Parent Forum
Parent Forum
At the Grange School we value the importance of school community and ensuring that as a school we work together to improve the provision that we offer. The Parent Forum is a partnership between parents and the school. It is a valuable way to share ideas, views, concerns and make suggestions for improvement. Each session we share developments that are taking place within the school and ask for feedback alongside introducing new improvements to gain parental feedback before implementation. We value the importance of parents being part of the processes of development.
As a member, you have:
- a right to advice and information about your child's education at the school
- the opportunity to be more involved with what the school is doing
- the opportunity, along with all the other parents, to have your views represented
The aims of the Parent Forum The Forum exists for the benefit of all the children at the Grange school. The improvement of students’ learning should be the Forum’s clear and consistent goal. The Forum is a means to feed information from TGS to parents and parents to the school. The Forum is not to be used for raising specific issues about individual children or staff or to raise complaints. There are other processes in place in school to address these.
Key aims are:
- work together to improve the education provided for our students
- share information, knowledge and skills
- meet in a mutually supportive environment
- further improve communications between parent/carers and staff/governors
Attendance The Head teacher welcomes attendance of all parents. Governors and other members of staff are also invited to attend. Everyone will be invited to contribute.
Meeting structure Although Forum meetings are informal, there will be a structured agenda set by the Head teacher in collaboration with parents:
- A welcome and introduction by a member of staff
- Feedback on issues/action points from previous Forum as required
- Agenda shared, focusing on specific focus for the Forum
- Opportunities for parents to discuss/generate ideas on focus
- Feedback from parents
Frequency
Meetings will take place once a half term, between 6 and 7 pm, in the Staff Room.
Dates for 2020 to 2021 are:
Thursday 22nd October 2020
Thursday 10th December 2020
Thursday 11th February 2021
Thursday 25th March 2021
Thursday 20th May 2021
Thursday 1st July 2021
Outcomes All PowerPoints shared at the meetings and reports of the feedback given is shared on this website page. All feedback is taken by the school and this will help to develop a better understanding of the view and needs of parents and how we might address and incorporate them in school developments and practices. Benefits to parents are that they will have a greater understanding of the way the school operates, have more information about their children's education and the quality of that education, be able to contribute to the strategic direction of the school and share in the vision for the school.
Parent Voice We also ensure that at school open evenings and events we ask members of the parent forum to join the events to create a parent voice group. This gives prospective parents the opportunity to discuss the school with other parents that already have children attend TGS.
