Pupil Premium and Sports Grant

Pupil Premium

For the year 2025-26, all schools in England receive £1515 per eligible pupil. During this academic year, they include: children currently on Free School Meals (FSM), children who have received FSM within the last 6 years (Ever6), children who are looked after (CLA) and children of service personnel.

In future years, the term Disadvantaged will be used to include FSM, Ever6 and CLA who are eligible for funding in line with amendments by the DfE.

Further details can be found via the following linked document in the attachments below.

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

The Government’s vision for PE and school sport, supported by the national partners is:

"All pupils leaving primary school 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."

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 school to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. The government has provided double funding since 2018/2019.

Further details can be found via the attachments below.

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.

Swimming

The government requires schools to report on the number of children, in Year 6, who met the national swimming requirements. At Dixons Silver Springs Primary we teach swimming in Year 4. In 2024/25, 68% of our Year 6 pupils met the national requirements.

National Curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety:

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres

• use a range of strokes effectively

• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations