What is Catch-Up Premium?
Year 7 Catch-Up Premium is a type of funding additional to the main school funding. It is received from the government and is allocated to students who failed to achieve a National Curriculum Level 4 at the end of Key Stage 2 in either Mathematics or English reading.
Schools are free to spend the Catch-Up Premium as they see fit within specific parameters.
Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy received £6500 for the year 2012-2013.
Use of the Catch Up Premium
The Year 7 Catch-Up Premium at Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy is used to pay for a range of student support activities and interventions. In the year 2012-2013 these approximate amounts were spent in the following ways;
Extra resources for additional phonics teaching | £270 |
Extra resources for literacy provision | £1250 |
Extra resources for numeracy provision | £700 |
Staff providing additional numeracy provision | £550 |
Staff providing additional literacy provision | £330 |
Staff providing phonics lessons | £1100 |
Weekly reading club | £96 |
One to one paired reading groups | £1480 |
Total: | £6640 |
EVALUATION OF CATCH-UP PREMIUM – 2012/13
The school receives additional funding for each student who enters Year 7, who has a KS2 reading level and / or mathematics level that is below Level 4. We evaluate the impact of this through analysis of student progress, in particular in English and Mathematics.
CATCH UP PREMIUM 2012 / 13 YEAR 7 STUDENTS
Progress in English of Yr. 7 Catch-Up Premium Students in 2012/13:
- On average CU students made 0.7 levels of progress – in line with national expectation
- 89% made or exceeded expected progress – far exceeding current national progress
- 22% exceeded expected progress
Progress in Mathematics of Yr. 7 Catch-Up Premium Students in 2012/13:
- On average CU students made 0.5 levels progress – slightly below national expectation
- 33% made or exceeded expected progress – below current national progress
- 22% exceeded expected progress