Pupil & Service Premium
At Dr Challoner’s Grammar School we aim to use this funding to narrow the disadvantage gap by addressing inequalities and raising the attainment of those pupils in low-income families. Please click here to view the school's strategy statement for doing so. The Student Development Office offers a range of services including those that provide support for students with relatively low prior attainment to help ‘close the gap’. It also provides specific staff time to help monitor progress and attainment, to help ensure students have every opportunity to access the wider school curriculum and to support transition planning as the students consider GCSE, A Level and careers options.
In addition to this general support, we develop, for those pupils who attract the premium, an individual funding support package tailored to their needs.
This plan is developed with the active involvement of parents who are asked annually to help the school identify any specific needs that this funding could help directly support so as to make the biggest impact for their son in one of the following areas:
- have full access to our curriculum
- access our extra-curricular provision
- improve their levels of attainment and progress
This funding has been used in the provision of essential school equipment, to provide one-on-one revision sessions and music tuition, and to enable pupils to attend enriching educational visits. The fund has been set up so that it is possible that all the funding is spent directly on individual plans. The funding of the Students Development Office staffing time supporting Pupil Premium activities can be financed by the school's general reserves in the event that the Pupil Premium Grant is fully spent on individual plans. This provides us with the most flexibility to meet the needs of our most disadvantaged students.
In order to request any current/remaining funding, please use this Google Form Requests should not be sent to individual members of staff or the Careers and Educational Visits Team. Students eligible for funding continue to be entitled to use a guidance amount of £200 to assist with the ongoing cost of school uniform. Please be reassured that any requests will be handled in the strictest confidence.
Finally, if you believe you meet the Free School Meals criteria and are not currently registered, please complete an application form by clicking here and return for the attention of the Finance Office. There have been some changes to criteria from September 2026 with the transitional protection ending on 31 August 2026. Details of the criteria can be found on the form and if you have any queries, please contact the Finance team: finance@challoners.org.