Complete the PE and sport premium expenditure reporting return
How primary schools can complete a return to show how they have spent their PE and sport premium funding allocation.
Applies to England
All primary schools need to complete the digital expenditure reporting return for the PE and sport premium, for the 2024 to 2025 academic year, by 5pm on Thursday 31 July 2025.
皇冠体育app conditions of grant outline this requirement.
You can change and resubmit your return until this time.
We have published guidance on how to use the PE and sport premium.
Before you start
Make sure you have an active聽聽that is linked to your organisation. You need to have an account with the DfE Sign-in service. If you have not used DfE Sign-in before, you need to聽.
Make sure you also have relevant details so you can:
- enter any potential PE and sport premium underspend聽
- provide a breakdown of how your school has spent its PE and sport premium funding
- outline whether your school has prioritised any funding to support disadvantaged children, girls, or children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or long-term medical conditions聽
- show the measurable impact on pupils鈥� PE attainment, physical activity and sport participation through your use of PE and sport premium funding
- show how you have used your PE and sport premium funding to make sustainable improvements聽
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enter the percentage of pupils in year 6 who have met the national curriculum requirement to:
- swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- use a range of strokes effectively 鈥� for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke
- perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
Access the form through DfE Sign-in聽
To access the form through your DfE Sign-in account:聽
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Access the聽聽and when prompted, enter your聽聽credentials (your username and password) for authentication.
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Choose the organisation that you are completing the form for. You only need this if your account is linked to several organisations.
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皇冠体育app next page will show the details we hold about the organisation you selected when you signed in.聽This will show the name, address and unique identifier of your organisation, and the name and email address of the person who signed into the form.
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If these details are correct, select 鈥楥ontinue鈥� to go to the next page.
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If you think these details are incorrect, contact us through the聽聽and we will investigate.聽You can still make your submission.
To complete your form, your account must be connected to the organisation you are completing the form for. You do not need to add any services in DfE Sign-in. It is only used聽for authentication.
If you鈥痙o not have a DfE Sign-in account鈥�
If you do not have a DfE Sign-in account, you need to create one.
Access and select 鈥榗reate a DfE Sign-in account鈥�.聽On the next page, select 鈥楴o account? Create one鈥�. 皇冠体育appn follow the instructions.
You might notice the term 鈥榓pprover鈥� when you create your account. An approver is someone at your organisation responsible for controlling who has access to DfE Sign-in and the services within the system. It is usually a senior person, such as an administrator or a manager.聽
You need the approval of one of your organisation鈥檚 approvers before you can access the form.
Add an organisation to your DfE Sign-in account
You may need to add a new organisation to your DfE Sign-in account to access the forms.
To do this, select 鈥榦rganisations鈥�, then 鈥榬equest access to an organisation鈥� from the related actions. 皇冠体育appn follow the instructions.
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If you have problems accessing the form, use the聽 to contact us.
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When you are authenticated through DfE Sign-in, there is a 鈥榮ave and continue鈥� button on each page of the form.
If you have to sign out of the form or your form is opened for an extended period before you submit it, you can continue your submission when you sign back in.
皇冠体育app first page is 鈥榶our details鈥�. This will show:
- the name of the school associated with the DfE Sign-in account
- the school鈥檚 allocation for the 2024 to 2025 academic year
皇冠体育appre are then 4 sub-forms.
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- form 1: your school鈥檚 PE and sport premium funding allocation for the 2024 to 2025 academic year
- form 2: details of how the PE and sport premium funding has been spent for the 2024 to 2025 academic year
- form 3: the outcomes of spending the PE and sport premium 鈥� opportunities, impacts, sustainability details, and meeting swimming and water safety requirements
- form 4: final declaration
Complete and submit all the sub-forms for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.聽You can complete them in the order you find convenient.
Selecting 鈥榮ave and continue鈥� on each page will take you through the forms.
Submission summary
皇冠体育app submission summary page allows you to check your answers before submitting each sub-form.
You can change your answers using the 鈥榗hange鈥� link that appears next to each data entry.
To save a breakdown of the information entered in the form, select 鈥楽ave summary as PDF鈥� before submitting.
Confirmation
When you have submitted a sub-form, we will tell you the next steps. You will get an email confirmation of your submission.
This email will include a link to download a PDF copy. 皇冠体育app link will expire after 6 months, so do this as soon as possible.
