CATCHUP PREMIUM & TUTORING

St Oswald’s, like every other school in England, has received an amount of money from the Government called “Catch up funding”. It is up to school to decide how to use this extra funding to enable all children to catch up on the education they lost during the first lock down.

At St. Oswald’s we have used it to employ a part time teaching assistant to free up existing teaching assistants to deliver high quality small group and 1-1 interventions in all classes. These interventions will involve children from Year one to Year six. It is hoped that by focusing on gaps in learning, the children will make accelerated progress and hopefully, get back on track for at least, age related expectations, by the end of the year.

Evidence indicates that small group and one to one interventions can be a powerful tool for supporting pupils. High-quality teaching should reduce the need for extra support, but it is likely that some pupils will require high quality, structured, targeted interventions to make progress. These interventions will be carefully targeted through identification and assessment of need and the intensity will be monitored. Some pupils may make quick gains as they return to school full time, so assessment needs to be monitored —in a manageable fashion—over time.

The intervention will have structured supporting resources and lesson plans with clear objectives. Teaching assistants will follow the plan and structure of the interventions. Assessments (test base/White Rose/teacher assessment) will be used to identify appropriate pupils, guides areas for focus and track pupil progress. Connections will be made between the out-of-class learning in the interventions and classroom teaching.