Year 7 Literacy and Numeracy Catch-Up Premium Funding Statement 2014-2015
The literacy and numeracy catch-up premium gives schools additional funding to support year 7
pupils who did not achieve at least level 4 in reading and/or maths at the end of key stage 2 (KS2).
The total amount of funding received by William Brookes for 2014-2015 is £11,500.
How we will spend this allocation
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Additional Teaching staff time in English to allow for small group work in literacy
Additional teaching staff time in Maths to allow for small group work in numeracy
Provision for a ‘Golden Group’ of eligible students, this includes: - Additional English group of 9 students with significant areas of weakness in reading,
spelling and/or writing. The group is supported by a HLTA
- Literacy routine was established
- Assessment 1: Pen Portrait - WRITING ASSESSMENT - composition and effect, structure
and organisation, and grammar and technical accuracy
- Assessment 2: Writing poetry - WRITING ASSESSMENT - three different forms of poetry creativity, language choice and structure/form.
- Assessment 3: Prose Study - READING ASSESSMENT respond to a text following the PEE
paragraph structure (Point, Evidence, Explore effect).
- Assessment 4: Drama study - READING – drawing on their learning of PEE, a vital skill for
GCSE.
- Each student of the GG on entry was tested for reading and spelling – retesting after 10
weeks.
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A further ‘expanded’ GG group created in Humanities from January 2015.
Encompassing Geography, History, RS and PSHE – using Year 7 baseline assessments. All
students below Level 4 were selected.
Level 3 TA as well as a subject specialist TA was deployed to support the Humanities
group
Same literacy routines used in English are reflected in these lessons– ie SPAG and same
forms of written communication (PEE)
9 hours, additional Teaching Assistant with English and Humanities groups
Year 7 Literacy and Numeracy Catch-Up Premium Allocation 2013-2014
The total amount of funding received last year was £15,500.
How we spent this allocation
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Use of HLTAs to lead withdrawal groups in English to improve Literacy
Use of HLTAs to lead withdrawal groups in Maths to improve Numeracy
How the spending made a difference to the students
31 students were eligible for funding support.
For literacy, 15 students had a reading level of 3B on starting with William Brookes. Of these, 66.7%
made 1 full levels progress, 6.25% made 2 levels progress and 20% made one half levels progress. In
writing, 15 students started at Level 3B, 60% made 1 levels progress, 13.3% made 2 levels progress
and 26.7% made half a levels progress.
For numeracy, 16 students started with us at level 3B. 68.75% made 1 full levels progress and 25%
made half a levels progress.