Covid-19 Catch Up Premium

2020/2021

What is the ‘Catch-up premium’?

The literacy and numeracy catch-up premium gives schools additional funding to support year 7 students who did not achieve at the expected score for reading and/or maths at the end of key stage 2 (KS2).

The Covid-19 Catch Up Premium is a source of funding from the government to support the missed learning of all students following the school closures.
A one-off universal £650 million catch up premium for the 2020 to 2021 academic year was issued to ensure that schools have the support they need to help all pupils make up for lost teaching time. Schools will be allocated £80 per student to enable schools to minimise the impact on education following the school closures.

Allocated funding

The Covid-19 Catch Up Premium funding we expect to receive is: £53,600.

Intended Spend 2020 – 2021

There are a number of interventions that we plan to implement using the funding given. The table below provides details of each intervention.

Examples of how this funding has been used

MFL Masterclass

Rationale: to increase the opportunity for language selection at during Year 9 options process

Removal: Year 9 English (language most developed), Year 8 Maths (numeracy better developed in Year 9 but English given more emphasis for a language), Year 7 Science (to avoid English and Maths at such a key age)

Catch-Up Intervention

Rationale: to improve literacy skills for students in Years 7, 8 and 9

Removal: students to be taken out of MFL lessons. Students who require catch-up will not benefit from MFL lessons initially. Not necessarily to be a permanent intervention.