Great communication from school to home

[Bordersmummy]

If your school communicates really well with parents, or at least you have few complaints, please could you give me some tips as to what they do particularly well. Thanks!

Recently received complaints that we communicate too much

mrz can you give us an idea of what you do please? I like a lot of what I hear about your school so would be good to get an idea.

Clearly there's a lot of subjectivity in terms of what is / isn't appropriate etc. I had to - very apologetically - ask for repeat copies of some date newsletters today as I'd lost them all. Entirely my fault and its one of the areas where our school is very good. For me, something electronic would be better but that's my ineptitude at holding on to paper for more than two minutes (I think we have wood lice that eat them in the kitchen ) so I know there's no perfect answer. It's really great to hear about the variety of ways of doing things though.

Half termly news letter, half termly break down of things to be covered in each class, text messages, Twitter, School website

My dd has recently started in reception . We get loads of info but its not linked and not communicated well.

Good points are weekly reception newsletter summarizing what they have done and upcoming dates. Weekly letter from head with clubs, menu and notices. Hard copy term dates at the start of each term.

Not good - constant drip feed of communication. I got 12 y this week.

Phone posted too soon.

What I was trying to was that of the 12 emails. 1 wasn't relevant to reception or year 1 and only 1 was urgent. The others could have waited for the newsletter.

The most recent annoyance is the termly dates had dress down next Wednesday. This week we got a don't forget non uniform on Friday for cin. No mention of next Wednesday. Clearly a mistake but no acknowledgement of their error.

Ours is pretty good at telling us stuff. We get weekly school newsletters which used to be on paper (and still are if you ask) but are now mostly emailed. Also 6 year group newsletters per year, and regular mass-SMS texts for important and urgent info. They have recently adopted a smartphone app which is incompatible with my phone, which is annoying.

Less good at being open to communication from home to school though. What would be the best ideas to suggest for promoting that?