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Sports Premium
Sports Premium
All young people should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives. sports premium provides 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.
playground equipment with 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
How to use the PE and sport premium
Schools must use the school funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of their physical education (PE), physical activity and sport.
This means that you should use the sports premium to:
- develop or add to the PE, physical activity and sport that your school provides
- build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years with playground equipment
Schools should use the sports premium to secure improvements in the following 4 key indicators.
Engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity, for example by:
- playground equipment providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children
- encouraging active play during break times and lunchtimes
- establishing, extending or funding attendance of school sport clubs and activities and holiday clubs, or broadening the variety offered
- adopting an active mile initiative
- school funding
Funding criteria for sports premium
School Funding
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.
You can access the published allocations for 2019 to 2020 and read the conditions of grant for 2019 to 2020.
The breakdown of funding for the academic year 2018 to 2019 is also available.
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