Physical Education Funding | Valley Gardens Middle School

Most schools with primary-age pupils receive the PE and sport premium in the academic year 2015 to 2016, including:

schools maintained by the local authority
academies and 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 can’t go to a mainstream school)
general hospitals

The following types of school don’t 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 to use the PE and sport premium.

Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport they offer.

This means that you should use the premium to:

develop or add to the PE and sport activities that your school already offers
make improvements now that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

For example, you can use your funding to:

hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers
provide existing staff with training or resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively
introduce new sports or activities and encourage more pupils to take up sport
support and involve the least active children by running or extending school sports clubs, holiday clubs and Change4Life clubs
run sport competitions
increase pupils’ participation in the School Games
run sports activities with other schools

Documentation for 2017-2018 is currently being updated.