COVID-19 Catch Up Funding

How the grant will be spent

To help disadvantaged students whose education has been most affected by school closure
To support all students in Year 11 to partake in Additional Study programmes during holidays and on Saturday mornings
To procure additional IT devices and software to enable both students who have not got access to a device at home to access their lessons and Google Classroom and teachers to teach remotely
To buy in external tutors as part of the National Tutoring programme offer to support students who have fallen behind most as a result of school closure

How the effects of this expenditure will be assessed

Analysis of termly grade card reports/data drops
Monitoring of different groups of students (e.g. disadvantaged vs. non disadvantaged)
Student questionnaires and general feedback
Staff questionnaires and general feedback
Impact reports produced by external tuition companies
External examination results 2021 (should these take place)