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Catch-Up Statement

Year 7 Catch Up

We believe that every school has a duty to ensure that each individual child is entitled to the best possible chance of achieving their potential.

Any KS3 student who joined Kingsmead with a KS2 result that was below the expected standard (Students not achieved a score of 100+ in English and/or Maths at the end of Key Stage 2) is entitled to additional intervention from the government’s catch up premium. This is to improve their literacy and numeracy skills to enable them to succeed throughout school and make their expected progress. Kingsmead will provide additional intervention to those who struggle with literacy and numeracy through targeted interventions.

We plan to ensure that we use our Year 7 Catch-Up funding to address the shortfall of those students who joined our school below the ‘secondary-ready’ threshold.

The new KS2 assessment system produced standardised scores and the following proportions of students are now determined as not being secondary-ready in the current Year 7-8 cohorts are:

Year

English (Reading)

Maths

 

Sub-Secondary Ready

%

Sub-Secondary Ready

%

7

54

26%

52

25%

8

62

29%

60

28%

 

September 2018 to August 2019:

Kingsmead received £15,151 of Year 7 Catch-Up Funding from the Education Funding Agency in the current financial year.

Aim

To raise standards of Literacy and Numeracy for those students joining the school below the required end of KS2 standards

Actions

Accelerated Reader scheme

Literacy Intervention

Reading Intervention

Spelling Intervention groups

Numeracy intervention groups

Measurable Outcomes

Improved performance against target for Maths and English. Improved Reading age

 

Outcomes 2018-2019:

The Year 7 Catch-Up cohort are now tracked as a specific group via our SISRA data programme:

Subject

No. of Students Below Secondary Ready on Entry

Percentage of students making more than expected progress

Percentage of students making expected progress

Percentage of students making less than expected progress

English

62

67%

33%

0%

Maths

60

85%

15%

0%

 

These students continue to be tracked following their flightpath following the new 9-1 grading system.

 

September 2019 to August 2020:

Kingsmead is due to receive £15,151 of Y7 Catch-Up Funding from the Education Funding Agency in the current financial year on March 1st 2020.

Aim

To raise standards of Literacy and Numeracy for those students joining the school below the required end of KS2 standards

Actions

Accelerated Reader scheme

Maths Whizz programme

Teaching assistant support for Maths

Teaching assistant support for English

Measurable Outcomes

Improved performance against target for Maths and English