Working with families
We believe that a strong partnership between home and school is an important way to support children’s learning. As part of our work, we liaise closely with families in the following ways:
- Home school agreement
- Twice yearly reports
- Termly consultation meetings
- Start of new year group family information meetings
- Several family events throughout the year
- Newsletters from classes and the headteacher
- Homework that informs families of work/ skills covered in school for all subjects- homework can often be completed between siblings on the same theme to support families
- Parent questionnaires- annual
- Informal and formal meetings with families upon request
- Parent Friend and Teacher Association (PFTA)
- Parent Governors
- Use of ‘Parent Working Parties’ – for specific areas requiring more focussed liaison such as Homework and Sex and Relationship Education
Parent Working Party
As a result of feedback from families on our annual questionnaires, working parties are set up to support different development areas such as: homework; feedback to parents; development of a Sex and Relationship Education policy and home reading. Requests for parents willing to be part of these working parties are shared in newsletters.
...couldn't be more thrilled with the education my children are receiving at Blackwell... (Parent comment)