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PE Teacher Release Funding

20th May 2011 PE Teacher Release Funding

The Secretary of State for Education will be making available funding to release from timetable a PE teacher from every secondary school in England for one day a week in the school years 2011/12 and 2012/13. 

I am sorry that we have not been able to give you information before now, and that there is still some detail that the Department cannot yet confirm. 

Eligible schools: all state maintained secondary schools and Academies; middle-deemed secondary schools and special schools (including non-maintained special schools); and pupil referral units with secondary aged pupils will receive the funding.

Level of funding: this will be a fixed, flat-rate grant .  Schools can choose to use their own budgets to increase the amount of time spent on this role, if they wish.

Funding period: funding will be for two academic years 2011/12 and 2012/13.

Purpose of funding: the PE teacher funding will not be ring-fenced.  The Department encourages schools to use the funding to release secondary PE teachers from timetable for one day a week: to provide specialist PE and sport training in local primary schools and within their own school; to embed good practice and; to provide more competitive sport for all pupils, including the School Games.  The PE teachers can:

• help schools to create sustainable school sport competitions, both within and between schools, involving all pupils;
• help schools to involve their staff, parents, local people and young leaders and volunteers to lead competitive sport; and
• help schools to engage in sport pupils who are less active or who do not have equal access or opportunity to compete (e.g. pupils with disabilities).

Sustainability: Schools should plan from the beginning that funding will end by August 2013.  Schools should seek to embed the work that the released PE teachers do within the school and with local primary schools into their core provision. 

Funding mechanism: the Department is exploring the best way to pay this funding to schools.  We will pass on further details about this as soon as we have it.

Ian Broadbridge PE & Sport TeamDepartment for Education

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