Working with Parents

We believe that during the school years parents have a fundamental role to play in helping children to learn. We do all we can to inform parents about what and how their children are learning by:

• Sending information at the start of each term, which outlines the topics that the children will be studying

• Holding parents’ evenings each term

• Sending parents annual reports

• Keeping the website, class blogs and Twitter up to date

• Explaining to parents how they can support their children with homework

• Sending a regular newsletter to parents

• Inviting parents to share class assemblies and whole school events

• Holding workshops to inform and involve parents in specific aspects of their child’s learning

Parents support their child’s learning in school by:

• Promoting a positive attitude towards school and learning

• Ensuring that their child has the best attendance record possible

• Ensuring that their child is equipped for school with the correct uniform and PE kit

• Informing us if there are matters outside of school that are likely to affect a child’s performance or behaviour

• Supporting their child in extending their learning beyond the classroom, e.g. through homework

• Fulfilling the requirements set out in the home-school agreement which is reviewed regularly by the school and sent out to all new families