Primary PE and Sport Premium – Updates and Guidance


All young people should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives. A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation and is central to meeting the government’s ambitions for a world- class education system.


Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing (increasing self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and lowering anxiety and depression), and children who are physically active are happier, more resilient and more trusting of their peers. Ensuring that pupils have access to sufficient daily activity can also have wider benefits for pupils and schools, improving behaviour as well as enhancing academic achievement.


The School Sport and Activity Action Plan set out government’s commitment to ensuring that children and young people have access to at least 60 minutes of sport and physical activity per day, with a recommendation of 30 minutes of this delivered during the school day (in line with the Chief Medical Officer guidelines which recommend an average of at least 60 minutes per day across the week).


The PE and Sport Premium can help primary schools to achieve this aim, providing primary schools with £320m of government funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered through their core budgets. It is allocated directly to schools, so they have the flexibility to use it in the way that works best for their pupils. The PE and Sport Premium Survey highlighted the significant impact which PE and Sport has had in many primary schools across England.


Ofsted’s new Inspection Framework, which came into effect from September 2019, gives greater recognition to schools’ work to support the personal development of pupils, such as the


Active Lives Survey 2019 / 20


Activity Levels are Worryingly Low for Young People


In December 2018, Sport England published the first ‘Active Lives Children and Young People Report’ which showed that more than a third of children/young people in England do fewer than 30 minutes of physical activity a day. They state that not enough is being done. Urgent change is needed if we’re to increase the activity levels for future generations, and to influence positive health outcomes for the future.


Measuring Activity in Wiltshire and Swindon Schools


Sport England aims to survey 100,000 children and young people in Years 1 to 11 each academic year, of which 1800 are from Wiltshire and


Swindon. The survey is school-based and covers measures of children’s activity levels, physical literacy, swimming proficiency, well-being, self-efficacy and levels of social trust.


All schools will receive a bespoke report from Sport England about their pupils, and credits to exchange for sports equipment. One survey takes 15 minutes to answer on-line, but the results will last for longer. They will influence local decision-making and inform government policy.


This year, a new Healthy Schools Rating can be achieved by schools. Completing the 15-minute teacher survey will generate a bronze, silver or gold award.


Schools are encouraged to take part in the survey, both to access the healthy schools rating scheme and to gain insight into


how their pupils engage with sport and physical activity.


Schools that are selected to take part are contacted by their local Active Partnership (WASP). Schools can also ‘opt in’ to take part in the survey and should contact their Active Partnership if they wish to do this.


While not all schools will be asked to take part in the survey this academic year, we estimate that schools will be asked to take part every three or four years.


We’ve designed the survey to be as easy for schools to administer as possible. The survey can be done at any point in the relevant term, depending on what works best for the school involved.


Active Partnerships will provide schools with everything they need, including templates for


http://www.wiltssport.org/schools-new/active-lives-survey-schools 10 Wiltshire and Swindon Relay


letters to parents, information sheets for teachers and pupils, and technical guidance.


For full details on the Active Lives Survey 2019 / 20 including which schools have been selected to take part and how to ‘opt in’, please visit the WASP website:


opportunities they have to learn about eating healthily and maintaining an active lifestyle. Inspectors will expect to see schools delivering a broad, ambitious education, including opportunities to be active during the school day and through extra-curricular activities. Schools should consider how they use their PE and Sport Premium to support this.


Please find links below for the current terms, conditions and relevant information that local authorities, maintained schools and academies must follow and may find useful with regards to their allocation and spending of the premium for the 2019/20 academic year. Payment dates are listed and are slightly different for LA and maintained schools and academies.


Please note that the premium must be used to fund additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport, for the benefit of primary-aged pupils, in the 2019 to 2020 academic year, to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles.


http://www.wiltssport.org/ get-informed/wasp-news/ 2779-primary-pe-sport-premium- latest-guidelines-and-updates


https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ pe-and-sport-premium-for- primary-schools


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