grant of consisting of £16,000 standard grant plus £10 per pupil for primary school sports in the academic year. We used the funding to support the provision of improved quality of sports and PE for all pupils.
Pupil Premium Planning and Evaluation Tools:
Sport's Premium 2023-24, including impact
Sport's Premium 2022-23 including impact