Catch Up Funding: Impact in 2018-19

As a publicly funded school Heart of England school receives funding called the literacy and numeracy catch-up premium. This gives schools additional funding to support Year 7 pupils who did not achieve the expected standard in reading or maths at the end of key stage 2. In 2018/19 we received an additional £12,628 allocated on the same basis as 2016 to 2017, adjusted to reflect the percentage change in the size of the year 7 cohort, based on the October 2018 census.

Where we spent the Year 7 Catch Up Premium (2018-19)

As part of our work during 2018-19, we have identified specific areas of focus that we will target for students in the academic year 2018-19 to better enable students to make the best possible progress.  Those students requiring additional catch up in maths will also be addressing more explicitly aspects of problem solving and reasoning as a feature of their mathematical skills to develop.  For those students who require additional help with reading, we will continue to embed our work in rolling out Thinking Reading and Reading buddies.  Our own analysis has shown that there is an additional gap with comprehension that we need to address so we will invest in resources to better enable us to do this and ensure that students make the best possible progress.

In the data summary below, we show the progress of this group of students by the end of Year 7.  Progress was measured by summative assessment at the end of the academic year, further information on our approach to assessment can be found on the school’s website.

English

Maths