In September 2020 the government announced details of funding to support children and young people to catch up following the unprecedented disruption to their education as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19).  This includes a one-off universal £650 million recovery premium for the 2020 to 2021 academic year to ensure that schools have the support they need to help all pupils make up for lost teaching time.

From September 2021 a further Recovery premium was awarded to each school.

Long Marton school have been given:

Autumn term 2020 - £1780

Spring term 2021- £2560

Summer term 2021 - £3099 

Autumn 2021 - £1413 (£413 National tutoring grant and  £1000 Recovery Premium)

Spring term 2022 - £413 (National tutoring grant)

Summer 2022 term - £1293 (£793 National tutoring grant and  £500 Recovery Premium)

All pupils completed baseline assessments at the end of September and were assessed again at the beginning of December to identify:

- further areas for improvement across the school

- which pupils need it the most. 

In the Autumn 2020 term this funding was used to employ two teachers to give extra support to target groups of pupils:

- in Y3, 4 and 5 for spelling, punctuation and grammar

- Y1 pupils to develop their fine motor skills and build up stamina for writing.

- To purchase resources to enhance writing in Y4 and 5.

In the Spring 2021 term this funding was planned to be used to employ two teachers to give extra support to target groups of pupils but school was only partially open for part of the term:

- Y5 for spelling, punctuation and grammar

- Y2 pupils for spelling, punctuation and grammar.

In addition a teacher has been employed every morning to work with a group of Y4 and Y5 pupils for English and Maths. This reduces class sizes across KS 2.

Following the return to school in March 2021, all pupils completed baseline assessments at to identify:

- further areas for improvement across the school

- which pupils need it the most. 

As a result n the Summer 2021 term this funding was being used to employ two teachers to give extra support to target groups of pupils in the afternoon:

- Y5 for social/emotional support and spelling, punctuation and grammar

- Y2 pupils for spelling, punctuation and grammar.

- Y1 pupils gross and fine motor skills experiences to improve writing

In addition a teacher was employed every morning to work with a group of Y4 and Y5 pupils for English and Maths. This reduces class sizes across KS 2.

In September 2021 all staff looked at pupils again and identified pupils whose learning learning behaviours and emotional/mental well-being had been impacted on more negatively by the Covid-19 periods of Remote Learning.

As a result in the Autumn 2021, Spring 2022 and Summer 2023 terms this funding has been used to employ an experienced teacher to give extra support to target groups of pupils for:

- Y6 To develop technical vocabulary; identify, define and use word types and phrases

- Y4/5 To read and write the 200 key high frequency words and to strengthen maths skills where gaps are identified from time out of school in Y2 and 3.

- Y3 To write correctly punctuated sentences for all sentence types Focus: Identify word types; nouns, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions Identify

- Y2 To write a correctly punctuated, simple sentence; copy, dictation, own devising. Also to

       develop pace and stamina for writing and to develop greater depth skills in maths.

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