Clee Hill Community Academy

At Clee Hill Community Academy, we believe that it is essential to develop strong partnerships with home if our children are to achieve their full potential. Parents and schools working as partners can only increase pupil achievement and help to develop positive attitudes about self and school.

We aim to:

• Be a welcoming and friendly school for parents/carers and visitors.
• Establish a mutually supportive and respectful relationship with all of our parents where trust and clear communication is at the heart of all we do.
• Keep parents informed and involved in a positive way, through working in partnership together in order to help every pupil achieve their full potential socially, emotionally and academically.
• Respond swiftly and efficiently to the needs of parent callers and visitors.
• Provide timely and relevant information for parents through the use of our text messaging service, school website, the email distribution of letters and newsletters.
• ·Bring pupils’ learning to life for parents via Class Dojo

The school would like an effective partnership with parents by valuing your help in the following ways:

• Coming to school on time both at the beginning and end of the day
• Getting to know your child’s teacher so that you can share in their achievements and concerns
• Making an appointment if you need to talk at length about your child
• Attending all Parents Meetings/Curriculum workshops
• Reading at home daily with your child and taking an interest in homework
• Reading all letters that your child brings home/ reading letters on Class Dojo
• Keeping us informed of any changes to circumstances which may affect your child in school

Our experience and research show that an effective partnership with parents is reflected in a more successful performance by children at school. We do make mistakes and there are misunderstandings but these can be reduced to a minimum if we keep in close contact and work together to put things right.

Arbor
To enable Parent/Carers to keep all their personal information up to date that has been registered with the school (eg Address, contact phone numbers, etc) please ensure that your Arbor account is kept up to date.

Keeping You Informed
We make every effort to ensure that parents are well informed about their child’s progress and the work of the school.

Each year parents can expect:

• A termly update about your child’s curriculum topics on the school website (class pages)
• Two parents’ evenings (individual meetings with your child’s teacher) in the Autumn and Spring terms to discuss progress and any areas of concern. Appointments can also be arranged at the end of the Summer Term to discuss End of year Reports.
• Termly Progress Check Reports – sent via arbor including information about pupil’s performance in the Standard Assessment Tasks (SATs), multiplication checks, Phonics Assessments and End of EYFS data.
• A mweekly newsletter (sent via Class Dojo) and a regularly updated website.
• Support for parents information on the website specifically for key areas such as Reading, Maths and Spelling and mental Health.
• Reminders, updates and letters about specific events.
• Celebration Events such as special assemblies, Harvest and Christmas Plays, Sports day, music concerts etc.
• Information about their child’s learning experiences via Class Dojo.

Meeting Staff
If you have any questions or concerns, please remember that staff are only too happy to talk with you.  Quick messages can be passed onto a member of staff at the designated school door before or after school, via the school office or on Class Dojo.

If the issue might take some time to solve, we would ask that you ring the school office to make an appointment with either the class teacher, or Mrs Little.

Parents needing to meet with staff are politely requested to report to the main office via the front entrance.

Helping your child
Home and school are the two most powerful influences on children and only by working together can we ensure children get the best education.

Do please help us by:

• Talking to your child about schoolwork. Show your children that you are interested and want them to do well.
• Seeing that your child comes to school alert, in good time and having had sufficient sleep and breakfast.
• Making sure your child comes to school dressed in correct uniform, without jewellery and wearing suitable footwear.
• Encouraging your child to read at home at least five times a week and signing the reading diaries.
• Trying to provide your child with a quiet atmosphere to complete any homework to a high standard.
• Teaching your child to respect the school and its staff, and to support the school’s Behaviour Policy.
• Ensuring your child does not bring any toys, sweets, money or chewing gum into school.
• Helping your child to be responsible. E.g. By having the correct equipment ready at the start of every lesson, taking care not to lose uniform, handing in mobile phones to the office.
• Helping your child to be independent. E.g. carrying their own book bag, handing in homework on time.

The Headteacher and Staff are always available to give advice, provide reassurance or suggest ways in which you can help your child at home. If you have any worries about progress please don’t hesitate to ask…

Parent & Carer Volunteers

At Clee Hill Community Academy, we really appreciate the involvement of parents and other volunteers in school. Whether you can offer half an hour a week or a whole morning or afternoon, you are always very welcome to come into school and become involved with various learning activities.  As with work placement students, everyone working with children is subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

Parents are also warmly welcomed into school through formal invitations to special assemblies, sports days, parent’s evenings and so on.

Share & Listen

As part of our ongoing commitment to further improving communication within school, if you have any comments/suggestions re: the development of the school, we would invite parents to put forward their views constructively via email to the headteacher at:
 ceri.little@chcacademy.co.uk