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On our blog you can read latest news about Catch Up®, training and events, as well as useful articles about helping struggling learners with literacy and numeracy.

14th March 2025 - Drop-in support sessions for Catch Up trained staff

Summer term drop-in support session dates have now been sent to trained Catch Up® staff inviting them to join the informal sessions (being held via Microsoft Teams) which will give them the opportunity to ask any questions they may have, and to chat through anything they would like to clarify or share.

The drop-in support sessions will be taking place on the following dates and times:

  • Catch Up® Literacy – Tuesday 6th May – 2pm – 3pm

  • Catch Up® Numeracy – Wednesday 7th May – 2pm – 3pm


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10th March 2025 - 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.


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3rd March 2025 - 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.


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25th February 2025 - Summer Term training dates available

Dates for our Summer Term online training courses have now been released to our website.

For more details, please visit the 'Find training' page on our website.


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29th January 2025 - Review and Refresh – Spring Term online sessions

Spring Term dates are now available for our live online Review and Refresh sessions, for Catch Up® Literacy and Catch Up® Numeracy.

Designed for those who attended Catch Up® training over six months ago and who now have experience of delivering the intervention, the Review and Refresh online session offers you a great opportunity to share how your practice is going, and to get further guidance and advice from a Catch Up® Accredited Trainer (and other trainees!).


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