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Catch Up Fund Grant

What is the Catch Up Fund Grant?
How have we spent the Catch Up Fund Grant?
Impact of the Catch Up Fund Grant
Plans for the year 2018-19
Student Quotes
What is the Catch Up Fund Grant?

The literacy and numeracy catch-up premium gives state-funded schools, including special schools and alternative provision settings, 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 (KS2).

In 2018 to 2019, the Government have allocated funding to schools on the basis that they receive the same overall amount of year 7 catch-up premium funding they received in 2017 to 2018. It will be adjusted to reflect the percentage change in the size of their year 7 cohort.

The academy  identifies pupils who need extra support from the year 7 catch-up premium and we decide the best way to use the funding. More information on how we plan to spend the grant this year can be found in the ‘plans for the year 2018-19’ section.

Impact of the Catch Up Fund Grant

In the academic year 2017-2018

On entryEnd of Year 7
English53 students joined us with a reading standardised score of less than 100.47 out of the 53 students who were not secondary ready in relation to their reading standardised score achieved‘developing’ or ‘secure’ in their end of year English assessment.
All students achieved at least ‘emerging’ level criteria in their end of year English assessment
Maths42 students joined us with a mathematics standardised score of less than 100.38 out of the 42 students who were not secondary ready in relation to their maths standardised score achieved ‘developing’ or ‘secure’ in their end of year mathematics assessment.
All students achieved at least ‘emerging’ level criteria in their end of year mathematics  assessment
Student Quotes

‘Accelerated Reader has encouraged me to read and keep going’

‘I think it’s helping me doing maths with the sixth formers because they focus on you but when you’re in class it’s not just you there’

‘I do Accelerated Reader. My reading levels have improved by a lot. Sometimes in lessons, my English teacher asks me to read to them. I feel this has helped with my confidence’

‘I do maths with Mrs Plews. It helped me with some of the stuff I struggled with’

‘I read with a sixth former every week. It helps me to understand words’

‘I have an extra literacy lesson each week and I think this helps me with my reading and spelling’

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