Parents Association

Parents have automatic membership to our Parents' Association. The Association's main purpose is to support the education of all our pupils and this is primarily achieved by the fundraising and social activities that take place throughout the academic year. Your involvement, however big or small, is crucial to the ongoing success of our Parents' Association.

Form Tutors

Your child's learning is our most important goal and success will depend on the three-way partnership of yourself, your child and the form tutor. Your child's tutor will be available at any time to discuss your child's progress and formally at parent consultation evenings held during the year. Pupils normally remain with their form tutor throughout their time in school. The form tutor is the first point of contact between home and school.

Parental Alert

We are continually looking for quick and effective ways to communicate with home. Parental Alert is a piece of software that can be downloaded from the school website by anyone who has Internet access and allows regular messages from school to be displayed on your home or work computer. Click here for download and installation instructions.

Newsletters

We keep in contact with parents through regular newsletters which are available in paper form and electronically. We know how easy it is for information to go missing from your child's school bag, so newsletters can be sent by e-mail (click here to request this) and are also available on this website on the news page.

Pupil Planners

You can monitor your child's daily progress through the planner. Parents, pupils and the school are invited to sign a home-school agreement in the Pupil Planner which details the responsibilities of all partners in the educative process. This is an important publication where your child will also record their homework, achievements and credits. Messages are also regularly passed between teacher and parents/carers. Please ensure that you look at the planner on a weekly basis and communicate with us by recording your own comments.

Reports

Parents receive assessments of their child's progress three times a year; two interim reports and a more detailed full school report. There is also a parents' evening each year when parents can discuss their child's progress with individual subject teachers, in addition to two academic mentoring days. These meetings give parents the opportunity to monitor and review individual targets set. Dates for these meetings can be found on the school calendar