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Primary PE and Sport Funding - New guidelines, conditions of grant, and best practices

Published 17 October 2024

Funding must only be spent on making additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport for the benefit of all primary-aged pupils to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles.

Schools must spend the PE and sport premium funding within the academic year it has been allocated for and funding should not be allocated only to benefit a certain year group. Schools cannot roll-over any unused funding into the following academic year.

The Secretary of State does not consider the following expenditure as falling within the scope of additional or sustainable improvement:

• capital expenditure (except for goods within the de minimis value for purchases set by the school)
• employing coaches or specialist teachers to cover planning preparation and assessment (PPA) arrangements. This should be funded from a school’s core staffing budgets
• staff salaries, for example using your premium funding allocation to employ someone whose role is to specifically administer the PE and sport premium, or to use your entire funding allocation to employ someone that is responsible for arranging and running PE, sport or activity sessions. This would not be viewed as sustainable
• to teach the existing PE curriculum (or, in the case of academies, to teach the existing PE curriculum)– apart from top-up swimming lessons after pupils’ completion of core lessons. Teaching of the curriculum should be funded through a school’s core funding.
• the purchase of services that will be delivered or/used in following academic years (this includes the payment of invoices/subscriptions in advance)
• the purchase of staff or pupil PE kit

The PSSP continues to fulfil all the criteria of providing additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport for the benefit of all primary-aged pupils to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles.

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Monster Kickabout 2024 

We’re back again to bring you a fortnight of footballing fun, with more activities, more lesson plans, more games, and more equipment to giveaway.

By registering, you’ll get a detailed set of footballing activities to keep your students fit and healthy, and introduce football to those students who may not usually engage with the sport. Each activity will come with instructions and a video guide on how to setup, run and differentiate to suit the needs of your students.

We’ll also have a range of classroom activities, designed to fit in with the school curriculum and include elements of core subjects alongside the underlying football theme. In addition, there will be extra fun activities and games to keep your students busy.

This year we are also introducing an assembly video you can show your staff and students to explain what Monster Kickabout is, and how they can get involved over the 2 weeks.
Finally, we will be giving away free football packs containing Nike footballs, Monster Kickabout bibs and printed resources to 3000 randomly selected schools who register before 18th October 2024.

The website is www.monsterkickabout.com to register.