Exercise within school hours has never been so important following the restrictions put on daily life. By encouraging physical activity and a healthy life we can help combat childhood obesity and help to strengthen the immune system. All young people should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives. A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation. The PE and sport premium can help primary schools to achieve this aim, providing primary schools with £320m of government funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered through their core budgets. Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the physical education (PE), physical activity and sport they provide. We offer a range of equipment that can help encourage further physical activity within your school. Trim Trail Combination Trails Play Frames Forest Climbers Multi-Play Modules Outdoor Gym Equipment Goal Ends Sports Courts Ground Graphics Full details can be seen at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pe-and-sport-premium-for-primary-schools#about-the-pe-and-sport-premium What is the PE & Sports Premium All young people should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives. A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation. 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 School Sport and Activity Action Plan set out government’s commitment to ensuring that children and young people have access to at least 60 minutes of sport and physical activity per day, with a recommendation of 30 minutes of this delivered during the school day (in line with the Chief Medical Officers guidelines which recommend an average of at least 60 minutes per day across the week). The PE and sport premium can help primary schools to achieve this aim, providing primary schools with £320m of government funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered through their core budgets. How to use the PE and Sport Premium Funding Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the physical education (PE), physical activity and sport they provide. This means that you should 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 will benefit pupils joining the school in future years What the funding should not be used for You should not use your funding to: employ coaches or specialist teachers to cover planning preparation and assessment (PPA) arrangements – these should come out of your core staffing budgets teach the minimum requirements of the national curriculum – apart from top-up swimming lessons after pupils’ completion of core lessons (or, in the case of academies and free schools, to teach your existing PE curriculum) fund capital expenditure – DfE does not set the capitalisation policy for each school – school business managers, school accountants and their auditors are best placed to advise on a school’s agreed capitalisation policy Accountability School compliance You are accountable for how you use of the PE and sport premium funding allocated to you. You are expected to spend the grant for the purpose it was provided – to make additional and sustainable improvements to the PE, sport and physical activity offered. Online reporting 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 2021 at the latest. If you have any carried forward funding from academic year 2019 to 2020 you should show separately how this funding has been spent and confirm that it has been spent before 31 March 2021. Eligibility Most schools with primary-age pupils receive the PE and sport premium in the academic year 2020 to 2021, including: schools maintained by the local authority academiesand 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 education for children who cannot attend a mainstream school) general hospitals The following types of school 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 the funding is calculated 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, how many pupils in your school who attract the funding is determined by using data from the January 2020 school census. If you are a new school or a school teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the academic year 2020 to 2021, your funding is based on data from the autumn 2020 school census. Funding for 2020 to 2021 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 2020 to 2021 and read the conditions of grant for 2020 to 2021. The breakdown of funding for the academic year 2019 to 2020 is also available. Payment dates for 2020 to 2021 Maintained schools, including PRUs and general hospitals Maintained schools, including PRUs and general hospitals, do not receive funding directly from DfE. Funding is given to your local authority and they pass it on to you. Local authorities PE and sport premium funding for maintained schools is given in 2 separate payments. They receive: 7/12 of your funding allocation on 30 October 2020 5/12 of your funding allocation on 30 April 2021 If you are a new maintained school or if you are teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the 2020 to 2021 academic year, local authorities receive: 7/12 of your funding allocation on 26 February 2021 5/12 of your funding allocation on 30 April 2021 Academies, free schools and CTCs Academies, free schools and CTCs receive their PE and sport premium funding in 2 separate payments. You receive: 7/12 of your funding allocation on 2 November 2020 5/12 of your funding allocation on 4 May 2021 If you are a new academy, free school or CTC, or if you are teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the 2020 to 2021 academic year, you receive: 7/12 of your total funding allocation on 1 March 2021 5/12 of your total funding allocation on 4 May 2021 Non-maintained special schools Non-maintained special schools receive 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 2 November 2020 5/12 of your funding with the first payment you have scheduled with us after 4 May 2021