Top Tips to Maximise your PE & Sport Premium 2024-2025

Want some top tips on how to maximise your PE and Sport Premium? In this blog we explore what the PE & Sport Premium is and offer some ideas to help you make the most out of the funding. PE and school sport are a vital part of a broad and balanced school curriculum for all pupils. The school PE & Sport premium can be used to promote healthy lifestyles, develop a love for playing sports and being physically active.

What is PE & Sport Premium?

A fund provided by the government specifically with the aim of improving physical education (PE), sport and physical activity in Primary schools. A legacy to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the funding is ring-fenced to spend on improving provision for physical activity and delivering high quality PE and sport opportunities for all pupils.

PE & Sport Premium 2024-2025

The Government have confirmed that the funding will continue into this next academic year 2024-2025. A new digital reporting tool is available to report your premium spend. This form is to provide a breakdown of how the grant was spent for 2023-2024, capturing how the funding has been used and the impact it has had. The closing date for this- Wednesday 31^st July 2024.

Aims

• Improve Physical Education (PE) provision, enhancing quality of PE lessons and ensuring they are engaging, inclusive and promote physical activity.
• Increase staff confidence, knowledge and skills.
• Promote physical activity and encourage active lifestyles both during school hours and beyond. Raising profile of PE and sport across school.
• Provide sustainable impact which benefits current and future pupils.

Broaden experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils and increase participation in competitive sports.

What can the PE & Sport premium be used for?

Here are some suggestions:

• Develop or add to the PE, sport and physical activity that your school provides.

  Do a complete audit of your lessons, after school, lunch and breaktime equipment. Are there enough high-quality resources for all children to be active? Consider the development of core skills, do the items encourage running, jumping, throwing, catching?

• Continued professional development (CPD) of all staff.

  Upskill staff so that they feel confident and able to lead PE sessions independently. Review your staff’s CPD needs.

• Raise attainment in swimming and water safety.

  Top-up swimming sessions for those who have not met the National curriculum requirements.

• Embed physical activity into the school day

  Encourage active travel to and from school and having active break times. Finding the time for two hours of high-quality PE in the weekly timetable is crucial and making the most of this time and additional opportunities is vital for pupils to maintain good physical and mental health.

• Provide targeted activities and support to encourage least active children.

  Try some active curriculum lessons to get them engaged like a maths scoring throwing activity, running around on spelling trails, orienteering in geography and using relay type games in science. Look at alternative games that can be enjoyed at lunchtime and in after school clubs.

Help to provide equal access for all pupils to a range of sports and physical activities.

Find ways to monitor attendance of extra-curricular sport and physical activity clubs. Get feedback from those who do not attend and find ways to get these pupils involved.

Our Top 5 tips

1. Raise the profile of PE and Sport across the school

• Create a positive atmosphere and culture towards being active and celebrate PE through newsletters, assemblies and various displays around school. Use assembly time to inspire and teach rules of new sports and help children to feel more confident and knowledgeable.
• Embed physical activities into the school day with daily keep fit sessions such as whole school ‘Wake up & shake up’.
• Consider pupils coming into school wearing PE kits on PE days to maximise PE lessons.
• Offer physical activities during breaktimes, lunchtimes and before and after school.
• Protect indoor and outdoor PE spaces by ringfencing them for sport and physical activity purposes only and ensure lessons happen in all weather conditions.
• Connect with the community and share sports facilities. Work closely with external organisations such as the local football club or dance group.

2. Increase confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and Sport

• PE specialists can work alongside teachers to help upskill them.
• Provide CPD and training to build staff confidence.
• Invest in curriculum resources and equipment to help deliver good PE sessions and ensure consistency and progression throughout the school.
• Develop a PE subject leadership team to support staff and create an assessment toolkit to monitor PE.
• Offer after school sports for staff to enjoy.

3. Engage all pupils in regular physical activity

• Run sessions before and after school, at breaktimes and lunchtimes to accommodate all pupils. Have active break and lunchtimes and offer a range of equipment. Introduce new activities and set up active challenges.
• Have sports leaders and let peers lead activities and act as role models.
• Offer a wide range of different clubs and consider opening premises outside regular school hours to encourage family participation. Involve parents in active learning and healthy eating. Get them to send pictures into school of the family being active and encourage active travel to and from school.
• Adapt sports and activities to make them more accessible to a range of pupils. Provide staff with the expertise and confidence to adapt a wide range of sporting and physical activities to engage a diverse range of pupil’s interests and abilities.
• Make sure children see staff being active and taking part. Use external visitors to motivate children and act as role models.
• Monitor stereotypes in sports and challenge appropriately, providing a broad PE and school sports for all pupils.

4. Increase participation in competitive sport

• Attend festivals and competitions and give all pupils a chance to represent the school in some sporting activity.
• Get involved with events such as National Sports Week in June and set up in-house competitions.
• Create relationships and share expertise across multiple schools and have school competitions.
• Spend time planning your annual School Sports day. See our blog ‘7 top tips for sports day-New for 2024’ for inspiration:

https://www.tts-group.co.uk/blog/2024/06/04/7-sports-day-ideas.html

• Offer regular after school sports clubs and arrange games against other school clubs.
• Have ‘personal best’ challenges for children to enjoy at break and lunchtime.

5. Broaden experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils

• Offer a range of sports clubs to improve pupils’ feeling of belonging in the school and community. Make these ‘Let’s Play… clubs’ so pupils who prefer to learn the skills of games rather than playing the games can be involved. Offer activities such as golf, multi-skills as well as more traditional ones such as football and dance.
• Use external coaches to offer a wider variety of sports.
• Introduce new sports through an extensive after school and lunchtime club programme. Make exciting announcements of the new sports in assemblies to raise the profile of the activities.
• Appoint sports leaders and involve mid-day supervisors to support the delivery of these active lunchtimes.
• Have a carousel of activities and offer multi-skill tasks at school events such as Sports Day.

Every school is different and it’s important that you develop your own plan for spending the PE & Sport premium. Ensure that you evidence the impact to show the benefits of the funding.

Thank you for reading our blog and we hope you have been able to take some ideas from it to get the most out of your Sport Premium.