PE & Sport Premium – Westoe Crown Primary School

About the PE and sport premium

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

The PE and sport premium can help primary schools to achieve this commitment, providing primary schools with £320 million of government funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered through their core budgets. It is allocated directly to schools, so they have the flexibility to use it in the way that works best for their pupils.

How to use the PE and sport premium

Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport they provide. This includes any carried forward funding.

This means that you must use the PE and sport premium to:

develop or add to the PE, physical activity and sport that your school provides
build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now are sustainable and will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

You should use the PE and sport premium to secure improvements in the following 5 key indicators.

Engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity, for example by:

providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children
encouraging active play during break times and lunchtimes
establishing, extending or funding attendance of school sports clubs and activities and holiday clubs, or broadening the variety offered
adopting an active mile initiative
raising attainment in primary school swimming to meet requirements of the national curriculum before the end of key stage 2.

Swimming Outcomes

Schools are also required to publish the percentage of pupils by the end of KS2 who met the national curriculum requirement to:

swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
use a range of strokes effectively, for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke
perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

2018/19 – 86%

2019/20 – 83%

2020/21 – 66%*

2021/22 – 88%

2023/24 – 96%

2024/25 – 98%

*Impact of leisure and swimming pool closures for extended periods during Covid-19 national lockdowns

Primary PE and sport premium planning, reporting and evaluating

PE and Sport Premium Review 2024-25

Reporting PE and sport premium grant expenditure – opportunities, impacts and sustainability details

Reporting PE and sport premium grant expenditure – categories of grant spending

Reporting PE and sport premium grant expenditure – your funding allocation