Our Sixth Form

The 16-19 tuition fund is funding that is ring-fenced for Sixth Form institutions to support students and mitigate disruption to learning arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. All Sixth Form learners will also have 40 additional hours in their learning aims across the year to support them to help ensure gaps in learning caused by disruption to education are bridged. This aimed at uplifting hours to bring us closer to high performing international comparator countries.

The funding is being used to provide small group tuition for 16-19-year olds where their learning has been disrupted and they:

• have not achieved a Grade 6 in GCSE English and/or GCSE Mathematics at age 16, and would need catch-up support;

• are from the 27% most economically deprived areas of the country (based on the index of multiple deprivation), and would need catch-up support;

• are economically disadvantaged, and, therefore, meet the 16 - 19 Bursary Fund eligibility criteria, and would need catch-up support to reach their full potential (even where their prior attainment is high).
  
  

Although targeted students are identified based on their prior attainment in English and Mathematics, the funding can be used to support students in their learning across a variety of subjects.

Examples of disruption that these students have faced/will face include assessments being deferred due to lockdown or self-isolation, falling behind in their learning due to long/multiple periods of self-isolation, and not being able to complete external examinations due to positive COVID-19 cases.

How will Chase High School Sixth Form use the funding?

At Chase High School Sixth Form, we intend to utilise the funding to provide additional support to small groups of students (between three and five, seven in exceptional circumstances), who have not yet achieved a Grade 6 in English or Mathematics. Within this cohort, targeted student intervention will be focused as follows:

• Students, who have yet to achieve a Grade 4 or 5 in English and/or Mathematics;
• Students, who are currently in Year 13 as a priority, and then Year 12, if funding allows.

We intend to use the fund by running additional small group classes for these students during the school day and as twilight sessions, or by offering tuition from specific subject specialists that may be hired to provide support.