Premium Funding

COVID-19 Catch-up Premium

In June 2020 the government announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up on missed learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  School allocations are calculated on a per pupil basis. Further information regarding the Catch-up Premium can be found here.

Pupil Premium

Publicly-funded schools in England get extra funding from the government to help them improve the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils.  Evidence shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds generally face extra challenges in reaching their potential at school and often do not perform as well as their peers.  The pupil premium grant is designed to allow schools to help disadvantaged pupils by improving their progress and outcomes.  Further information about Pupil Premium funding can be found here.

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Sports Premium

The School Sport and Activity Action Plan set out government’s commitment to ensuring that children and young people have access to at least 60 minutes of sport and physical activity per day, with a recommendation of 30 minutes of this delivered during the school day.  Sports Premium funding is intended to help primary schools to achieve this aim through additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered.  Further information about the Sports Premium can be found here.

Sports Premium Funding at The Ferns Primary Academy

The Ferns Primary Academy’s physical education culture promotes a long term healthy lifestyle that is enjoyable and fulfilling. Our children are inspired to engage in physical activity, raise their attainment, extend their potential and develop a lifelong active lifestyle.

By placing PE and sport are part of a broad and balanced curriculum we provide for our pupils. Our PE and sport aspires to build self-esteem, teamwork and leadership skills enabling each child to be the best they can be by:

Improving health and well-being for all children
Providing high quality opportunities and outcomes
Encouraging community involvement
Promoting lifelong learning, active participation and competition
Raising achievement and supporting excellence