Communications
We communicate with parents via newsletters, Class Dojo, and texts.
View the different types of ways we communicate below.
General information
- Newsletter one each month. Click here to view.
- Text message and Dojo updates
- Parent information sessions
- Open afternoons
- Meet new teacher/year group talks – July each year as part of transition (covers Year group expectations, homework, curriculum).
- Separate letters where required – for example: staffing updates
Key general information available on this school website
- Staffing
- Year group curriculum overviews (what each year group cover each term)
- Key policies (including behaviour policy, SEN)
- Clubs
- Term dates
- School dinner menu
- Breakfast club
- School performance data (reportable)
- Pupil premium and sports premium
- Ofsted report
Information on pupil's progress
- October and February – open afternoon and parents’ evenings.
- July – written end of year report.
- July - parents’ evening for any parents with concerns about their child’s written report.
- SATs (standardised assessment test) results reported for applicable year groups (Year 2 and Year 6)
- Phonics screening check outcome reported for applicable Year group (Year 1).
- Weekly texts are sent to parents for pupils in the class BEST Book and for those pupils who have earned the most BEST points in their class that week.
- Termly BEST certificate assemblies – parents welcome to attend (and parents notified in advance by text if their child is receiving a certificate.
Communication as a two-way process
- Parents can at any point request to meet with their child’s class teacher to discuss your child’s progress or any concerns. Just ask your child’s class teacher to arrange a convenient time to meet, and they will be willing to do so
- Staff are available at the door to leave messages in the morning and to communicate with at the end of the day (once pupils have been sent out to parents).
Information on events
- Key dates are updated and sent out with each newsletter (also still available on the school website in the section ‘letters and newsletters)
- A newsletter every month, which details dates and events for each term. The newsletter goes out at the end of each term. Please click here to view.
- All newsletters are available on this school website.
- Where an e-mail address has been provided, newsletters are e-mailed. If not, a paper copy is given to the pupil.
- Additional text message reminders are also sent for most events. (Please ensure you have provided up-to-date contact details).
- Trips and sporting events/matches – separate letters are sent for these events, as they require parental signatures for participation.