Covid Catch Up Funding

 At the heart of our plan to spend the DFE allocated funding is the principle:

The curriculum remains broad and ambitious- All students continue to be taught a wide range of subjects, maintaining their choices for further study and employment.

With this in mind, we have targeted a wide range of curricula areas, based on assessment of need, and utilised a range of approaches.

A key area for FBEC is English/literacy. On entry, our students have weaker literacy, and in particular reading, skills which can affect their ability to successfully access the curriculum. During school closures, this has been exacerbated. In order to close the gaps and make up for lost learning we have employed two English HLTA’s – one in KS3 and one in KS4. They will drive programmes of study and lead intervention with students across all ability and age ranges. In addition, we have employed two experienced teachers to work in the English department one day per week to increase capacity to deliver highly targeted small group intervention.

These strategies are not unique to English; we have similar programmes running in Maths and Science. Science will have the added capacity of an Academic mentor who will start working with us from January 2021, providing full time support and intervention programmes. We are also hoping to be allocated an Academic mentor in Humanities, specifically Geography in the new year too.

We are also extending our holiday programmes to cover all subjects during all holidays in 2021 and period 6 booster sessions every night of the week, providing our students with high quality teachers (FBEC staff) and most importantly high quality refreshments - Dominos!

DFE Catch-up Funding (£58K allocation)