Year 7 Catch-up Funding

Wanstead High School Year 7 Catch-up Funding Statement 2019-2020

Wanstead High School is a fully inclusive school and is committed to ensuring that every student is given the opportunity to reach their full potential. As a publicly funded school we receive funding called the Literacy and Numeracy Catch Up Premium. This initiative gives schools additional funding to support Year 7 students who did not achieve the expected standard (a Scale Score of 100) in Reading or Maths at the end of Key Stage 2.

Level of funding for the academic year 2019-2020: unknown - to be allocated in February 2020.

Inclusion strategy:

Tutor time interventions for Year 7 students in need of literacy and numeracy support are identified by the Inclusion Department in conjunction with the SLT lead. They specifically look at the planning and delivery of small group literacy and numeracy sessions for those students with a Scale Score (SS) of 100 and below.

Strategy:

• Use KS2 baseline data and information from primary transfer visits/primary SENCO
• Conduct CATS and Lucid screening tests at the beginning of Year 7 for the whole cohort
• Cross reference with in-class assessments by the English and Maths departments.
• Lexia to support literacy development
• Symphony to support numeracy development.
• Review progress at each data point to decide whether intervention should cease, change or continue
• Place Information about intervention on the students intervention register to review and adapt provisions
• Communicate with parents regarding interventions for NS students .
• Encourage parents to extend intervention through work with their son/daughter at home
• Additional Tuition in English and Math through S6 Tutoring Academy

Peer Mentors for all Year 7 Catch up Students

Our spending allocations for the past academic year 2018-2019 are set out below: