COVID-19 Catch-Up Premium Strategy 2021-22

What is the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Catch-Up Premium?

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) catch-up premium is designed to support primary schools to ensure children catch up as a result of the coronavirus and disruption caused to their education.

For 2020-2021, the government has invested over £1 billion in funding to support children. The allocation of funding is calculated on a per-pupil basis, providing each mainstream school with a total of £80 for each pupil in years reception through to 6. Schools should use this funding for specific activities to support their pupils to catch up for lost teaching over the previous months, in line with the guidance on curriculum expectations for the next academic year.

What does this mean at Marden Primary Academy?

We believe that active, healthy learners will have positive attitudes towards themselves and their learning, and will make the greatest progress. We will work through a tiered approach to ensure that all pupils that have fallen behind are identified, have individual pathways set, are supported to achieve at pace and that their progress is monitored.

We will drive this by means of:

• ‘quality first teaching’, informed by accurate baseline and interim assessments
• targeted academic interventions and support
• considered strategies to promote mental health and physical well-being.

We will invest in IT, PSHE and specific teaching and tutoring programmes.

Our intent:

1. All children will have personalised learning pathways to ensure gaps arising from the impact of COVID-19 are closed
2. Purposeful, well-resourced interventions will take place in managed blocks
3. All children will participate in structured, considered PSHE programmes and activities
4. Effective home learning systems will be in place to ensure remote learning is effective
5. Within Years 3-6, every child will have 1:1 access to a device,
6. Staff will have access to quality professional (Google) training (funded separately) including the Chartered College and National College 
7. Staff will have access to fast, reliable equipment and this will ensure learning can take place in and out of school
8. Online safety protocols for children and colleagues are robust

Total COVID-19 Catch-Up Premium allocated: £21,923