PE and School Sport Premium Funding

Tees Valley Sport works in partnership with Sport England, Youth Sport Trust, The Association for Physical Education and local partners, to support schools in making the most of the Primary PE and Sport Funding.

Spending in an academic year   

Schools must spend the PE and sport premium funding in full within the academic year it has been allocated for. As funding is provided for all pupils in years 1 to 6, it should not be allocated to only benefit a certain year group.  

Schools cannot roll over any unused funding into the following academic year. They must spend the funding before 31 July 2025 so it can be accounted for in the PE and sport premium digital reporting form.

Digital reporting form  

From July 2025, all schools must complete the digital reporting form. The digital form outlines how the school has used its PE and sport premium and the impact it has had on achieving the aims and objectives of the funding.

The digital form contains a series of questions and free text boxes. Schools can enter details on how the PE and sport premium has been used to make improvements in the 5 key areas highlighted in this guidance. It can also be used to generate the necessary online report. The information gathered includes:

• figures on the overall spend
• what the funding has been spent on
• whether there is any unspent funding
• swimming and water safety attainment

The digital form will go live during May or June 2025, and will remain open until 31st July 2025.

Online Report  

As part of the conditions of grant, by 31 July 2025 a school must publish on its website a report detailing how it has spent its PE and sport premium funding allocation. If a school chooses to download a copy of its digital form return and use this as its published report, it must ensure that the form is converted to HTML format to meet accessibility requirements.

The published report must include:

• the amount of premium funding received
• a full breakdown of how it has been spent
• the impact seen by the school on pupils’ participation and attainment in PE and sport
• how this improvement will be sustained

The report must also contain details on the percentage of pupils in year 6 who have met the national curriculum requirement to:

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• use a range of strokes effectively – for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

Recording: Primary PE and Sport Premium Webinar

On  Wednesday 6th November 2024 Department for Education, Association for Physical Education and the Youth Sport Trust delivered a collaborative webinar that focused on the changes to the guidance, and reporting procedures. The attendees also had an opportunity to submit questions to representatives from the DfE, afPE and YST.

To view the recording please click here

For more information please contact t.raynor@tees.ac.uk