16-19 Tuition Fund

16 to 19 Tuition Fund

Many students have been negatively affected regarding their progress since the lockdown instigated by the Government in March to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The academy put effective measures in place to ensure that students continued to be taught online and it was open to all vulnerable students during the lockdown period however this year’s intake of year 12 may not have had the advantages of this from their previous school and significant numbers are from disadvantaged backgrounds. Year 13 have also experienced disruption to their learning despite best efforts made by the academy. Disadvantaged groups are the most affected by the impact of lockdown. The 16 to 19 tuition fund is a £96 million one -off funding for the academic year 2020/2021 ring fenced for providers to mitigate the disruption to learning arising from COVID-19. The monies awarded to the academy will be utilised to enable our vulnerable students to rapidly return to a level where they can be successful in their level 1,2 and 3 qualifications. This academic year the 16 – 19 allocation is £48,311.00.

Expenditure for the 16 to 19 tuition fund 2023-24

The Principal holds the budget for the tuition fund 2023-24 and authorises all expenditure. Funding is currently targeted at three aspects of student development; teaching and learning, attendance and behaviour.

The key barriers for learning of HPS6F students revolve around three key issues:

1. Extremely Low levels of Literacy in the level 2 and level 3 pathway
2. Confidence in ability
3. Gaps in learning from academic years 2019/2020, 2020/21 and 2021/22 2022/23 academic years.

• Therefore, our priorities for expenditure of the funding program will be:
• Increase of Literacy resources and delivery
• Provision of 1:1 tuition for students via staff subject expertise of graduate TAs

Increased Provision of holiday school for sixth form students incorporating small group work

Action	Rationale	Costs	Success Indicator
Appoint part time intervention tutors for Core and option subjects to work in Spring Term with students to ensure greater access to lessons, run more effective intervention sessions and small group intervention work including 1:1 sessions.   One tutor assigned each to: English/ English Lit Maths Science	Small group and 1:1 work with targeted students whose gaps in attainment have been recognised will allow them to become more confident with dealing with subject content and understanding.	£15,633.00	Increase in success rate at level 1, 2 and level 3 subjects. Increase of student confidence in the subjects they are taking will lead to greater confidence and improved attitude towards learning of students.
Increased teaching Resources for Literacy Intervention classes and delivery of whole school initiative. 98 students identified from NGRT baseline assessments who require some form of intervention Literacy tutor to support the Literacy coordinator in delivering high quality Literacy support	Additional Literacy/Numeracy classes and resources for targeted students timetabled during intervention sessions. Focus in Aut 1 and 2 on Literacy CPD for all subjects and discrete Literacy sessions scheduled during tutor time once a week on Literacy development.	£25,00.00	Literacy levels increased for students enabling access to all subjects which in turn will lead to higher outcomes achieved in all subjects taken by end of academic year 2022/2023. Evidenced through NGRT assessments in Spring 2
Additional support during holiday half term and full-term breaks given to students for additional revision classes and coursework support	To enable additional time to be given to students with targeted gap analysis and extra sessions provided to ensure success in their chosen pathway.	£7,678.00	Students to meet targets set from baseline data.