Elm Grove Primary School, Worthing

What is the 'Sports Premium'?

The government provided funding of £150 million per annum to provide new and substantial primary school sport funding. The funding was jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, with the money going directly to primary school Head teachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. Each school received £8,000 plus an extra £5 per pupil each year for the two years.

Schools have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they have the freedom to choose how they do this. Possible uses of the funding include:

 • Hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work alongside primary teachers when teaching PE

• New or additional Change4Life sport clubs

• Paying for professional development opportunities in PE/sport

• Providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development in PE/sport

• Running sport competitions, or increasing participation in the school games

• Buying quality assured professional development modules or material for PE/sport

 • Providing places for pupils on after school sport clubs and residential visits.

How much Sport Premium do we receive?

The school is now well resourced for PE and the teachers are feeling more confident and able to teach effective and engaging PE lessons. We are working on organising the equipment more effectively to ensure teachers can access the equipment needed.

The children are having great fun in their lessons and we are improving our playground provision by making sure that the children have access to the equipment when they are out to play.