Primary PE & Sport Premium

The PE and sport premium defines the £320 million of government funding provided to primary schools to support them with making sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered through their core budgets.

About the PE and sport premium

Into its tenth year, the Primary PE and Sport Premium supports schools to ensure equal access, support all pupils to be active for 60 minutes a day and ensure the delivery of two hours of quality PE for all pupils.

You can read the full guidance, including examples of how to and how not to spend your premium, on the DfE website.

School governor’s play a crucial role in ensuring accountability and effective use of the funding specific to the context of their school. The Department for Education (DfE) and the Local Government Association (LGA), have created a monitoring tool which sets out areas of focus for governing boards evaluating PE and sport premium spending decisions. You can find it here.

Additionally, the Youth Sport Trust has a range of practical tools to help you navigate the funding including our Primary Membership offer which, this year, has many elements specifically aimed at the application and reporting requirements of the premium.

In September 2023, the DfE, AfPE, and Youth Sport Trust held a webinar which outlined changes to the Primary PE and Sport Premium guidance and reporting procedures for 2023/24. The video is available to watch here, and slides from the session can be downloaded here.

An updated FAQs document, published January 2024, is available here.

Planning your PE and sport premium spend

Ensure your action planning is clear and follows these steps...

Intent - Take stock and be clear on your current position. Consider impact to date, review data that has been collected, and agree the issues and challenges you still need to overcome.

Implementation - What actions, approaches and interventions are you going to invest in to meet your key indicator objectives? Be targeted and clear on the measures of success.

Impact - Ensure you have what you need to demonstrate success. This might include revisiting baselining, using whole school data or qualitative measures such as images or videos.

Improvements and clear objectives should align with the five key indicators which are listed below. Here you can also download our toolkits for each key indicator, which contain guidance and review tools for sustaining the impact of the funding.

  1. Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
  2. Engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity
  3. The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement
  4. Broader experience of a range of sports and physical activities offered to all pupils
  5. Increased participation in competitive sport

Please log in or register for a free Youth Sport Trust account to download the toolkits.

Helpful resources from YST

Membership

Our membership offer is designed to provide experienced PE teachers and new practitioners with structured support and professional development to ensure that your PE, School Sport and Physical Activity (PESSPA) offer is focussed and effective.

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Key indicator top tips

Brought to us by our friends at Complete PE, these posters give some quick and effective ideas per Key Indicator, for achieving your Primary PE & Sport Premium targets.

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The PE Life Skills Award

The PE Life Skills Award allows teachers to formally recognise pupils’ learning through evidence-based assessment in the PE curriculum. This includes their progress in the physical aspects of PE and their social, cognitive and emotional development too. For pupils, it gives purpose to their learning and helps them to value PE and develop a positive relationship with physical activity that will stay with them long into the future.

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Primary CPD 2023-24

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My Personal Best

Based on the multi-ability model that identifies five types of ability (or learning domains), My Personal Best focuses on 24 specific, non-physical life skills. These skills are developed through physical activities and contribute to each of the five abilities. This supports the personal development and physical literacy journey of all pupils.

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