Becket Keys - Church of England Secondary School

Becket Keys

COVID-19 catch-up premium (including 16-19 tuition)

COVID-19 catch-up premium spending: summary

Summary information
Total number of pupils:	1070	Amount of catch-up premium received per pupil:	£54.47
Total catch-up premium budget:	£58,280
Additional 16-19 Funding	£906

Strategy Statement

The school’s catch up priorities are also those of the Russell Education Trust. They also describe the core approaches taken, intended to help students catch up on missed learning and the overall aims of the strategy. They are

Curriculum Modification for Year 10-13

Years 11 and 13 missed significant elements of their examination courses due to lockdown. At the time, these priorities were put together these students also faced a likely change to the assessment model for their examinations. This turned out to be relatively limited, but it is still possible, at the time of writing (Dec 2020), that further changes will be made. Curriculum modification was necessary to ensure that specification content could be covered given the restrictions of lockdown without detriment to student outcomes.

There was an impact for years 10 and 12 too as they were unlikely to be able to start their examination courses in the normal way and the impact of this had to be mitigated.

Developing the Digital Curriculum

This was to support the initiative above and ensure that a blended learning approach would be successful in the event of students having to self-isolate. In addition, it was to enhance the future delivery of minority and/or hard to staff subjects post-COVID. All students self-isolating benefit from blended learning from our VLE, MS Teams (live teaching) and Show My Homework – our main communication tool.

Reducing the Gap for Disadvantaged – digitally, socio-economically, SEND, Y7

Differential engagement in learning and effectiveness of this has not only limited all students learning but there is a risk of increased gaps between students and student groups. This presents ongoing challenges during this academic year. Circumstances for students who have to isolate are different to those during lockdown when it applied to all students, and this needs to be accounted for.

Even without COVID, the school is always mindful that an attainment gap can develop and grow during secondary education, whether for an individual or a group. A strategic aim is for us to address this and as and when it occurs. COVID requires us to work on it now to limit further impact caused by the disruption.

SEND students have required a great deal of support and intervention during lockdown and since with many of them being taught in school or with a specific provision provided by staff on a 1:1 basis. Additional new staff have been brought in to assist with this and additional resources have been created. Annual reviews have all included details of how students are coping or not and 1 page profiles have been re-written to include new strategies to support staff and students.

Emotional & Mental Health support for students and staff.

Students and staff dealt with a range of emotional stress emerging directly from lockdown or indirectly because of the impact it has had on their families. Identification and support for those who needed it was an important factor on the return to school.

Barriers to learning

Barriers to future attainment
Academic barriers:
A	Students in examination year groups who missed a substantial part of their teaching in normal classroom conditions are most at risk of their life chances suffering as a result of covid. In particular, this affects Year 11 because Year 13 classes are smaller and ‘normal conditions’ were more possible during lockdown.
B	Students in non-examination year groups who need to catch up on missed learning.
C	Professional development needs for teachers who missed half of their initial teacher training or NQT programmes.

Additional Barriers

External barriers:
D	Attendance is a key issue. At the start of the academic year, it was particularly important to establish routines and capacity to respond to individual occasions of student absence.
E	Students who present with emotional needs, including those related to trauma, and may request access to office staff or have hardship concerns as a result of parents losing income.
F	Some families have limited access to technology and broadband.

Planned expenditure for current academic year - Covid Catch Up Funding

Please note, these are not the only initiatives being undertaken by departments and year teams to ensure students are on track post COVID lockdown. Subject Development plans and Year Group Development plans outline all strategies. Below are the strategies using post lockdown 'catch up' funding.

