P.E and Sports Premium Funding
Academic year 2025-2026 – Total funding allocated £19,620
Background
The Primary PE and Sport Premium is additional government funding provided to maintained schools and academies with primary-aged pupils to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of physical education, school sport and physical activity.
For schools with 17 or more eligible pupils, the funding allocation is £16,000 plus £10 per eligible pupil (Years 1 to 6). Schools with 16 or fewer eligible pupils receive £1,000 per eligible pupil.
Schools determine how best to use this funding to improve the quality of PE, physical activity and sport, with the aim of increasing participation, promoting healthy and active lifestyles, and ensuring that improvements are sustainable beyond the funding itself.
A key priority is developing the confidence, knowledge and skills of teachers through high-quality professional development, mentoring, training and access to specialist expertise. This helps ensure that improvements in PE teaching and learning are embedded and continue to benefit pupils over time.
From government guidance (PE and Sport Premium in Primary Schools), updated October 2023, schools must use the PE and sport premium to:
- build capacity and capability in the school and make sure that improvements made to the quality of PE, sport and physical activity provision now are sustainable and will benefit pupils joining the school in future
- develop or add to the PE, sport and physical activity that the school provides.
Schools can also:
- embed physical activity into the school day by encouraging active travel to and from school and having active break times
- provide targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children
- help to provide equal access for all pupils to the range of sports and physical activities that the school offers
Schools can also use the PE and sport premium to raise attainment in primary school swimming and water safety by funding top-up swimming sessions for those pupils that do not meet national curriculum requirements after they’ve completed core swimming lessons.
2025-2026 – Funding was used on the following:
- Lunchtime Sports Provision to assist with embedding physical activity at lunchtimes on the playground – increased range of activities at lunchtimes
- Some subsidies for After School Sports Clubs during the year – saw more children taking part in clubs
- Equipment for PE lessons and lunchtime sporting activities – got more children active at lunchtimes
- Additional swimming lessons for Year 4 children – increased swimming proficiency
- Provision of PE sessions for children with SEN led by an external provider to focus on fine and gross motor skills – developing staff to be able to lead sessions in the future
Our online review of spending has been submitted online to the Department for Education at the end of the school year and can be reviewed here.
2026-27 Plans for Any Transitional Funding
The current Primary PE and Sport Premium is being phased out as part of the Government’s new approach to PE and school sport. Transitional funding will continue while the new PE and School Sport Partnerships Network is introduced, with the new arrangements expected to be fully operational from Spring 2027.
Swimming Proficiency
Additional support in lesson for our swimmers to ensure a higher proportion can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres are also being planned for any Year 3 children who require it for routine curriculum lessons and to also provide more intensive tuition within lessons. There has been a decline in swimming proficiency on entry to school since COVID.
Extra-Curricular Activities
We have a range of after school activities provided by school staff and J&J Sports. We have a girl’s football team who will compete in leagues and tournaments.
Physical Literacy
Upskilling staff to be competent in delivering this program to our SEN children to support with development of fine and gross motor skills over the coming years.
