Year 7 Literacy and Numeracy Catch-Up Premium

Year 7 Literacy and Numeracy Catch-Up Premium

Context and funding

The literacy and numeracy catch-up premium was introduced by the Government in January 2013 and is paid to schools to rapidly raise levels of achievement for year 7 students attained below a national curriculum level 4 in reading and/or maths, at the end of key stage 2.

The premium is allocated to schools and it is for schools to decide how it is spent, since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for individual students in their care. This school uses the funding to support the needs of the identified students, by ensuring that it impacts on their progress in literacy and numeracy, where identified and further details regarding the specific usage is provided below.

Our Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium funding

Total funding in 2015/16 ?9,500 (19 students)

Vision, strategies and expenditure

At Rye College we have one main objective driving our allocation of funding: to provide additional educational support to improve progress, raise the standard of achievement in literacy and/ or numeracy and improve the life chances for students, eligible for funding.

We monitor the progress of those students eligible for funding and this is continuously analysed to ensure that it is having a positive impact.

To achieve the above objective and enhance the opportunities for our eligible learners we have implemented a variety of intervention strategies, on an individual student basis, which are monitored throughout the academic year. The impact of these strategies is analysed to ensure our objectives will be met. It is also common practice that if an intervention is not having the desired impact or if the needs of the eligible learners change, we will adapt the way in which we support that student.

Some of the key strategies we have identified for 2015-16, specifically for the identified group of students, are outlined below:

One lesson per week the students are taught in a group of no more than 5 students to improve aspects of basic literacy or numeracy.

Three times a year the identified students take part in a day long numeracy and/or literacy workshop delivered by highly effective external providers.

 The selected students take part in a twice weekly programme (for 12 weeks) of peer mentoring delivered by students from Year 9 and 10.

2014-15 Funding Strategy The Catch-Up Funding on 2014-15 was mainly used to fund the materials, training and staffing of The LIT Programme. This is an approach to raising attainment in literacy developed by the Hackney Learning Trust. The effectiveness has recently been assessed by the Education Endowment Foundation. They describe the programme as:

The Literacy Intervention Toolkit (LIT) programme aims to improve the reading ability of children in Year 7 who scored below Level 4 at the end of primary school using a method known as reciprocal teaching. Reciprocal teaching methods encourage children to `become the teacher'. They are taught how to apply four comprehension strategies: summarising, clarifying, questioning, and predicting. These strategies enable children to check that they understand the content of the material they are reading and can make inferences based on what they have read.

The small class sizes required to deliver this programme was also replicated in a Y7 Maths class delivered by a HLTA which was part funded by Catch-Up Funding

Impact Statement 2014-15

English

Students leaving KS2 below Level 4 (national expected level)

12

Students ending Year 7 at College expected level (Grade F or above)

11

% students moving from below expected to expected level

92%

Maths

Students leaving KS2 below Level 4 (national expected level)

17

Students ending Year 7 at College expected level (Grade F or above)

8

% students moving from below expected to expected level

47%

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