Parent Survey

We send out a parents survey at least once a year.

Parents’ suggestions are always gratefully received and are considered as we set our school development priorities. The result of our latest parents survey are below, thank you very much to parents and carers for completing the questionnaire and for all your comments and responses.

It is always lovely to hear positive feedback (the results of the survey were overwhelmingly positive) but we have looked at all of the comments so that we can work together with you to make our school an even better place to be.

Here is an overall summary:

My child is happy at school – 94% compared to 90% last year
My child feels safe at school – 96% compared to 90% last year
The school makes sure it’s children are well behaved – 72% compared to 65% last year
When I have raised concerns with the school they have been dealt with – 79% compared to 76% last year
The school lets me know how my child is doing – 85% compared to 70% last year
There is a good range of subjects available to my child – 96% compared to 71% last year
The school supports my child’s wider personal development – unchanged from last year at 71%
My child can take part in clubs and activities at this school – 91% compared to 90% last year
My child has been bullied and the school dealt with the bullying quickly and effectively – 36% but a further 52% said that their child has not been bullied. This compares to 36% and 47% last year.
My child has SEND and they are supported – this is 72% verses 79% last year but remains well above the national average of 61%.
All respondents said that their child’s overall experience of school was OK 🙂
88% of parents would recommend the school to another parents – up on 80% last year and in line with the national average

We have worked hard over the past year to continue to improve our school. You told us last year that getting updates on your child’s progress is important and you would like more.

We now have at least one opportunity per term for parents to come in and see their child’s teacher, with a parents evening in the Autumn and Summer term and open evening in spring term. In addition, we make sure that we have lots of other opportunities for parents to come in including art galleries, celebration events, assemblies etc and at different times of the day as we know that coming into school during working hours can be tricky.

We also send assessment letters 3x per year for years 3-5 and a reports for everyone in the Spring term.

If you ever have a specific query or want to ask how your child is getting on you can email their class teacher or catch them at the end of the day.

We have also looked at not only having ambition and stretch in our curriculum (particularly in English and Maths) but also supporting children’s wellbeing. Let us know if there are other things that we can do to support your child’s wider personal development as this is an area we would like more feedback on.

Our parents with SEN children have said that they are supported but overall this figure was down on last year and again we would value some insight as to how we can help more – just let us know. We will continue to work with the parents of SEN children to understand how we can continue to support SEN children within our setting.

Finally, out of schools clubs continue to go from strength to strength but we are always looking for new clubs to add to our program – watch this space!