Quality of teaching for all
Action	Intended outcome and success criteria	What’s the evidence and rationale for this choice?	Staff lead	Cost
Art equipment	Equal access to resources	Students who have missed teaching time to be given specific equipment for home use.	DBA	£400
Drama teachers	Team teaching allowing for modelling and intervention.	Ensure CPD for less experienced staff	LBA	£150
English SPAG starters	Improved SPAG standards across all year groups.	Post covid assessments indicate impact of disrupted provision.	AFO	£200
Maths coaching and observation	Improve quality first teaching, including in A level	New and less experienced staff need to develop their teaching with effective differentiation and the new demands of first year A level	HBA	£2100
Music blended learning	Ensure a blended learning approach is ready	Resources need to be adapted in the event of student self-isolation	PRO	£300
Music resources	Improve the support materials	Some students did not engage fully during lockdown.	PRO	£200
Science peer observation	Improved quality of teaching and learning	Less experienced staff need coaching to ensure rapid progress following lockdown	HMA	£250
Science resources	Ensure a blended learning approach is ready	Resources need to be adapted and purchased to ensure good provision in the event of student self-isolation. This includes for year 7 students who missed year 6 provision and online platform for homework.	HMA	£1500
Spanish resources	Additional resources to ensure progress	Extra grammar and work books for students to work at home, also includes cost of printing differentiated materials.	PMA	£300
Home learning books	Additional books to support home learning	Ensure a consistent quality of resource	ASE	£6200
Total budgeted cost:				£11,700
Targeted support
Action	Intended outcome and success criteria	What’s the evidence and rationale for this choice?	Staff lead	Cost
English intervention KS4 - tutoring	Ensured desired level of understanding in particular topics	Analysis of progress shows some students need additional help	AFO	£2000
Maths intervention KS4 - tutoring	Ensured desired level of understanding in particular topics	Analysis of progress shows some students need additional help	HBA	£2000
Music mentoring	Ensure understanding for year 11 students	Lockdown impacted on practical subjects, students need individual attention	PRO	£300
Psychology / sociology intervention	Strong outcomes in A level results	Ensure capacity in place to drive outcomes	ASE	£8892
Science intervention KS4 - tutoring	Ensured desired level of understanding in particular topics	Analysis of progress shows some students need additional help	HMA	£2000
Total budgeted cost:				£15,192
Other approaches
Action	Intended outcome and success criteria	What’s the evidence and rationale for this choice?	Staff lead	Cost
Additional attendance staffing	High standards of attendance, and limited numbers of persistent absentees.	Enable swift action for all absences so patterns are not allowed to develop.	JSH	£12,480
Counselling support	Ensure support for students who have suffered trauma during lockdown	Remove barriers to attendance and ensure all students are able to engage in learning	DCA	£2000
Hardship fund	Support for individual students	Significantly worse financial circumstances for many families	ASE	£1000
Additional office staffing	Support additional queries and needs from the office.	A higher demand for first aid, absence, general questions and queries	NC	£3744
Total budgeted cost:				£19224

Planned expenditure for current academic year - 16-19 Tuition Funding

Additional funding has come from the ESFA (details here) for students (aged 16-19) who will benefit from small group tuition in English, Mathematics and other courses where learning has been disrupted. The funding is for those students who did not achieve Grade 5 in English or Mathematics and are currently with us in Sixth Form. The priority should be those who did not gain a Grade 4 in either English or Mathematics.

The money provided is for the school to use to go above and beyond this typical provision so we have used the £906 to provide the following:

HBL In line with funding intention and supports students

£406

Action	Intended outcome and success criteria	What’s the evidence and rationale for this choice?	Staff lead	Cost
Individual tuition in Mathematics	Retake GCSE Mathematics and achieve a Grade 4	In line with funding intention and supports students in achieving most important core academic outcome	HBL	£500
Individual tuition in lowest performing A Levels	Achieve target grade in all A Level subjects	In line with funding intention and supports students in achieving success in their current courses	RPE/SWA	£406
Total budgeted cost:				£906

Additional Information

In this section we refer to additional information which we've used to support the sections above. For example:

Evidence is available from the EEF families of schools database here.
Results of parent, staff and students consultation - we have undertaken two surveys of parents, staff and students and have used these to adjust our provision. The outcomes have been shared with stake holders in our newsletters here.
Recent school Ofsted report - our most recent OfSTED report is available here.