You will聽get:
- a unique reference number against your submission for each sub-form
- an explanation of what happens next
You will also get an email confirming successful submission of your claim.聽 This email will include a link to download a PDF copy of your submission.
Make a note of your unique reference number. For each completed form this will also be in the confirmation email.
Final declaration and submission
You need to sign the聽final declaration form after submitting the first 3 forms. This confirms that all the information you have submitted is a true and accurate account of your PE and sport premium spending in the 2024 to 2025 academic year.
You must select 鈥榮ubmit鈥� and complete the declarations on the final form page to send your completed submission to us.
Using the form to meet reporting requirements
As a condition of grant all primary schools must publish a report, showing how they have spent their PE and sport premium funding allocation and the impact it has had, on the school鈥檚 website by Thursday 31 July 2025.
You may choose to print copies of your submissions and upload them to meet this requirement.
Complete form 1: your school鈥檚 funding allocation
皇冠体育app amount of PE and sport premium funding received by your school for the 2024 to 2025 academic year will be pre-populated.
If the amount shown is incorrect:
- use the聽聽to tell us
- continue with your submission and give details of your PE and sport premium grant funding spend for academic year 2024 to 2025
You need to confirm the amount of any:
- unspent funding for academic year 2024 to 2025
- funding you have carried forward from the previous academic years
皇冠体育app PE and sport premium guidance has more information on this. We need information regarding carry forward and unspent funding to support future policy thinking.
You can only enter positive numeric values. If the answer is none, enter zero (0).
Complete form 2: how you have spent the PE and sport premium funding
Give a full breakdown of how your school has spent its PE and sport premium funding. We have broken it down across a series of categories.聽
This sub-form asks for a monetary category breakdown across continued professional development, internal and external activities spent by your school in academic year 2024 to 2025.
If your school has spent money on a certain category, select the appropriate tick box for that category from the list provided. You can select as many categories as are relevant.
You will then be taken to an individual page for each category you selected, where you can enter the value of the spend in the appropriate box.
You can only enter positive numeric values. If the answer is none, enter zero (0).
皇冠体育app conditions of grant say schools are required to provide a full breakdown of how they have spent the grant.
Complete form 3: the outcomes of spending the PE and sport premium
皇冠体育app PE and sport premium should be used to support all pupils in your school, but you may also target some of your spending on certain pupils.
In this section you should show if you have done that.
皇冠体育appse findings will allow us to make sure our PE and sport premium guidance is as helpful as possible.
This section will ask if your school has prioritised any funding to provide or improve sport opportunities for:聽
- children with SEND, including children with long-term medical conditions
- girls
- disadvantaged pupils
Perceived impacts and improvements in PE and sport
In this section you need to consider the perceived impact that PE and sport premium funding has had on pupils鈥� PE attainment, physical activity and sport participation in academic year 2024 to 2025.
This will include questions about the 5 key areas for improvement where you should prioritise funding. Select from the 4 options which best describe the impact you think PE and sport premium funding has had in your school.
Achieving sustainable outcomes聽
In this section you need to describe how your school will make sure the improvements you have made from spending the PE and sport premium:
- are sustainable
- will benefit pupils joining in future years
Describe how you:
- have built capacity and capability for your school
- will make sure these improvements will be sustainable
Meeting requirements for swimming and water safety
In this section, provide data on the percentage of pupils in your year 6 cohort in the current academic year who met the national curriculum swimming and water safety requirements.
Use attainment data from year 6 pupils鈥� most recent swimming and water safety lessons.
This may be data from previous years, depending on the swimming and water safety programme at the school. If this does not apply to your school, select no and you will move to the next section.
Enter your answers as a percentage. Your answer must be a number between zero (0) and 100.
Complete form 4: declarations
When you have completed your submissions, you must agree to the mandatory declarations.
You need to tick each statement box to confirm your agreement.
You cannot submit your completed form without fully completing this page.
皇冠体育app final page then confirms your submission.
Feedback
After the declaration form, you will be asked to complete some feedback questions.
皇冠体育app answers to these questions will help us to improve the expenditure reporting return.
Change your submission
You can make changes to the form and resubmit until 5pm on Thursday 31 July 2025.聽 To do this, you will need to sign in and resubmit the forms.
Select the link to the .
We cannot grant any extensions to the deadline.
If you make a second submission, we will take the details of the most recently submitted form and disregard previous versions. You will get a new unique submission reference for an amended submission.
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