Catch Up Funding 2020

Oakfield Primary School Narrowing the Gap – Including allocation of DfE catch-up funding

The government has announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up.

Schools’ allocations are calculated on a per pupil basis, providing each mainstream school with a total of £80 for each pupil in years reception through to 6. This means we will receive £16 800 this year to help us support our pupils. Schools have to use this funding for specific activities to support their pupils to catch up for lost teaching over the previous months. Schools have the flexibility to spend their funding in the best way for their cohort and circumstances. To support us to make the best use of this funding, the Education Endowment Foundation has published a support guide for schools with evidence-based approaches to catch up for all pupils. We have considered this when planning our approach for the use of this funding.

The barriers we need to address to help pupils catch up Adverse experience of lockdown and school closures, resulting in anxiety and impacting on mental wellbeing.

What we plan to do

Learning behaviours impacted due to extended absence from school

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‘Zones of Regulation’ implemented across Ks1 and KS2 to support self-regulation Identified pupils to access counselling from pupil counsellor Forest Schools training for identified staff members and programmes undertaken for identified pupils Adaptation of timetabling across school, initially for Autumn term, to provide shorter, more accessible sessions as children rebuild concentration and learning stamina Introduction of daily ‘Look! Listen! Think!’ session to improve listening skills in Year 1 to 6.

How we will check that our plan is making a difference  Pupils are able to manage emotions and access learning  Individual pupils are provided appropriate support leading to improved outcomes  Alternative provision in place to meet the needs of identified pupils  Improved concentration evident in all year groups  Pupils able to remain on task for the duration of task completing work to a high standard

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Lost learning for all pupils across Years 1 to 6 due to school closure and resulting incomplete school year

Impact of lockdown on EYFS pupils who need increased opportunities for independent and collaborative learning

Gaps in phonic learning for pupils in Y1, Y2 and Y3

Loss of reading stamina across Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

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Purchase of specific physical resources required to support catch up in maths  Subscribe to high quality online learning platforms to support learning both in the classroom and, in the event of school closure, at home.  Additional HLTA hours to provide intervention to identified pupils/groups.

Regular review through pupil progress meetings  Purchase of resources to support independent and collaborative learning  Implementation of NELI programme to support the improvement of oral language skills for identified pupils  Purchase of further phonetically matched reading books to supplement current stock.  Purchase of sets of phonetically matched guided reading books for use with intervention groups.  Additional daily phonics session for all pupils plus intervention for target pupils.  Phonics CPD for Y3 teacher to address gaps from Y2 phonic learning  Purchase of class sets of carefully chosen texts to engage and enthuse pupils

 Identified individual/groups of children with significant gaps show accelerated progress  Pupil attainment and progress as expected by July 2021

 Evidence of accelerated progress in acquisition of oral language skills for targeted pupils  Percentage of pupils attaining GLD in line with national  Pupils have access to a wide range of appropriate reading materials  Targeted pupils in Y3 attain phonics check  Y2 pupils caught up and at expected by end of Autumn term  Percentage of pupils attaining PSC is in line with national

 Pupils have access to appropriate, engaging reading materials  Pupil engagement with and enjoyment of reading increases, evidenced through pupil feedback

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Retained catch up funding planned expenditure

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Planned activity

Allocation

Trust priorities – EY and curriculum implementation School catch up contingencies Phonics and early reading development TA development programme – teaching and learning Online learning resources Online pedagogy - CPD

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