So, the big summer school catch up we were promised - what’s happening with that then?

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It’s completely disappeared out of the news as far as I can see.

No extra support for all those missed months?

The tutoring programme is a mess for a start. They should have given the money direct to schools, but why do that when it can be privatised?

As a teacher I was asked to sign up, no signal of pay or dates or structure so didn't! A colleague who did apply hasnt heard back yet although i have been asked for their reference..

Good, they need the summer off. Teaching here continued throughout lockdown so I don’t want mine having extra as others didn’t do the work.

I think it's gone quiet as it's untenable.

The catch up funding for this academic year amounted to two hours of extra teaching time per week for a year group of 60 in my primary school. Of course, whilst in an intervention (if they were one of the few to get picked for one) they were missing out on class teaching time...

It would cost far too much to pay school staff to continue during the summer holidays.

And I think that most school staff would probably refuse.

I'm a teacher and there has been no mention of this in my school. I have to say I teach in Wales though which of course is a different country and different system!
When the UK government get up front and centre and trumpet this they do of course just mean for England.
As already mentioned, the money given directly to schools amounts to an hour or two of extra teaching per child. For the big summer tuition programme, more information can be found here:

nationaltutoring.org.uk

If you read this page:

nationaltutoring.org.uk/resources/guide-to-approved-tuition-partners-2020-21

it details how the money has been handed over to 33 private providers who will facilitate this over the summer holiday. If you follow the links to the various providers then look at their job adverts you will see that they are busy trying to recruit staff, undergraduates for example to teach over the summer. Common sense suggested to me that this money was to be used by schools to fund an education over the summer. The reality however seems to be that the money has been handed to mainly private sector businesses who will provide "tuition" using whoever they can get, whether a teacher or not.
Come to your own conclusions.

People fall for this spin every time. The DfE is still dicking about with LFTs and computers.

(Primary)
We found after-school session impossible due to staggered timings with bubbles, rural school so siblings then became a problem.

So we're having to run it during the day. The group in my class are missing English for their catch-up sessions. It's the only time we could run it - being rural and small we also have the issue of space...

It was so poorly thought-out by Gavlar and the DfE. They'd have been better off putting the money into some child mental health organisations. It's an arbitrary set of academic standards to catch up to anyway.

I'm going to link to ictmrp's instagram here - he says it much better than I could: www.instagram.com/tv/CNXrhDgHXBG/