Pupil Premium and Sports Grant

The Pupil Premium is additional government funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.

Key principles

Pupil Premium funding is used to support a raft of interventions specifically targeted at the children with Pupil Premium in our academy. As half of the pupils in our academy are covered by this (50%), there are some large-scale interventions and principles outlined below.

The key principles of the use of our Pupil Premium funding are addressing individual need and equality of opportunity where there are difficult circumstances and providing strong additional academic support for our Pupil Premium students with the allocated funding.

Pupil Premium is an identified and monitored attribute for children at a whole school and departmental level. All teaching staff are aware of these children within their classes and are asked to be mindful of when and where support needs to be drawn from the funding to provide equality of opportunity.

PE and Sports Premium

Physical activity has many well-documented benefits for children’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing (increasing self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and lowering anxiety and depression). Research shows that children who are physically active are happier, more resilient and more trusting of their peers. Ensuring that our children have access to daily activity is a priority at Silver Springs, because we know that it can also have wider benefits including; improving behaviour as well as enhancing academic achievement.

At Dixons Silver Springs Primary, PE links across the curriculum as children become more equipped with knowledge of their bodies, linking to biology and physiology whilst learning the importance a good nutrition and diet. Our aim is that children will develop a variety of knowledge, skills, capabilities and attributes that are necessary for, not only physical wellbeing but a combination of mental, emotional and social wellbeing too. We will create tactical thinkers, cooperative learners with active lifestyles.

Making good use of funding

Our approach to the use of additional funding is to ensure a self-sustaining, high quality PE and sports provision for our children. It is important to emphasise that the focus of spending aims to lead to long-lasting impact against our vision that will live on well beyond the Primary PE and Sport Premium funding. We make good use of our funding to ensure that barriers to participation are addressed, so that we can maximise the physical activity of our children.