You should use the PE and sport premium funding to:
- support all children and young people to live healthy, active lives
- make participation in PE and school sport easier
- make sure all children can achieve and thrive through increased physical activity and sport, no matter their background or ability
- improve children’s health, wellbeing, personal development and academic attainment
- embed the foundations of positive and enjoyable participation in regular physical activity.
The UK Chief Medical Officers recommend:
- children and young people should take part in moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity for at least 60 minutes every day
- disabled children and young people should take part in 20 minutes of physical activity per day
You should aim to provide:
- high-quality PE and sport for at least 2 hours a week
- a wide range of extracurricular sport and competitive opportunities
You must not use this funding for activities within the core curriculum.
Effective ways to spend the PE and sport premium
You should focus on making improvements in 5 key areas:
- increase all staff’s confidence, knowledge and skills in teaching PE and sporting activities
- increase all pupils’ engagement in regular physical activity and sporting activities
- raise the profile of PE and sport across the school, to support whole school improvement
- offer a broader and more equal experience of a range of sports and physical activities to all pupils, and ensure equal access to sport for boys and girls
- increase participation in competitive sport
To do this, you may:
- provide continued professional development (CPD) for all staff
- embed physical activity into the school day, by encouraging active travel to and from school and having active break times
- provide targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children
- help to provide equal access for all pupils to the range of sports and physical activities that the school offers
- provide extra-curricular opportunities for children to enable them to access other sporting activities or specialist sport instruction
- provide specialist support to help children with additional needs to access and participate fully in PE lessons
- enter local school competitions and hold inter-house competitions in the school to encourage participation
You may also provide top-up swimming and water safety lessons for pupils that do not meet national curriculum requirements, after they have completed core swimming and water safety lessons. This includes paying for:
- transport costs
- the cost of training a teacher to enable them to be able to deliver swimming and water safety lessons
Swimming – 2024-2025
92% – Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.
84% – Use a range of strokes effectively (for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke).
88% – Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
Go Well
We use part of our Sports Premium budget for our SLA with Go Well. We use coaches from Go Well to support the delivery of our PE lessons by helping to upskill our staff. Mrs Hall (our PE subject leader) attends regular meetings with Go Well, including subject leader training, and other members of staff also access relevant courses to improve their teaching of the subject.
Go Well also run a wide range of competitions and festivals that our pupils have the opportunity to attend and in recent years this has included netball and football leagues, basketball, athletics, gymnastics, multi skills and tag rugby festivals. There is a mixture of competitive and participation events to meet the needs of all pupils in school.
Visit the Go Well website here.
Active 30
Remove this part – Find out more about Active 30 on the Active 30 Durham website. This also has lots of ideas for how you can stay active at home to make sure the children achieve their full 60 minutes of activity per day.
Sports Premium Impact 2025-2026
Sports Premium Impact 2024-2025