Since 2013, the government has provided additional funding of £150 million per annum to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. This funding is ring-fenced which means it can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools. Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.
The amount given to each school depends on the number of children that we have in class from Reception to year 6. These rules are set by government and do change over time.
This funding is direct to schools to be spent with the following aims:
- Increasing participation rates in such activities as games, dance, gymnastics, swimming and athletics.
- Increasing participation and success in competitive school sports.
- Making the physical education curriculum more inclusive.
- Expanding the growth in the range of traditional and alternative sporting activities.
- Improving partnership work on physical education with other schools and other local partners.
- Finding links with other subjects that contribute to pupils’ overall achievement and their greater social, spiritual, moral and cultural skills.
- Making pupils more aware of the dangers of obesity, smoking and other such activities that undermine pupils’ health.
