Covid Catch Up
Covid Catch Up Recovery Curriculum 2020-2021
Chalton Lower School
The Government has announced that £1 billion of funding has been earmarked for schools to support children and young people to catch up. This includes a one-off universal £650 million catch-up premium for the 2020 to 2021 academic year to ensure that schools have the support they need to help all pupils make up for lost teaching time due to Covid-19. Although all children have had their education disrupted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, it is likely that disadvantaged and vulnerable groups will have been hardest hit.
The school received £3860 based on the October census 2020
Areas to address | Actions | Cost | Monitoring | Timing | Expected Impact |
Additional 1-1 and small group teaching for identified pupils/groups and most vulnerable learners | Increase hours for one TA x 1 hour per day
Catch up support for identified children through 1-1 or small group work in basic skills eg handwriting, spelling, basic sentences, punctuation, times tables, reading |
1 x TA
£3230 3 terms |
Observation of sessions, impact in books | One hour per day, 4x a week for ks1 | Individuals and small groups who were originally below will catch up to their expected standard. |
Additional catch up work in class to address gaps in learning | TA’s to provide additional sessions to support misconceptions and basic skills – handwriting, spelling, basic sentences, punctuation, times tables, reading | 3x TA supporting Literacy and Maths work | GAP book
Evidence in books of concepts addressed |
Literacy and Maths sessions | Individuals and groups to have covered the gaps in their learning so that they will achieve the end of year standards |
Assessment | Staff to identify areas of learning that have major gaps. Teachers will identify the gaps in learning and will adapt their teaching and plans accordingly | Progress meetings, staff meetings | Monitoring ½ termly | Half termly | Analysis of the data will demonstrate that the children have moved forward in their learning and are closer to the expected levels that they would normally be at |
Reading | Additional reading sessions for those pupils that have fallen behind in their progress and need to catch up. | 3x TA | Monitoring ½ termly | Daily sessions | Children’s fluency, understanding and vocabulary will improve and the children will move closer to their expected levels |
Phonics Progression | Daily phonics progression group sessions | 4x weekly phonics groups with TA’s and teachers | Monitoring progression
Phonics tests |
Daily sessions 4x a week | Phonics will be on track to achieve the expected levels |
Literacy Writing | Teachers have a clear understanding of the objective outcomes for the previous year and they will base their planning on incorporating these skills.
Staff to model and scaffold work during Autumn term to ensure pupils understand the outcomes |
Classroom time | Monitoring of planning, work scrutinies, editing of work, feedback to pupils | On going | Pupils will catch up within the year, or they will complete this by the end of year 4 |
Maths | We are following the Enigma Mastery project and are focusing for longer sessions on key concepts to reinforce and to make links through their learning
Misconceptions will be addressed through GAP work outside of the lesson |
Classroom time | Monitoring and feedback to pupils
Tracking of pupils in ½ termly monitoring |
Ongoing | Pupils will have a secure understanding of Maths and will be able to make links wehn problem solving. They will be able to give sensible explanations for their answers.
Pupils will achieve their end of year objectives or at least by the end of year 4. |
PSHE | Circle Time/PSHE will be used to address any concerns the children may have.
Introduction of reflection time and children’s yoga |
Curriculum time | Pupil voice feedback
Daily feedback to staff |
On going | Children [and staff] will demonstrate resilience in all that they encounter |
PE | To ensure that there are 2 hours of PE for the KS1 and KS2 class so that they become active again in their lives | Curriculum time | Pupil voice
Observations of pupils |
On going | Children will be active and challenge themselves to keep fit and healthy |