Primary Recovery Premium
Recovery premium is part of the government’s package of funding to support pupils whose education has been impacted by COVID-19.
It is a time-limited grant providing over £300 million of additional funding for state-funded schools in the 2021/22 academic year and £1 billion across the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years.
The purpose is to ensure:
- Children make accelerated progress in reading, writing and maths
- Children are not disadvantaged in the long term by school absence related to COVID 19 & lock down
- Effective use of the 'Catch Up Premium' funding
- The most effective deployment of resources
- The school has an effective remote learning offer in case of partial or full school closure (see Remote Learning Plan)
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Tier 1: Teaching |
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Desired outcomes |
Actions |
Costs (budget) |
Evaluation and Impact |
Quality First Teaching supported by evidence-informed CPD for teachers and support staff |
· Use performance management meetings to identify CPD for teachers and support staff · Use monitoring evidence to identify CPD for teachers and support staff, in additional to 1:1 support and coaching · Staff meetings target quality first teaching |
T + L Budget/Central Trust Budget |
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Embedding and sustaining research-based teaching strategies (Teaching Framework). |
· Teaching Framework CPD through learning communities. · Appraisal linked to Teaching Framework |
School T + L Budget |
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Curriculum ‘essentials’ for Reading, Writing and Maths identified and taught/revised. |
· First term to focus on consolidating previous year key objectives, alongside current year objectives, with assessment identifying any gaps. · RSMs to focus discussion on identifying gaps, setting end of year cohort and individual targets. |
School T + L Budget |
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Maths; to ensure gaps are covered and children who are needing remote learning can access maths curriculum easily and uninterrupted. |
· Use of White Rose Maths as main scheme. · Teachers to use OAT SOW to plan teaching sequences, using S planning format. · CPD at start of September (Inset and staff meeting time) and ongoing to be planned into staff meeting timetable. |
White Rose subscription £90 Trust Central T + L Budget |
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Broad and engaging Olympus Curious Curriculum that focuses on helping pupils to understand our intellectual concepts. Development, in particular, of critical thinking. |
· Implement Planning Timetable to enable quality planning of themed work. · Through monitoring of planning, pupil work and outcomes, ensure that the Curious Curriculum is embedded, and that outcomes are of high quality. · Identify where support may be needed and provide appropriate intervention |
School T + L Budget |
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Use of PiXL diagnostic assessments used across whole school.
HT/phase leaders using information / data analysis to target interventions and additional staffing. |
· CPD with Pixl partner · Use Autumn Transition Package to identify gaps in pupil knowledge (via QLA) · Analyse QLAs · Teachers to adapt cohort planning in response to assessments. · Intervention programme in place to deliver PixL Therapies (TA led): Years 2, 3, 4 and 5, 3 hours support for each class in groups of up to 6 children. |
TA hours to enable intervention: £2861.23 |
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Ensure children achieve expected level in phonics screening before end of KS1 (year 1 or Year 2 as appropriate). Addressing Phonic and Early Reading progress |
· Use phonics screening to identify gaps in pupil knowledge · Purchase additional Phonic readers from SoundsWrite Scheme · Analyse results to identify specific sound gaps · Intervention support, which focuses on identified gaps (TA and Teacher led): Years 1 and 2, 1.5 hours a week each class. |
Phonic Reading Resources: £1000 TA hours to enable intervention: £2861.23 |
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Ensure any KS2 child who hasn’t achieved phonics pass by end of KS1, has access to high quality phonics teaching in KS2. |
· Soundswrite KS2 programme CPD |
£200 |
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English; use of Oral Storytelling to enhance writing opportunities and engage all children. All children to develop stronger oracy skills through explicit teaching of oracy. |
· CPD for teachers · Resources purchased to support teachers. · Engagement with Voice 21 project across academic year · Teachers to include oral storytelling in each theme across the year.
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Resources £100 |
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Ensure high expectations of attainment and progress are maintained, as well as continuity and progression in learning.
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· Use staff meetings, phase meetings and individual work with staff to ensure that they are using high quality resources to support quality first teaching. · Access to OAT portal and resource/workbooks. · Explicit teaching of metacognition and ‘Successful Learners’; ELLI and Purple Learners. · Staff fully engage in a planned programme of moderation activities to quality assure assessment judgements, including with other Trust schools, for example in EYFS Baseline Assessment. |
School T + L Budget and Trust Central T + L Budget |
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Introduction of SeeSaw to replace Tapestry and Google Classroom; giving one approach to remote and blended learning across KS1 and KS2 |
· Launch Seesaw with children and families · Teachers to attend CPD · Primary SLT to monitor use of Seesaw and pupil interaction · See also Remote Learning Plan |
School Assessment Budget and Trust Central T + L Budget |
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Explicit and implicit teaching of SEL, through weekly Jigsaw lessons, daily SEL time and with the use of key texts. |
· HT/PHSE Lead to monitor through pupil voice and class floor books · Reinforce through the assembly programme, as well as key texts and through the learning environment / displays |
School T + L Budget |
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All children to have access to a rich outdoor learning programme to include Forest School.
Targeted nurture programmes led by both teachers and teaching assistants to support to increase wellbeing and improve behaviour.
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· CPD Inset September – including launch of new FS SOW · All classes to timetable a forest school session each week throughout the academic year. · All classes to timetable a block of teaching in the Meadow. · All classes to plan for outdoor learning across the curriculum when possible. · Nurture group to run for targeted children – social and emotional, behavioural support; 2 hour sessions for 6 week blocks – 2 groups of 6 children to run each week (Year 1 group and KS2 group) |
Forest School Leader £2000 (TBC)
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Tier 2: Targeted Academic Support |
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Desired outcomes |
Actions |
Costs |
Evaluation and Impact |
Guided groups led by teachers and support staff informed by PiXL diagnostic assessments, marking, diagnostic questioning within lessons, and joint assessment within lessons, by teachers and support staff.
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· Analyse PIXL QLAs to identify the right children and the gaps on which to focus · Use diagnostic marking in lessons to identify further the gaps in pupil knowledge · Teachers work closely with support staff to assess, identify and target interventions · Intervention programme in place to deliver PixL Therapies (teacher led): Years 2, 3, 4 and 5, 3 hours support for each class in groups of up to 6 children. · Interventions are outlined on Edukey, monitored and evaluated. · Primary SLT to monitor effectiveness of interventions, and value for money |
Additional TA hours – 10 hours per week (£3731.40) |
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RSMs for staff to discuss individuals and share progress. Leadership Team and SENCo to facilitate and provide support |
· Assessment lead to attend assessment network meetings · Staff prepare effectively for RSMs, using available data and assessment information, alongside knowledge of pupils · Actions from RSMs are followed up, monitored and reviewed |
School Assessment Budget and Trust Central Assessment Budget |
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Tier 3: Wider Strategies |
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Desired outcomes |
Actions |
Costs |
Evaluation and Impact |
Development of role of parent link. |
· Family link to work for one morning each week with vulnerable learners, including establishing links with parents of vulnerable learners. |
School Budget (staffing already in place) |
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Parents to have access to parenting support; including advice on helping children manage anxiety and other issues raised by COVID. |
· School Nurse Referrals completed where appropriate. · SEND team meetings fortnightly to review needs and identify new needs · Termly meetings with School Nurse. |
School SEND Budget |
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Total Catch-up funding |
£12000 |
Total Cost of Catch-up plan |
£11843.86 |