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Essex Research School update - September 2025

Latest updates from the Essex Research School - including Pupil Premium Guidance, details of upcoming 'Get to know Essex Research School' webinars in November and December and an Early Years webinar in November in partnership with the REACHout Stronger Practice Hub.

Pupil Premium Guidance

Earlier this month, the EEF published their updated Pupil Premium guidance. Here are the key points:

What’s new in the Pupil Premium guidance?

The Pupil Premium remains focused on raising educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils and closing the gap between them and their more affluent peers. The updated guide lays out a clear five-step process for strategy planning and implementation:

    1. Diagnose pupils’ needs — get a strong evidence base of what your disadvantaged pupils need most.
    2. Use reliable research evidence to support your strategy.
    3. Develop your strategy in light of context, realistic capacity, and priorities.
    4. Deliver and monitor your strategy, ensuring implementation is consistent and responsive.
    5. Evaluate and sustain what’s working — and adjust or stop what isn’t. Importantly, it emphasises that strategy-development is ongoing, not a one-off event.

Get to know Essex Research School Webinar

Attend a ‘Welcome to Essex Research School’ briefing to find out more about what we do, why we do it and how to get involved. This event will be repeated across November and December 2025, with 3 dates to choose from.

You can sign up to the FREE Welcome Briefing here.

Early Years FREE Webinar

“Supercharge Parent Partnerships for Early Literacy Success!”

Calling all Early Years Leads, Childminders & Teaching Professionals! Want to boost early literacy right from the start? Join us for an engaging, practical, and insight-packed webinar in partnership with REACHout Stronger Practice Hub.

REACHout - Early Years Stronger Practice Hub East of England

📅 Monday 24 November 2025, 4:00-5:00pm

💡 What’s on the agenda?
✅ Smooth transitions & induction – how to set families up for success
📚 Early literacy boosters – simple, effective strategies to support early literacy skills
👨‍👩‍👧 Engaging parents – educating parents through workshops & events
📲 Tapestry & digital tools – tech to strengthen home-school links

Learn from expert Amelia Hudson (EYFS Teacher) from Essex Research School and Lyons Hall Primary School.

Sign up will become available soon. If interested, please save the date for now.

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