Intent: to focus on loss of learning in years 7-11 caused by the period of COVID 19 lock down.
Implementation: To provide targeted students with additional academic support to catch up where learning has been missed.
DWHS Catch up curriculum by Subject, please find the link here
DWHS ‘catch-up’ programmes and spending update
Programmmes/Interventions
DWHS Catch up spending plan, click here
Online tutoring
YEAR 7 STUDENTS ON THE BRILLIANT CLUB (NTP FINANCE ASSISTED) FIFTEEN WEEK PROGRAMME
The programme is now fully online, and students will complete tutoring online from home. 100% of students have completed the Pre assessment tasks and logged into the Brilliant club VLE before their first sessions.
YEAR 11 STUDENTS ON THE 1 TO 1 'MY TUTOR' ONLINE PROGRAMME FOR 10 WEEKS
Students are from across the ability range and have been matched with a tutor for specific sections of the specifications they are studying. 100% of students have participated in the first round of sessions so far.
YEAR 11 STUDENTS ON THE 'MYTUTOR' SPREAD ACROSS ENG (45) SCI (15) (NTP FINANCE ASSISTED) FIFTEEN WEEK 3 TO 1 PRORAMME
Students are from across the ability range and have been matched with a tutor for specific sections of the specifications they are studying. The students have been split into groups of three for each tutoring session based on the section of the specification that has been identified as an area to improve or their prior attainment.
DWHS catch up intervention groups in school
Intervention groups:
Intervention groups in year 7- 9 (English, Science, Languages, History, Geography, Year 8 pastoral group (literacy), Year 9 Pastoral(GCSE POD) for one hundred and fifty students.
All students on the catch-up classes have had parental contact and their attendance to sessions is monitored. Students have completed the literacy catch-up element of the year 8 programme and these students have now mostly been selected to participate in the geography, science and languages catch up sessions. Three students on the year 7 literacy programme have made sufficient progress to leave and make space for further students.
Pre-Learning:
Curriculum areas are at various stages of embedding Pre-learning into their curriculums. Department areas are developing pre learning resources to help create more space and time in lessons to complete the content that may have been missed during ‘lock down’ one. Departments have created and tested a range of resources from knowledge organisers in science to ‘pre learning PPTs in history and geography. Departments have made use of the online ‘quizzing’ function in MS Office to provide students with a low threat but high challenge way of self-assessment and also to monitor how well he pre-learning sources are being used. Across four main departments over two thousand five hundred assessments have been completed and re-completed.
Future plans:
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Monitor the quality of the tutoring session with Mytutor and the Brilliant club with the ENG/Math/SCI CL
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Complete Student voice with student participating on the programmes
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Spring term online tuition, based on the student feedback, impact reports and review of the sessions to book the next round of tuition.
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Review the programme with the programme link officers from the Brilliant club and MyTutor