The government is providing additional funding to improve provision of PE and sport in primary schools. This funding - provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport - will be allocated to primary school head teachers.
This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools.
This year this money equates to £16000 per school per year plus an additional £10 per child. For us that equates to approx. £20,600 of additional funding to improve PE and school sport.
This money will be used across the whole school to try and improve all aspects of PE and sport.
The aims of this spending will be to:
A breakdown of how the money will be spent can be downloaded below.