About the PE and sport premium

Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing (increasing self-esteem and emotional wellbeing 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.

PE and School Sport Premium

The government in England is providing additional and substantial, ring-fenced funding to provide support to primary PE and school sport. The funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary schools to spend on improving the quality of physical education and sport for all their children.

Governments vision

All pupils leaving primary school to be physically literate and with the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.

Ashby Fields Primary School vision

At Ashby Fields Primary School we pride ourselves on providing opportunities for our children to participate in active, healthy lifestyles alongside developing good sporting skills through high quality teaching and learning and competitive sport.