Sports Premium Grant

What the Primary PE & Sport Premium Is:

The Primary PE & sport premium is additional government funding for state-funded primary schools to improve physical education (PE), sport and activity provision for pupils aged 5–11.

It should help schools:

• support all pupils to be active and healthy

• increase participation in sport and physical activity

• enhance quality of PE teaching

• embed a wide range of sporting opportunities for all pupils.

Who Gets It?

Eligible schools include:

• State-funded primary schools (maintained, academies and free schools)

• Non-maintained special schools

How Much Funding Schools Receive

For the 2025–26 academic year (current guidance):

• Schools with 16 or fewer eligible pupils receive £1,000 per pupil

• Schools with 17 or more eligible pupils receive £16,000 plus £10 per eligible pupil

  What the Funding Must Be Used For

  You must use the premium to make additional and sustainable improvements to provision of PE, sport and physical activity. That means:

  Acceptable Uses

  Schools can use the funding to:

  🔹 provide quality staff training (CPD) to improve confidence and skills
  🔹 extend extracurricular sport opportunities
  🔹 support pupils’ engagement in physical activity
  🔹 widen access to competitive sport and inclusive activities
  🔹 employ specialist coaches (as development support, not long-term replacement for teachers)
  🔹 fund transport to competitions and activity opportunities
  🔹 help pupils with additional needs participate fully.

  Not Allowed

  You must not use the funding for:

  ❌ teaching the minimum national curriculum requirement (this is in core funding)
  ❌ staffing costs for regular PE lessons delivered instead of teachers
  ❌ buying staff PE kit
  ❌ capital projects (large buildings) or advancing services into future years
  ❌ transport to activities that meet only the minimum PE curriculum.

Evidence of the impact of the P.E. and Sports Premium 

Sports Premium Report 2024 - 2025

Click here to read our Sports Premium Report for 2023-24, including data on swimming.

Click here to read our Sports Premium Report for 2022 - 2023, including data on Y6 swimming.