PE & Sports Funding
What is the PE & Sport Premium?
The government’s PE & Sport Premium is additional funding provided to primary schools to support them with making sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, school sport and physical activity (PESSPA) offered through their core budgets.
Into its eleventh year, the Primary PE and Sport Premium supports schools to ensure equal access, support all pupils to be active for 60 minutes a day and ensure the delivery of two hours of quality PE for all pupils.
Premium funding should be used to achieve at least one of the following:
- Making additional and sustainable improvements to the PE, sport and physical activity they provide
- Providing or improving equal access to sport for boys and girls
- Ensuring teachers have relevant skills and knowledge to confidently teach PE in a structured way, prioritising continued professional development and training where needed
Additional information can be found on the government's website and also on the Youth Sport Trust's website.
How do we use the PE & Sport Premium?
At Mossgate Primary School, we believe we have a central role to play in supporting all children to live healthy, active livestyles and this is demonstrated through our whole-school 'Health & Well-being' theme which takes place annually during the first half of the Autumn term. We believe that we lay the foundations to ensure children develop positive attitudes towards healthy lifestyles and enjoyable participation in regular, physical activity in later life.
We are committed to our children receiving two hours of high-quality PE taught by confident and knowledgeable teachers and providing opportunities to experience and participate in a wide range of sports and physical activities throughout the year. Alongside this, children have access to at least 55 minutes of physical activity daily during the school day through active playtimes and the Daily Mile.
Leaders at Mossgate use the PE & Sport Premium to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PESSPA by:
- funding high-quality PE and sport for at least 2 hours a week, complemented by a wide range of extracurricular sport and competitive opportunities
- providing and improving equal access to sport for boy and girls
- increasing participation in PESSPA, so that all pupils develop healthy lifestyles and reach the performance levels they are capable of
- build capacity and capability to make sure that improvements made to PESSPA now are sustainable and will benefit pupils joining Mossgate in the future
When writing our PE & Sport Premium Plan, we have reviewed our actions against the government’s 5 key indicators and the DfE’s examples of how to use the PE and Sport Premium.
Updated: 2025 RS