2019 Parent Surveys

92% of parents rate the school good to excellent with 64% rating the school as very good or excellent. The 2019 survey confirmed the areas of our work parents rate highly.

Over 30 separate questions scored 90% or higher, the top 20 being:

• My child is safe in school
• Students show respect for LBGT
• Management of attendance/truancy
• Overall Quality of teaching
• Quality of challenge
• Leadership & Management
• Quality of cyber-safety education
• Quality of SRE
• Quality of healthy living education
• Quality of mental health/wellbeing education
• Quality of our equality education
• The range of subjects on offer.
• The quality of advice and guidance received by your child.
• My child understands their ILP and how it will help them (Y13)
• Usefulness of Newsblast
• Usefulness of website
• Explaining to parents how to help their child
• Management of punctuality
• Student behaviour outside lessons
• Attitudes in lessons

*28 areas in total showed an improvement on 2018.

Priorities set by parents for the next year:

• Continued work on information on reports (& feedback in books)
• Increased work on our Target Bullying strategy
• Introducing methods for wider reading and research
• Revisit the method and policy behind setting homework.
• Continued work on improving independence and resilience in students.