Thank you to the parents who visited us this morning. Each parent watched the teaching and learning in two classes (30 minutes each), then discussed what they’d seen with Mrs Weekes and me. The feedback was really positive and very useful. Here are some of the comments:
- “This was a great opportunity to visit the school and see lessons taking place. Great behaviour in classes. Nice mix of teaching styles.”
- “Great teaching and behaviour and lots of learning… All the children were on task and knew what they were doing.”
- “In Year 4, there was excellent rapport with kids who were on-task and motivated.”
- “The varied teaching methods, the engagement of the classes, the level of knowledge all impressed me.”
- “In Year 2, lots of support and the children knew what they were doing.”
- “Everyone was involved in Year 1 – all the children were concentrating despite being so young. There were lots of methods to teach.”
Parents raised some points for us to consider:
- they wondered whether the level of challenge for highest attaining pupils could be even better – we’ll discuss with the teachers, but it may be that in the short session, this challenge was missed as it’s built in to all lessons, meaning so many children leave school attaining much higher than the national averages (see the news post: ‘A Happy and Healthy AND EFFECTIVE place to learn!’, 09.01.15)
- they encouraged us to have more, similar events (and, based on this, we’ve planned in three open afternoons where parents can come in up to half an hour earlier than the close of school to look at homework and / or topic learning: Wednesday 04 March (homework review), Wednesday 18 March (Big Topic review), Friday 01 May (setting homework). Please do try to attend.