Our Plan & What We Did
The literacy and numeracy catch up premium gives schools additional funding to support Year 7 pupils who did not achieve expected progress in reading and /or mathematics at the end of Key Stage 2(KS2).
Light Hall School’s catch up premium allocation for the current academic year is £12,500.
A summary of how we plan to use the Catch Up Premium to improve progress for students with low starting points is below:
WHAT WE WILL DO THIS YEAR | WHY WE WILL DO IT | WE WILL KNOW WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL WHEN | SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL BUDGET | END OF TERM REVIEW (March 2020) |
Identify target groups of students who have arrived from primary school with low levels of literacy and/or numeracy. This will be based on: · KS2 indicators from primary schools · CAT testing · Baseline tests for core subjects
| To identify target groups of students who need additional support | Target groups have been identified, and are receiving additional support 22 students have been identified as they have an average KS2 score of 95 and below | £5237.50 | 50% of students are working above their target grade of a D at grade “C/B”. |
Literacy: Overseen by SENCO, a combination of using toe by toe and Nessy weekly, ran by LSAs.
| To boost students confidence with reading and writing (spelling) | Students reading age improves, to enable them to better access the wider curriculum | £660
| Impact report not completed due to COVID. |
Literacy: Learning Plus support. A target group of students has to complete follow Lexia Program during form time.
| To boost students confidence with reading and writing | Students reading age improves, to enable them to better access the wider curriculum | Ran by LRC manager – Paid through PP budget £ 1153 per annum
| Impact report for LEXIA not completed due to COVID. |
Literacy: Accelerated Reader, run during English lessons with teacher fortnightly | To boost students confidence with reading and writing | Students reading age improves to enable them to better access the wider curriculum | PP budget used to fund AR £ 3,507
| Impact was inconsistent, HPA PP students reading did not improve. Other HPA students reading did. For 2020/21 AR on hold to be renewed. |
Numeracy: Qualified Maths teacher as tutor to act as a teaching assistant in lessons where the majority of the class are “catch up” pupils to support their progress to help improve maths skills. Small group tuition (1:3) of MPA/LPA pupils. | Research shows high quality teaching assistants boost progress, keeping the students in class maintains consistency in teaching methods | Students make accelerated progress in maths, which also enables them to better access the wider curriculum | Maths Tutor £2,340 | Nine (MPA/LPA) Year 8 pupils were targeted for tuition, in October: 11% were on track by the mid year assessment :44% of pupils were on track.
Impact of tuition for other year groups was not evident due to school closures. |
