what is catch up funding?
The government announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up on lost learning time due to school closure. This is especially important for students from the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds. This funding includes:
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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
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a £350 million National Tutoring Programme to provide additional, targeted support for those children and young people who need the most help, which includes:
January 2021 Update: The government has announced a further recovery support package so children and young people can catch up on missed learning and development due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be supported with a new £700 million package for England.
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Target: To use the national tutoring funding, pupil premium recovery funding and School led Grant to enable targeted students and the school community to:
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Catch up with missed curriculum
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close the gap’ on their peers
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have access to opportunities to improve their social and mental wellbeing as well as life experiences
Performance indicators
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Students have actively engaged with the programmes with a clear impact on learning.
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Student feedback and staff voice indicate students have made progress on identified areas of learning.
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Progress check data indicate that targeted students have made progress in line with their peers
Funding and school context
Dormers Wells is an inner city, mixed, state school located in Southall, West London, an area with one of the highest levels of multiple deprivation in the country. Over 11% of the students are identified as SEN, English is not the first language for 64.6%, 19.1% are entitled to FSM, 33% are pupil premium, and mobility in the school is considerably higher than the national average.
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