Year 7 Catch Up

Year 7 Catch-Up Premium 2017-18 The literacy and numeracy catch-up premium gives schools additional funding to support year 7 pupils who did not achieve age-related expectations (ARE) in English or Maths at the end of KS2. The school received £12,396 in relation to those students below the expected level in English and/or Maths in 2016-17; projected funding for 2017-18 is costed below on the basis that figures will be approximately the same but with higher numbers of students in the overall Y7 cohort; current Y7 also have a high proportion of students with borderline KS2 scores accounting for slightly higher spend.

2017-18 Strategy Approach Continue to roll out Accelerated Reader to all of KS3 (all of Y7 & 8 cohorts) Implement baseline testing systems in both English and Maths in Y7 Implement a Talk4Writing strategy across the school, focusing on Y7 transition first Undertake inference training for all teaching staff, focusing on Y7 and transition first Continue to develop role of primary transition working group High Borrans – Y7 specific residential trip Breakfast/homework club for Y7 working below ARE led by HLTA/support staff Total

Cost

Desired outcome

£4,374.50

Improve the reading capacity in KS3 in order to better prepare students for the challenges of new GCSEs in KS4; improve student’s ability to undertake extended writing tasks; ensure that at least 80% of catch-up students in Y7-8 are meeting ARE in English. Expand the programme further to ensure greater impact eg ‘Adopt a Reader’ scheme and establishing ‘Home Connect’ facility with parents.

£1,277

Improve the accuracy of assessment in Year 7 against KS2 starting points; provide staff with a clearer understanding of progress; help to avoid the Y7 ‘dip’; better prepare staff to teach appropriate curriculum content/devise catch-up lessons. Ensure that at least 70% of catch-up students in Y7-8 are meeting ARE in Maths and 80% in English.

£700 (staff training)

Ensure that the good work carried out in feeder primaries is not lost when our students arrive in Y7; play a leading role in the Local Authority KS3 T4W pilot scheme and review of KS3 curriculum; embed T4W practices in teaching across the school; improve the quality of writing of students.

£70 (cost of resources; training covered by SLA) £1,600 (supply costs)

Ensure that staff have better quality, bespoke CPD regarding reading and writing and how to improve this; undertake a body of work to implement inference practices; set up cross-curricular literacy approaches to support students eg ‘lighthouse’ words.

Ensure that students are better prepared for their transition to secondary, especially PP students and those with weaker English and Maths scores.

£1,600

Improve motivation, resilience and confidence of weakest Y7 students, including PP.

£5,076

£14,697

Improve motivation, resilience and confidence of weakest Y7 students, including PP. Increase opportunities for students to catchup/complete English and Maths homework with guided support.

Impact assessment 2016-17 Approach Cost Establish and implement Accelerated Reader programme for all Y7 (and weakest readers in Y8) from January 2017 onwards Primary transition working group established

£4,374.50

Impact Reading culture now starting to spread throughout the school and become firmly established. Significant student-buy in to the Accelerated Reader programme leading to strong progress: 57% of students taking part now have a reading age greater than their chronological age; 62% have made progress in their reading age; students “in need of urgent intervention” has decreased to 10.

Increased borrowing in the LRC; 62% of students surveyed have said that they now read more often than they did before. 74% of the Year 7 cohort at ARE in English by Autumn 2017 (start of Y8). X% of catch-up students made positive progress in English

£1,600 (supply costs)

Almost ¾ of the Y7 catch up students attended a curriculum opportunity in either Music, Science or PE; positive impact on attendance rates and low number of behaviour incidents for these students in comparison to the rest of the cohort.

High Borrans – Y7 specific trip Breakfast/homework club for Y7 working below ARE led by HLTA/support staff

£1,600

Of those Y7 students attending the High Borrans trip below ARE, almost 50% were at developing/securing in English and Maths by the end of the summer term.

Improved motivation, resilience and confidence of weakest Y7 students, including PP. Increase opportunities for students to catchup/complete English and Maths homework with guided support. Of those attending in Y7 attending the ‘Connect’ registration group, punctuality rates were high (90%+) and numbers on homework detention low; those attending all at minimum of developing/securing in Maths and English by the end of Y7.

Total

£12,650.50

£5,076

Profile of Y7 cohorts 2016-17 / 2017-18