year 7 catch up funding

Spending your Catch Up Premium

The government’s guidelines on Catch-Up Funding (also known as catch up premium) suggest that you could spend it on 

• Individual tuition
• Intensive small-group tuition
• External services and materials

Identifying pupils that need extra support can be a difficult task, and then providing a solution tailored to each individual pupil can be even more daunting. 

Read&Write literacy software allows you to achieve each of the recommendations above and for every pupil who needs it. 

You can find out more about how best to spend catch up premium by watching our webinars with literacy experts Jane Eyre from Open Eyre Consultancy and Christine Cork from Target Literacy .

Read&Write is packed with features to improve pupils' reading comprehension. This image shows how text can be highlighted and then read back to the student to help them understand it. 

Let's start with your pupils' literacy needs

Investing your catch up premium on Read&Write can allow you to clearly define your pupils' progress. Our literacy software is proven to improve the literacy scores of Year 7s. Not only that, students can use these tools throughout their school years and onwards into further and higher education, as well as the workplace. 

With interactive features that are perfect for modern classrooms, Read&Write caters for many different learning styles, from the shy kids who are afraid to ask questions in class, to dyslexic students who struggle with traditional teaching methods. 

A subscription means you can use it on any laptop or tablet.

Teachers can give feedback online, interact with pupils at any time and from anywhere, as well as monitor progress and demonstrate improvements. 

Allowing students to use tools like Read&Write not only helps those pupils who are struggling, but encourages independent learning across the school and gives all of your pupils the tools to make them career-ready.

Helping time-pressed teachers

When your students are developing, your job is easier and more fulfilling whether you’re a Literacy Coordinator, Headteacher, English Teacher or anyone else charged with finding out how to use Catch-up Funding.

With so much else involved in your job, you may not have time to research how to get funding and where to invest it. Or perhaps you see a colleague struggling to find funding to support pupils with literacy and numeracy. 

Getting the funding is one thing. Justifying how you spend it can be a time consuming process. You need clear results, laid out in an easily managed format. In short, you want to save time, have a lasting impact on pupils’ literacy and secure future funding through wise investments. 

Having proof of impact from measurable stats within your literacy software can help your school to breeze through OFSTED inspections by demonstrating value for money. 

Providing your school with the right learning and teaching resources means enhanced reputation to potential members of staff as well as pupils and their parents.