Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA)

Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA) – What is it?

The Chalfonts Community College is proud of its working relationships with parents and carers, and we have high aspirations for our students. However, as a school we are always keen to develop many more aspects of our home-school partnership.

Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA)

This award helps schools to work in partnership with all parents and carers. Increasing parental participation in school life leads to improved pupil progress, punctuality, attendance and behaviour. The framework encourages parents to be involved in their children's learning, leading to improved outcomes in all aspects of school life.

Over the next 9 months, we shall be working towards achieving a national award called the ‘Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA)’, to strengthen our partnerships with parents/carers, improving communication and enhancing parental involvement. During this process we will focus on key areas such as improved pupil progress, punctuality, attendance and behaviour.

This award looks at how well we work with parents and carers; how welcoming the school is; and how we support parents/carers in helping their children to learn.

We aim to improve communication with parents/carers and the community; support families and children to extend their learning and encourage greater input and more involvement of parents/carers in school life.

Research suggests that the benefits for children are:

It is easier for a child to learn when they get encouragement at home.
They will do better and achieve more when their parents or carers are involved.
Their concerns can be sorted out more quickly when parents and carers have a positive relationship with school staff.

Being more involved shows children that their parents/carers are interested in what the school is doing, allows them to see that their learning is valued, gives them a sense of security, and helps them to learn about good citizenship, from examples set by parents/carers.

The benefits for parents or carers are:

Children do better when parents/carers are involved.
Parents can build their own confidence and skills.
Parents/carers get to know the teachers and other parents.
Parents/carers also gain a better understanding of how the school works.

How can our families help us gain the award?

Research has identified that, at age 7, a parent’s influence on a child’s learning is six times that of their school and even at 11 years old, it is 29% greater. Increased involvement can raise achievement by at least 18%, whereas no involvement usually leads to low or no qualifications at 16.

Parents/Carers can become more involved in their child's education and help us achieve the award by:

Reading all the information that we send out.
Coming along to events organised by the school.
Completing any questionnaires we send out as honestly as you can.
Showing willingness to participate in providing suggestions/ideas to the working party.

The Chalfonts Community College will be judged against a number of objectives and have to provide evidence to demonstrate that we are working towards achieving these. We plan to post updates on our website to share a snapshot of the type of strategies and improvements that have been put in place in response to feedback from students, parents/carers and the community.

With the continued support of our parents/carers we hope to achieve this award.

More information about the award can be found at: https://www.awardplace.co.uk/.