Sports Premium Funding

At Bosbury, we recognise the huge contribution that Physical Education (PE) makes to the health and well-being of our pupils. We believe that an innovative, varied PE curriculum with plenty of extra-curricular opportunities has an extremely positive influence on children's concentration, attitude and achievement.

Sports Premium Funding, enables us to continue and extend our provision by employing additional sports coaches, entering into more competitive sports competitions, providing swimming lessons, and training our staff to deliver high quality PE and Games sessions.

What is Sports Premium Funding?

The Government provides £150 million of Sports Premium Funding per annum (academic year) to primary schools to support the delivery of PE and School Sport. This funding will be ring fenced, with Ofsted reporting annually on its expenditure and impact.

All schools with seventeen or more primary-aged pupils (5-11 yrs) on roll receive a lump sum of £8,000, plus a premium of £5 per pupil per annum.

The Government are not dictating how schools should spend the money, but are clear that schools need to employ strategies that they know will support pupils to increase their active participation in sports.

Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this.

Possible effective uses for Sports Premium Funding:

✓ hiring specialist PE teachers or qualified sports coaches to work with primary teachers when teaching PE;
✓ paying for professional development opportunities for teachers in PE and Sport,
providing cover to release primary teachers for professional development;
✓ running sport competitions, or increasing pupils’ participation in Sainsbury's Herefordshire School Games events;
✓ buying quality assured professional development modules or materials for PE and sport;
✓ providing places for pupils on after school sports clubs and holiday clubs;
✓ pooling the additional funding with that of other local schools.