Parental Support and Working Together

As a Federation of schools, we are committed to providing parents with regular updates on your child’s progress.  We do this in a number of ways:

Parent Evenings

These provide you with an opportunity to chat to the class teacher about your child. Each term has a slightly different focus.

• Autumn Term. . Teachers will discuss how your child is settling into school, your child’s strengths and areas for development and how you can support your child at home.

• Spring Term. This parents’ evening is for you to discuss the progress your child is making and to look at samples of work.

• Summer Term. There will be an opportunity to discuss your child’s annual report, if you feel this is necessary 

Parents' Open Sessions/Assemblies

• These are held throughout the year and provide an opportunity to celebrate your child’s achievements. 

Home School Reading Diary

• This provides a regular dialogue between home and school with updates on the child’s progress in reading.

Homework

• Children bring home a range of activities, which supplement their learning.  Each individual class is different and you will be sent details by the Class Teachers. 

• The Federation’s aims in setting homework are to support and extend pupil’s learning by practising and consolidating skills and knowledge, encouraging independent working and developing  a partnership between home and school. Homework will come in a range of formats, for example, practice of key words, phonics, spelling, reading, maths, topic related work. 

• Homework is linked closely to the learning happening in school. It usually takes the form of project based learning around the children’s interests and encompasses the areas of learning and skills.

• As parents, we value the part you play in the development of your child’s literacy skills in the home and in the environment to underpin the children’s understanding of purposes for reading. Working in partnership with the school, you as parents can make a real difference to your child’s development, confidence and self-esteem as a reader. 

• In Foundation Phase children bring home their reading book bags regularly and we encourage parents to read at home with their child and to work in partnership with the school in supporting the children as they learn to read 

• In Key Stage 2 every piece of homework set will have been carefully selected to enhance the pupil's educational experience whilst developing their individual understanding and learning. 

Individual Appointments

• If you feel you would like to discuss your child’s progress in more detail your child’s class teacher will be happy to arrange a mutually convenient time when you can do this. Please contact the class teacher to arrange this.