St Mary's Catch Up Strategy Statement 2020 - 2021 | St Mary's Church of England VA Primary School Thornbury

To enable schools to address learning lost during lockdown the government have given every school extra funding to support the catch up of children's learning.

Having considered where the main gaps are at St Mary's we have put together a 'Catch Up' Strategy which we will be using from Term 2. We have combined the catch up funding with pupil premium funding as part of the strategy.

Pupil ‘Catch Up’ Strategy Statement

Vision Statement

We live and learn by our Christian Values in an inclusive, supportive and caring environment.

‘For nothing will be impossible with God’

Luke 1 v37

School overview

Metric	Data
School name	St Mary’s CEVA Primary School
Pupils in school	209
Proportion of disadvantaged	4.7%
Proportion of SEND	6.6% (on reg, non EHCP)
Proportion of EHCP	1.4%
Catch up allocation 2020 - 2021	£16000
Publish date	September 2020
Review date	July 2021
Statement authorised by	K Joyce
Chair of Governors	Ann Edis

Strategy aims for disadvantaged pupils

Measure	Activity
Objective 1	Reading and oracy development
Objective 2	Focus tuition to address gaps in writing and maths in order to ensure they make 3 levels of progress.
Barriers to learning	Social + emotional concerns which impact on learning. Wider reading opportunities. Attendance issues.
Projected spending	£10,700 (PP budget)

Teaching priorities for current academic year

Aim	Target	Target date
Progress in Reading	Achieve national average or above in every class 80% - 90%. Pupils achieve their expected predicted outcomes by the end of the academic year 2020 – 2021.	Sept 21
Progress in Writing	Achieve national average or above in every class 70% - 80%. Pupils achieve their expected predicted outcomes by the end of the academic year 2020 – 2021.	Sept 21
Progress in Maths	Achieve national average or above in every class 70% - 85%. Pupils achieve their expected predicted outcomes by the end of the academic year 2020 – 2021.	Sept 21

Targeted academic support for current academic year

Measure	Activity
Objective 1	All staff to provide quality first teaching, staff meetings, reviews, observations will feed into quality of teaching and learning is of a good standard across the school Staff meetings, INSET and CPD will reinforce all aspects.
Objective 2	Planning, sequencing and assessing of writing in KS1. Quality phonic teaching and well planned programmes support the learning. Extra teacher employed to support.
Barriers to learning	Ensuring catch up with phonics, building up writing stamina and increased reading. Stamina of pupils within learning programme.
Projected spend	£14000

Wider strategies for current academic year for disadvantaged and SEN pupils

Measure	Activity
Objective 1	Use of Boxall profiling system to identify further concerns with children
Objective 2	Support for individual pupils to ensure they are on track, attending and their health and wellbeing is addressed so that they are confident about coming to school. Use of outside agencies, EWO, EP, CAHMs, Inclusion + Behaviour support. School ELSA
Objective 3	Play based learning programme for targeted pupils in KS1
Barriers to learning	Anxiety levels of children, support for families.
Projected spending	£2000 (will include PP funding).

Monitoring and Implementation

Area	Challenge	Mitigating action
Teaching	Teachers have enough time to develop QFT and have clarification of school policy approaches. TAs impact learning.	Staff meeting, INSET, LA advisors will support process. Classroom Profiles, teaching and learning reviews, learning walks, pupil conferencing.
Targeted support	Ensuring interventions, catch up learning is being completed and impacting on the pupils.	PP, SEN, Maths, Reading, Writing leads have release time for review.
Wider strategies	Working with outside agencies, ensuring families are engaged with the school so that strategies agreed are followed through.	Working closely with LA and wider agencies to support children and families.