Catch-up Funding: £50,240
Intended Outcomes
The overall intention of the action plan below is to ensure that all pupils feel safe, happy and are ready to learn each day despite uncertainty relating to COVID. Pupils will achieve the targets set in the APA around pupil outcomes and attendance because the targets in the action plan have been achieved.
Specific Outcomes
- To close gaps in learning, in particular reading, as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, with a particular focus on those pupils who are most disadvantaged. Pupils to achieve expected outcomes in line with targets set in the APA.
- To provide an outstanding Quality of Education which engages pupils and raises aspirations. Challenge partners to judge the Quality of Education as outstanding when monitoring visits are completed in the Spring.
Action Plan
At Leigh Academy Dartford we use a tiered approach to spending to balance approaches:
- improving teaching
- targeted academic support and
- wider strategies.
Intervention
Implementation of a full digital strategy for teaching in Y5 through the purchase of 1:1 Chromebooks for every child
Purpose
To give all pupils required skills to become successful digital citizens.
To ensure pupils are able to access and progress in the learning from anywhere, digitally.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
Whole school
Some pupils are not ‘fluent’ in using online learning resources and platforms.
Cost
£25,560
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
96% pupils to be digitally literate.
96% of all pupils know how to keep themselves safe online.
96% of parents engage with Google classroom as a digital platform for communication.
Review
Intervention
Talk for Writing training for all staff
Purpose
To develop teachers’ and TAs’ skills in teaching writing.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
Whole school
Writing outcomes are numerically lower across the academy.
Cost
£1,250
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
70% of pupils to achieve expected in writing by the end of the academic year.
Review
Intervention
TT Education licence
Purpose
To ensure all staff have a solid knowledge of all areas of the curriculum they teach. It will support the development teachers’ knowledge and understanding of foundation subjects
and wider pedagogical issues. This will allow for a breath of curriculum to be delivered confidently and consistently. With good subject knowledge opportunities for writing and cross curricular learning can be further explored.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
All
Not all staff have the background knowledge needed.
Cost
£2,400
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
All lessons across foundation subjects are judged to be at least effective with at least 14% judged as highly effective.
Review
Intervention
1:3 tutoring through the National Tutoring Programme with Protocol Education
Purpose
To have a member of staff who can focus on accelerating learning and addressing key gaps in targeted interventions.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
Y6
Capacity within current staffing does not always give the opportunity to run these.
Cost
£1069
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
Year 6 pupils to achieve expected outcomes predicted in the APA.
70 % of pupils in Year 5 achieve combined expected outcomes. 70% of pupils achieve expected outcomes in reading.
Review
Intervention
1:1 phonics teaching assistant
Purpose
To employ a member of staff to run daily phonics 1:1
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
Y1
Cost
£28.29 for 2 hours a day
£141.45 a week
20 weeks is £2,829
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
Phonics screening – in line with national averages for children passing the test in the summer term.
Review
Intervention
CGP books
Purpose
To close key gaps in reading and writing.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
Y6
Cost
£1000
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
60% of Y6 pupils to achieve combined expected standard.
Review
Intervention
Reading
Purchase of AR books.
Purpose
To purchase new AR books, particularly targeted at the lower levels so that pupils have engaging resources to read and want to read.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
KS2 pupils
KS1 pupils off of RWI
Limited numbers of white and green books.
Cost
£5,000
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
A majority of pupils in each year group are reading at an age appropriate level by year end.
Review
December 2020
£2899 spent so far. Will review further spending in March 2021 to see where the need is for more books with the levels.
Intervention
History
Large ‘wall art style’ history timelines to be purchased for both sites
Purpose
To have historically and mathematically accurate timelines in order to support pupils in developing accurate historical understanding.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
All
Classrooms do not have space to display timelines that give chronological understanding across the whole period of study
Cost
£2840
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
Pupils can accurately (and age appropriately) put events into chronological period.
Review
Intervention
Wellbeing
Implementation of a wellbeing strategy and the resources required to do this.
Purpose
To implement wellbeing moments and strategies across the school day to help pupils develop strategies for managing themselves.
To raise the profile of strategies pupils can use when they’re worried about something.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
All
Pressures of catching up curriculum gaps can sometimes overwhelm time for reflection. Not all staff are confident in the strategies to use to support pupils.
Cost
£1500
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
Worry boxes are used effectively in classrooms.
Pupils can talk about the breathing strategies they use.
Review
Intervention
Travel to Y5 and Y6 experience days at Wilmington Academy.
Purpose
To raise pupils’ aspirations of being secondary-ready.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
Y6
Cost
£540
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
Pupil voice evidences that pupils recognise the role primary education plays in preparing them for secondary school and their onwards careers.
Review
Intervention
Creation of an additional Y6 classroom
Purpose
To accelerate progress by closing gaps.
Target Pupils and Barriers to learning
Y6
Pupils have varying gaps and therefore smaller, targeted teaching groups allow more specific focus on these.
Cost
£2000
Success Criteria (How funding overcomes barriers)
60% of pupils to achieve combined expected at the end of Y6.
Review
Left to spend £4252