Catch Up Funding: Practical Ideas
We're grateful to our Primary Consortia Chairs who shared ways in which they are using their Catch - Up Funding. Please continue to share your examples of good practice with us.
- Appointment of an intervention teacher
- Appointment of a pastoral behaviour support role
- Securing extra hours for TAs and midday supervisors to increase the amount of pastoral support available at break/lunch times
- Purchase of resources to support TA groups
- Improving book stocks to support catch up work
- Extra TA hours for baselining and identifying certain year groups
- Extra catch up provision focussing on maths and phonics
- Additional teacher hours for specific intervention with particular groups
- Establishment of a children's Nightingale Hub, prioritising children’s mental health and wellbeing - Read here more.
- A big intervention drive in Y2 to prepare for phonics
- Redeployment and redistribution of staff to create an extra set for English and Maths
- Funding extra teaching hours, 9am – 11am, three days a week to focus on greater depth children who have fallen below
- Dealing with school's own IT issue, including possible use of dongles.
- Supporting families without internet access
- Appointing an extra teacher to make class sizes smaller and create an extra English class
- Appointing a HLTA as mental health lead