All children and young people should live healthy active lives. To support this, since 2013, the Government has provided funding of £150 million per annum to provide new, substantial primary school sport funding. The aim of the funding is to improve the quality and variety of PE and Sports programs offered by primary schools and is provided jointly by various governmental departments, including Education, Health and Culture and Media and Sport. The PE and Sports Premium is ‘ring fenced’, meaning it can only be spent specifically on PE and Sport within the school and must be used to make additional and sustainable improvements to increase the breadth and quality of PE and Sport provision and increase participation in PE and Sport.
At Senacre Wood Primary school, we are using our funding to enhance PE and Sport via...