PE and sport premium for primary schools

About the PE and sport premium

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How to use the PE and sport premium

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You can use the PE and sport premium to fund the professional development and training that is available to schools to train staff to support high-qualityhigh quality swimming and water safety lessons for their pupils.

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  You must publish details of how you spend your PE and sport premium funding by the end of the summer term or by 31 July 20232022 at the latest.

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  • the impact the school has seen on pupils’ PE,PE, physical activity, and sport participation and attainment
  • how the improvements will be sustainable in the future

  You mustare also required to publish the percentage of pupils within your year 6 cohort in the 20222021 to 20232022 academic year who met the national curriculum requirement to:

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  Attainment data for year 6 pupils should be provided from their most recent swimming lessons. This may be data from years 3, 4, 5 or 6, depending on the swimming programme at your school. It is essential to retain attainment data from swimming lessons in years 3 to 5 to be able to report this accurately in year 6.

  To help you plan, monitor and report on the impact of your spending, partners in the physical education and school sport sector have developed a template. The template can be accessed through the Association for PE and Youth Sport Trust websites. It is recommended that the template is used to record your activity throughout the year, inas readinesswell ofas for publication at the end of the school year.

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  Eligibility

  Most schools with primary-age pupils receive the PE and sport premium in the academic year 20222021 to 2023,2022, including:

  • schools maintained by the local authority
  • academies (includes free schools)
  • special schools (for children with special educational needs or disabilities)
  • non-maintained special schools (schools for children with special educational needs that the Secretary of State for Education has approved under section 342 of the Education Act 1996)
  • city technology colleges (CTCs)
  • pupil referral units (PRUs provide provide education for children who cannot attend a mainstream school)
  • general hospitals

  The following types of schools do not receive this funding:

  • nursery schools
  • studio schools
  • university technical colleges (UTCs)
  • independent schools (except for non-maintained special schools, which do receive the funding)

  How we calculate funding

  Schools receive PE and sport premium funding based on the number of pupils in years 1 to 6.

  In cases where schools do not follow year groups (for example, in some special schools), pupils aged 5 to 10 attract the funding.

  In most cases, we determine how many pupils in your school attract the funding by using data from the January 20222021 school census.

  If you are a new school or a school teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the academic year 20222021 to 2023,2022, we will base your funding on data from the autumn 20222021 school census.

  Funding for 20222021 to 20232022

  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 20222021 to 20232022 and read the conditions of grant for 20222021 to 2023.2022.

  The breakdown of funding for the academic year 20212020 to 20222021 is also available.

  Payment dates for 20222021 to 20232022

  Maintained schools, including including PRUs and and general hospitals

  Maintained schools, including including PRUs and and general hospitals, do not receive funding directly from DfE.from DfE. We give the funding to your local authority and they pass it on to you.

  We give local authorities PE and sport premium funding for maintained schools in 2 separate payments. They receive:

  • 7/12 of your funding allocation on 3129 October 20222021
  • 5/12 of your funding allocation on 2829 April 20232022

  If you are a new maintained school or if you are teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the 20222021 to 20232022 academic year, local authorities receive:

  • 7/12 of your funding allocation on 2728 February 20232022
  • 5/12 of your funding allocation on 2829 April 20232022

  Academies, free schools and and CTCs

  We send academies (including free schools) and and CTCs their their PE and sport premium funding in 2 separate payments. You receive:

  • 7/12 of your funding allocation on 82 November 20222021
  • 5/12 of your funding allocation on 23 May 20232022

  If you are a new academy (includes a free school) or CTC, or if you are teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the 20222021 to 20232022 academic year, you receive:

  • 7/12 of your total funding allocation on 281 AprilMarch 20232022
  • 5/12 of your total funding allocation on 23 May 20232022

  Non-maintained special schools

  We send non-maintained special schools their PE and sport premium funding in 2 separate payments. You receive:

  • 7/12 of your funding with the first payment you have scheduled with us after 81 November 20222021
  • 5/12 of your funding with the first payment you have scheduled with us after 34 May 20232022

  Further guidance

  You can get further guidance at:

  • Association for PE -– advice on the PE premium
  • Youth Sport Trust – primary PE and sport premium
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