Category: Year 9

Pupil Premium and Free School Meals

Natalie McGillivary

We know that money is extremely tight for lots of families at the moment and one avenue of support is to apply for ‘Free School Meals’. These are administered by the Local Authority to eligible parents and enable students to receive £2.40 per day for lunch in the school canteen. Please check the criteria to see if you might qualify – if you do, we would urge you to apply as soon as possible by following the instructions on this form.

To read one of the original letters sent home in the summer, which details Pupil Premium eligibility, click here.

GCSE Data

Natalie McGillivary

The government yesterday released some official data on this year’s GCSE performance. There will be more information in our next newsletter, but we promised to let parents and carers know when this information was available and thought you’d appreciate a quick note before half-term.

The measure that is considered to be the most important these days when judging school performance is ‘Progress 8’ – i.e. a measure of the progress made by students across a wide range of subjects during their time at secondary school, taking into account their starting points in terms of how well they had done at the end of Year 6.

Lymm High School has a Progress 8 score for this summer of 0.54. For context, this is the best in Warrington and, moreover, places us in the top ten of all mixed comprehensive schools in the whole of the North West (around 400 secondary schools across 23 local authorities). This is obviously a fantastic performance, especially for a school that also places so much emphasis on extra-curricular activities and personal development.

Well done again to everyone concerned!