Catch Up® offers training and support to deliver our two proven interventions
Catch Up Literacy Catch Up Numeracy

Catch Up® is a not-for-profit charity working to address literacy and numeracy difficulties that contribute to underachievement. We offer two structured one-to-one interventions, Catch Up® Literacy and Catch Up® Numeracy, proven to significantly improve the achievement of learners who find literacy or numeracy difficult.

Latest news

10 Mar - TALKING ABOUT CATCH UP

There’s a lot of talk about talk at the moment in education, whether it’s in the Oracy Education Commission’s study: We Need to Talk about Talk (October 2024) or PlanBee’s report: The Power of Oracy in the Primary Classroom (November, 2024) or the EEF’s Blog: What does the evidence tell us about effective oral language practice (November 2024). These reports identify three interrelated, overlapping and mutually reinforcing components of oracy:

  • Learning to talk

  • Learning through talk

  • Learning about talk

The research shows that raising the profile of oracy in schools is a highly effective tool for closing the attainment gap and that pupils from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds - who are more likely to display less developed early language and speech skills than their more advantaged peers - greatly benefit from targeted interventions.

But the Catch Up® interventions are not oral language interventions, I hear you say. That’s true, but the Catch Up sessions do provide ideal opportunities to use talk to foster and deepen learning.

03 Mar - Catch Up® Training Around the World!

Did you know that our Catch Up® Literacy and Catch Up® Numeracy online training courses can be accessed around the world? Our convenient format of three 2-hour sessions delivered online have enabled trainees from the UK and 35 other countries to receive the Catch Up® training!

We have been so pleased to welcome 491 trainees from schools and other settings outside of the UK and help them to support their struggling learners.