Primary School Sport Premium Funding
Using your PSSP funding
Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport they offer.
This means that schools should use the premium to:
- Develop or add to the PE and sport activities that your school already offers
- Build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years
There are 5 key indicators that schools should expect to see improvement across:
- The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – the Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that all children and young people aged 5 to 18 engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, of which 30 minutes should be in school
- The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement
- Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
- Broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
- Increased participation in competitive sport
DfE Guidance
PE and Sport Premium: Conditions of grant funding 2019-20
The updated guidance includes:
- Change in reporting date (schools must now report on their Primary PE and Sport Premium spend by 31st July 2020)
- Clarification on role of the Primary PE and Sport Premium to support school swimming
- Importance of ensuring the funding is utilised in a sustainable manner (review/plan/implement)
- Funding allocation and payment dates
Evidencing the Impact – Accountability
Maintained schools, including those that convert to academies, MUST publish, on their website, information about their use of the Primary PE and Sport Premium.
Schools should publish:-
- the amount of Primary PE and Sport Premium received
- a full breakdown of how it has been spent (or will be spent)
- what impact the school has seen on pupils’ PE and sport participation and attainment
- how the improvements will be sustainable in the future
- Schools should also consider how their use of the Primary PE and Sport Premium is giving pupils the opportunity to develop a healthy, active lifestyle
- swimming data
The Department for Education has stipulated that schools must now report on their Primary PE and Sport Premium spend by 31st July 2020.
Accountability – Ofsted inspections
Ofsted will assess how primary schools use the primary PE and sport premium. They will measure its impact on pupil outcomes, and how effectively governors hold school leaders to account for this. Further guidance around what inspectors look for can be found in the ‘effectiveness of leadership and management’ section of the Ofsted schools inspection handbook 2018.
Online reporting
All maintained schools including schools that have converted to academies must publish details of how you spend your PE and sport premium funding by the end of the summer term or by 31 July 2020 at the latest.
The Department for Education commissioned the Association for Physical Education and the Youth Sport Trust to create a national template which has been newly updated, to include swimming data. Head teachers, Governors and Subject Leaders will be able to use this simple reporting mechanism to ensure they are compliant.
