Ernesettle Community School in Plymouth has reported huge improvements in pupils’ progress as a result of the National Tutoring Programme.
The Government funded programme, worth £1.1billion, will see six million packages of support delivered to pupils in England to help them catch up on lost learning. This is part of the Government’s wider, ambitious education recovery programme, worth nearly £5 billion.
The last two years have had a huge impact on children and young people with many having their education disrupted. To help combat this the government has committed to an ambitious education recovery plan to help pupils catch-up on lost learning due to the pandemic. Ernesettle Community School is one such school that has been supported by the scheme and is already seeing results with its students.
Ernesettle Community School has seen excellent results already from their younger pupils taking part in the Catch-up Tuition programme, with almost one fifth of students getting support from the system with 102 children out of 566 pupils being supported in some way by this scheme.
Emma Lenszner, senior assistant headteacher at Ernesettle Community School, said:
“Our tutors have been really friendly members of the team and they’ve supported children across different aspects such as communication and language, or mental health and wellbeing, which has been really positive for our school.”
Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi MP said:
“We’ve seen how transformative tutoring is for young people and it’s fantastic to see schools like Ernesettle Community School engaging with the programme. We continue to build on the successes of last term, where 300,000 courses of tuition were delivered, to ensure this unprecedented support helps young people across the country catch up on lost learning.”
Catch-up tuition is intended to provide additional, targeted support for those children and young people in schools who have been most affected by disruption to their education, as a result of the pandemic. It is available at primary and secondary schools, as well as special educational needs or disability (SEND) specialist schools and for SEND pupils within mainstream school systems.
Primary school aged students can access catch-up tuition in literacy, numeracy and science, while secondary school aged students can access catch-up tuition in English, humanities, maths, modern foreign languages, and science.
Visit educationcatchup.campaign.gov.uk for full details on catch-up tuition and other resources to support your child’s physical and mental wellbeing.
