Primary PE Premium Strategy and Report

What is PE and Sports Premium Funding?

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 students and schools, improving behaviour as well as enhancing academic achievement.

Primary PE and Sport Premium is an initiative that aims to help increase and improve the PE and sporting opportunities for children. It was first provided in the 2013/14 academic year and the current government has pledged to continue this funding until August 2024.

PE and Sport Premium funding is provided jointly by the Department for Education, the Department for Health and Culture and the Department for Media and Sport.  It is allocated to primary schools and is ring-fenced, meaning that it can only be spent on the provision of PE and sport.

The Government believes that schools should decide how to use the funding for PE and Sports. They are held accountable for the decisions they make through:

• The performance outcomes of all students compared with their peers.
• The Ofsted inspection framework, under which inspectors focus on the attainment of student groups, in particular in those areas where specific funding has been provided.
• The reports that schools are required to publish online for Parents (see documents within this section of the website).

All primary schools receive a lump sum of £16,000 plus £10 per student aged 5 or over on roll.  Here at Eastbrook Primary School we used the funding effectively to ensure that standards of learning and achievement in PE and Sports are raised, with all children, regardless of their background, engaging in physical activity as part of the curriculum and extra-curricular provision. 

PE and Sports Premium Funding at Eastbrook

The documents contained within this page show how our funding has been spent and how we plan to spend the latest allocation of PE and Sports Premium funding.