SPORTS PREMIUM FUNDING
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Sports Premium Impact 2023-2024
Sports Premium Proposal 2024-2025
The government is providing additional funding to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. This funding, provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, will be allocated to primary school headteachers.
This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools.
Purpose of funding
Schools must spend the additional 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 might include:
- hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports
- coaches to work with primary teachers when teaching PE
- supporting and engaging the least active
- children through new or additional Change4Life clubs
- paying for professional development opportunities for teachers in PE and sport
- providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE and sport
- running sport competitions, or increasing pupils’ participation in the School Games
- buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE and sport
- providing places for pupils on after school sports clubs and holiday clubs
- pooling the additional funding with that of other local schools.
Accountability
From September 2013, schools were held to account over how they spent their additional, ring-fenced funding. Ofsted has strengthened the coverage of PE and sport within the Inspection Framework and supporting guidance so that both schools and inspectors know how sport and PE will be assessed in future as part of the school’s overall provision.
Further information can be found on the DfE Website.