PE & Sports Grant
All young people should have the opportunity to live healthy and active lives. A positive experience of sport and physical activity at a young age can build a lifetime habit of participation and is central to meeting the government’s ambitions for a world-class education system.
Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental well-being (increasing self-esteem and emotional well-being and lowering anxiety and depression), and children who are physically active are happier, more resilient and more trusting of their peers. Ensuring that pupils have access to sufficient daily activity can also have wider benefits for pupils and schools, improving behaviour as well as enhancing academic achievement. The government has announced changes to the way PE and school sport funding will be delivered from 2026.
During the 2026-27 academic year, schools will continue to receive transitional PE and Sport Premium funding while a new national PE and School Sport Partnerships Network is introduced. The new approach aims to strengthen collaboration between schools, sports organisations and local providers, ensuring that all children, particularly those facing barriers to participation, have access to high-quality physical education, sport and physical activity opportunities. Schools will continue to focus on promoting healthy, active lifestyles, increasing participation in sport and supporting children's physical, social and emotional wellbeing. For more information please click here.
At our school, we remain committed to providing a broad range of sporting opportunities, high-quality PE lessons, extracurricular clubs and competitive experiences that help every child develop confidence, resilience and a lifelong enjoyment of being active
Orrell Lamberhead Green use the PE and sport premium to:
develop or add to the PE, physical activity and sport that your school provides
build capacity and capability within the school to ensure that improvements made now will benefit pupils joining the school in future years
This enables the school to ensure improvements in the following 5 key indicators.
Engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity, for example by:
providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children
encouraging active play during break times and lunchtimes
establishing, extending or funding attendance of school sport clubs and activities and holiday clubs, or broadening the variety offered
adopting an active mile initiative and or daily active PE sessions
raising attainment in primary school swimming to meet requirements of the national curriculum before the end of key stage 2. Every child should leave primary school able to swim.