The government is providing additional funding to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport and primary schools. This funding - provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport - has been allocated to primary school head teachers.

This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sports in schools.

Purpose of funding

Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport but schools have been given the freedom to choose how they do this.

Benchill Primary School has decided to use the money to:

• employ other specialists to work alongside our teachers when teaching PE in order to strengthen teaching and learning in this subject across the school
• support and engage the least active children in physical activities
• pay for professional development opportunities for teachers in PE and sport
• increase pupils' participation in the sports and physical activities
• provide places for pupils on after school sports clubs
• improve resources to support the development of the subject.

The impact of the use of the grant will  be reviewed at the end of each year.

This document details how we spend our Sports Premium: