In 2020-21 the government announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up lost time after school closure. This is especially important for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds. This funding included:
In February 2021, the government announced a one-off recovery premium as part of its package of funding to support education recovery.
The recovery premium provided additional funding for state-funded schools in the 2021 to 2022 academic year. Building on the pupil premium, this funding was used to help schools deliver evidence-based approaches for supporting disadvantaged pupils.
School allocations will be calculated on a per pupil basis.
Mainstream schools will get:
This gave us an amount of around £4000 to carry out catch up work with our children this academic year. Our focuses are on ensuring we deliver high quality reading catch up in KS1 this autumn and also work with selected KS2 children on improving their reasoning skills in maths.
Schools should use this funding for specific activities to support their pupils to recover lost learning, in line with the curriculum expectations for the next academic year in actions for schools during the coronavirus outbreak.
While schools can use their funding in a way that suits their cohort and circumstances, they are expected to use this funding for specific activities which will help pupils catch up on missed education.
Below is our Dalestorth Catch Up and Recovery Premium Funding Plan which details how we are spending our allocated money to ensure as many of our children as possible get the opportunity to recover lost learning time.