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PE & Sport Premium 2017/18

The PE and Sport Premium in 2017/18 has undergone a massive transformation from previous years. The Government along with Sport England and the Department of Health have come together to produce a clear vision and tasked primary schools with the additional targets of increasing physical activity and health and wellbeing along side their Physical Education and Sporting goals. 
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These Targets will be measured against 5 key indicators.

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1. The engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity - the Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that all children and young people aged 5 to 18 engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, of which 30 minutes should be in school

 

2. The profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement

 

3. Increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport

 

4. broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils

 

5. Increased participation in competitive sport

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Schools have been provided with double the amount of funding to help meet these 5 key indicators and improve their schools physical activity and health & wellbeing. Therefore, to support school in spending their funding, our Partnership has produced an action plan linked to the 5 indicators which school can use to guide their own action plans.

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As always schools need to document how they have spent their funding on their own school websites, however due to the doubling of funding school will be more accountable for the record keeping and should clearly show the sustainability and impact of how they have spent their funding.

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With this in mind, our Partnership is advocating the reporting template produced by AfPE which is downloaded below.

North Suffolk Sport & Health Action Plan 

Evidencing the Impact of Primary PE and Sport Premium Template 2017

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 you offer.

This means that you should use the premium to:

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  • develop or add to the PE and sport activities that your school already offers

  • build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years

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There are 5 key indicators that schools should expect to see improvement across:

  • the engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity - the Chief Medical Officer guidelines recommend that all children and young people aged 5 to 18 engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, of which 30 minutes should be in school

  • the profile of PE and sport is raised across the school as a tool for whole-school improvement

  • increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport

  • broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils

  • increased participation in competitive sport

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For example, you can use your funding to:

  • provide staff with professional development, mentoring, training and resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively

  • hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers to enhance or extend current opportunities

  • introduce new sports, dance or other activities to encourage more pupils to take up sport and physical activities

  • support and involve the least active children by providing targeted activities, and running or extending school sports and holiday clubs

  • enter or run more sport competitions

  • partner with other schools to run sports activities and clubs

  • increase pupils’ participation in the School Games

  • encourage pupils to take on leadership or volunteer roles that support sport and physical activity within the school

  • provide additional swimming provision targeted to pupils not able to meet the swimming requirements of the national curriculum

  • embed physical activity into the school day through active travel to and from school, active playgrounds and active teaching

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You should not use your funding to:

  • employ coaches or specialist teachers to cover planning preparation and assessment (PPA) arrangements - these should come out of your core staffing budgets

  • teach the minimum requirements of the national curriculum - including those specified for swimming (or, in the case of academies and free schools, to teach your existing PE curriculum)

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Funding Criteria for 2017 to 2018

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  • Schools with 16 or fewer eligible pupils receive £1,000 per pupil.

  • Schools with 17 or more eligible pupils receive £16,000 and an additional payment of £10 per pupil.

  • The breakdown of funding for the academic year 2016 to 2017, including conditions of grant, is available.

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Payment dates for 2017 to 2018

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Maintained schools, including PRUs and general hospitals

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Maintained schools, including PRUs and general hospitals, do not receive funding directly from DfE. We give the funding to your local authority and they pass it on to you.

 

We give local authorities PE and sport premium funding for maintained schools in 2 separate payments. Local authorities receive:

  • 7/12 of your funding allocation on 31 October 2017

  • 5/12 of your funding allocation on 30 April 2018

 

If you are a new maintained school or if you are teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the academic year 2017 to 2018, local authorities receive:

  • 7/12 of your funding allocation on 31 January 2018

  • 5/12 of your funding allocation on 30 April 2018

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Academies, free schools and CTCs

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The Education Skills and Funding Agency (ESFA) sends academies, free schools and CTCs their PE and sport premium funding in 2 separate payments. You receive:

  • 7/12 of your funding allocation on 1 November 2017

  • 5/12 of your funding allocation on 1 May 2018

 

If you are a new academy, free school or CTC, or if you are teaching eligible pupils for the first time in the academic year 2017 to 2018, you receive:

  • 7/12 of your total funding allocation on 1 February 2018

  • 5/12 of your total funding allocation on 1 May 2018

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Non-maintained special schools

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ESFA sends non-maintained special schools their PE and sport premium funding in 2 separate payments. You receive:

  • 7/12 of your funding with the first payment you have scheduled with ESFA after 1 November 2017

  • 5/12 of your funding with the first payment you have scheduled with ESFA after 1 May 2018

Accountability

 

Ofsted inspections:

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Ofsted assesses how primary schools use the primary PE and sport premium. They measure its impact on pupil outcomes, and how effectively governors hold school leaders to account for this.

You can find details of what inspectors look for in the ‘effectiveness of leadership and management’ section of the ‘Ofsted schools inspection handbook 2015’.

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Online reporting:

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You must publish details of how you spend your PE and sport premium funding. This must include:

  • the amount of premium received

  • a full breakdown of how it has been spent (or will be spent)

  • the impact the school has seen on pupils’ PE and sport participation and attainment

  • how the improvements will be sustainable in the future

For the 2017 to 2018 academic year, there is a new condition requiring schools to publish how many pupils within their year 6 cohort are meeting the national curriculum requirement to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres, use a range of strokes effectively and perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

This condition has been added in response to recommendations from the Swim Group, who reviewed curriculum swimming and water safety in primary schools. You can get advice and resources to help deliver swimming lessons successfully in primary schools.

To help you plan, monitor and report on the impact of your spending, it’s recommended that you download a template to record your activity. The Department has commissioned partners in the physical education and school sport sector to develop a template, which is available at:

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Accountability reviews

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Accountability reviews will be carried out after the April deadline for schools to have published details on their websites of how they have spent their premium funding. We will sample a number of schools in each local authority, with the schools chosen based on a mix of random selection and prior non-compliance with the online reporting requirements.

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Further advice

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You can get further advice, including best practice examples of how schools are using their premium effectively, on the gov.uk teacher blog.

Visit Sports Coach UK’s ‘coaching in primary schools toolkit’ for advice on employing sports coaches for your school.

Watch short films on the Sport England website for more advice on using the PE and sport premium effectively. Sport England produced these films in collaboration with the Association for Physical Education, the Youth Sport Trust, the County Sports Partnership Network, Sports Coach UK and Compass.

Find advice from Public Health England on what works in schools and colleges to increase levels of physical activity among children and young people.

You can also contact your local county sports partnership (CSP) for support with spending your PE and sport premium.

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