does NYONE thinkthey haev enough communication form school?

[FluffyMummy123]

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Tell us without evading the question how well our children are doing compared with
a. the national average
b. the rest of their class
c. what their potential is.

I want to know if my child is doing as well as he can and nobody ever gives me a straight answer.

We have home school books. Bt ds1 is in a special school (so we tend to exchange about half a page - page of an exercise book each every day), and ds2 is in a small class (small notebook- mainly communicate about after school club- but have used for comments/concerns). Might be tricky in a class of 30 though.

Have you been told you don't do enough then?

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Sounds a model school, blimey. Do people actually complain it's not enough ?

Sounds like communication is going well. I wish our school was as open.

I've never seen the head teacher at any parents evenings or the kids sports day.

Get them to suggest what else they want then. What you are doing sounds good to me. I have a home/school book for ds which is great but he has SN. I doubt that would be feasible for a whole class.

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That sounds a lot. More than dd's old primary, which I can't speak highly enough of. Some things they did:

They had loads of open evenings and presentations, as well as a termly one-to-one meeting with the teacher to discuss progress, which is a lot more than dd's previous primary.

Plus a newsletter every month, head teacher or deputy always there in the morning/after school.

Parents could book and come in to have a school dinner with their child (that was a great idea and very popular).

Their office staff were second to none, and always forwarded emails to teachers, were reassuring on the phone etc. School office staff are so important. The secretaries at dd's previous school were the devil incarnate.

A very good parents' association which also issued a monthly newsletter and had a separate website.

Any messages/notes in the home-school diaries were always answered without fail,even the most trivial questions.

Sounds like you are doing everything possible ! Very impressive - some people just have to have something to grumble about thoguh

Named governor to approach? Could allocate by class.

TBH I don't retain anything I've been told about communication routes until i have something to communicate, at which point I ring the school secretary, or attempt to talk to the head of the foundation stage at the busiest time of her day, etc. etc. It is JUST possible that if I had a named member of staff or governor to approach with any questions that I might do it. Still probably not though.

Funny that ofsted don't ask you to name the strengths and weaknesses of the parents.

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Sounds better than our school.

How about a school website and a prospectus (rules/regs)?

Noticeboards in the playground? For PTA, Governors, other school stuff?

We ahve home-school link books for ds1 and will ds3 which helps, but the teachers aren't available before or after school- you can make an appointment on a Thursday but its strictly one aprent a week (usually us )

So your school sounds fine

(BTW today I learned that postcode in welsh is Cod Post )

(PS you cant win- parents somplaine dabout not knowing what PA were doing so we aid 'but what about the newsletters we send?'.... 'Oh we dont read those' they said- their choice then!)

You see I have no idea if comparing them with the rest of the class is worthwhile because all they ever say is he is doing fine!

What if he is doing OK and the rest of the class are doing brilliantly or he is doing OK and the rest of the class is really crap. I have no idea if he could do better or not? Drives me potty. It's like they don't know.

Generally, I would want a list of important dates (plays, concerts, Inset days, parents evenings, etc) at the beginning of term

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