A very warm welcome to Chingford Foundation School, which is part of the Chingford Academies Trust with our partner school –Rushcroft Foundation School. Chingford Foundation School recently received the accolade of appearing in England’s top 100 schools for sustained improvement in its academic outcomes. This places the school in the top 3% of non-selective, state-funded schools. We are also pleased to host a Sixth Form Centre which was rated as ‘outstanding’ by OFSTED.
Our school seeks to challenge and extend students of all abilities and backgrounds and will provide them with the secure learning foundations to lead happy and successful lives while also enabling them to make positive contributions to the communities in which they live.
The curriculum offer at Chingford Foundation School is broad and provides every student with the opportunity to pursue their special interests and aptitudes, whilst maintaining a creative and balanced experience of all areas of education. It challenges all abilities and makes good use of every available resource, both in and out of teaching areas to fire imagination, creativity and bring education to life. Target setting, tracking, monitoring, and evaluation of achievement are used in all areas of the curriculum to ensure the progress of all students. The formal curriculum is enhanced by a range of extra-curricular opportunities (the extension Programme), Saturday College, and offsite activities locally and abroad. Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education (SMSC) is embedded in the taught curriculum and also delivered through the pastoral program and in bespoke "Drop Day" sessions where outside presenters and specialists are utilized.
To ensure maximum progress, for teaching purposes, the pupils in Lower School are grouped in the following ways:
- They are taught in small mixed ability groups for Design Technology, Food Technology, Drama and Art.
- Students are in sets for Mathematics, Science, PE, and Year 8 Languages.
- Oher subjects are taught in mixed ability groups.
- A small number of students are taught as a class group with fewer different teachers. The composition of this group is determined by the SENCO.
