Catch-up Activities

In addition to our main activities, we have several types of catch-up resources you will be interested in:

Diagnostic Assessments	For Year 6 to Year 7 transition.
Graded Activities	Activities identified as being suitable for grade ranges 1-4, 5 and 6-9.
Exam Essentials	Specifically matched to the AQA GCSE Science Specification: Focus - common exam questions, organised by topic. Intensive - questions that always come up, organised by exam paper.

Here are three models for using SAM Learning for catch-up in School:

1. Review Prior Knowledge - find the gaps in learners' foundations by setting an activity on last year's work.  Use QLA (Question Level Analysis) to plan some catch-up teaching before moving forward.

e.g. Year 7 - Use our Diagnostic Activities to see what gaps there are in learners' knowledge from KS2 / Year 6.

2. Assess Recent Learning - set 2 or 3 review activities at the end of a topic - and use QLA to identify learning gaps to address.

e.g. Key Stage 4 - Either use our Targeted Intervention Activities to set work suitable for Higher (grades 5 to 9) or Foundation (grades 1 to 5)  or set activities from the topic folders to review and refresh knowledge.

3. Live Diagnosis - set an activity in the start of a lesson - then use the QLA immediately to focus in on the weaker areas in your class.

e.g. AQA GCSE Scientists - remember that we also have our Exam Essentials activities, targeted specifically at the syllabus.  (Edexcel Maths and AQA English coming soon!)

Target your Catch-up to Groups

Remember that SAM Learning's Three-wave Intervention allows you to target your catch-up programmes in three ways:

• to your Timetabled Classes (or sub-groups of them)
• to Intervention Groups you have created just for this purpose
• to Individuals with unique needs