Primary Sports Premium Grant Funding Update for 2018 / 2019


For the 2017 / 18 academic year, the DfE announced that the Primary PE and Sport Premium Grant would be doubled for each Primary school. It has been confirmed that this formula will remain in place for the 2018 / 19 academic year.


improvements to the quality of PE and sport you offer.


Formula details


Primary Schools with 16 or fewer eligible pupils receive £1,000 per pupil.


Schools with 17 or more eligible pupils receive £16,000 and an additional payment of £10 per pupil.


Schools receive PE and sport premium funding based on the number of pupils in years 1 to 6. In cases where schools do not follow year groups (for example, in some special schools), pupils aged 5 to 10 attract the funding. In most cases, the number of pupils attracting the funding is determined using data from the January 2017 school census. If you are a new school, or a school teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the academic year 2018 to 2019, your funding will be based on data from the autumn 2017 school census. As announced in 2017, reporting on swimming is now a requirement of the grant funding. This information should be displayed on school websites by the end of July for the 2017 / 18 academic year, and the end of March for the 2018 / 19 academic year.


New Swimming Condition


Schools are now required to publish how many pupils within their school are meeting National Curriculum swimming attainment targets.


This is to monitor and tighten compliance with funding requirements. Government research through local intelligence revealed that 50% of Year 6 pupils are still leaving primary education as non-swimmers.


How to use the PE and sport premium


Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable


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This means that you should 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, you can use your funding to:


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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


Government’s Health Approach


CHILDHOOD OBESITY A Plan for Action


Improving the co-ordination of quality


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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


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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


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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


sport and physical activity programmes for schools.


County Sports Partnerships have been asked by Public Health England to work with National Governing Bodies of Sport, the Youth Sport Trust and other national and local providers to ensure that every primary school in England has access to a co-ordinated offer of high quality sport and physical activity programmes, both local and national. As part of this, National Governing Bodies will offer high quality sport programmes to every primary school.


Whilst children spend a significant amount of time in school, keeping children active is a shared responsibility and parents and carers need to play their part. The Sport England Strategy ‘Towards an Active Nation’ (2016) has already set out a major new investment of £40m into projects which offer new opportunities for families and children to get active and play sport together. This investment will focus on helping children acquire a basic level of competence in sport and physical activity as well as supporting them to have fun, regardless of their level of ability.


PHE will continue investing in walking and cycling to school. Walking or cycling to school provides a healthy way to start the day. The Government has committed to producing a Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy. The first strategy will set out plans for investing £300m to support cycling and walking. It will set a clear target to increase the number of children walking to school as well as continued support for Bike ability cycle training for children.


Further information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/ publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan- for-action


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