We value the importance of parental involvement in the curriculum we offer at Lockerley Primary School.  Parents’ involvement in their child’s learning offers many opportunities for success. According to research, parental involvement in their children’s education not only improves a child’s morale, attitude and academic achievement across all subject areas, but it also promotes better behaviour. It further says that family involvement in education helps children to grow up to be productive, responsible members of society. Therefore we work incredibly hard across the entire school curriculum to involve and engage the parents with their child’s learning.

Updates

The preferred method of communication with our parents is via the weekly whole school newsletter. This is the first port of call for parents to gain information on up-and-coming events and dates for the diary. We also use Arbour as a means to further communicate with families.

Termly Curriculum newsletters

This explains the subjects being covered and a brief outline of the aims within each subject. It also highlights any particular events happening each half-term and signposts parents to activities and learning opportunities at home to support their child.

Walk and Talk Boards

Class teachers put a walk and talk board outside their classroom with important reminders, learning updates and key information about school life.

Celebration of Learning

At the end of each half-term parents are invited into school so the children can share their learning. This takes many different forms across the year and in each class. It might be a ‘museum’ where the parents are invited to attend or a tea party or musical performance.

Termly Report

Following feedback from the parents we have introduced Termly Reports which briefly outline progress and attainment of each child at the end of each term.

Parent Consultations

We offer termly parent consultations to discuss progress, attainment and areas for development. We also offer optional parents evening after reports have gone out at the end of each term if the parents would like to discuss it further with the class teacher.

School Website & Social Media

Our school website and Facebook page is regularly updated with events and learning in school. Class pages on the website are updated by the class teachers with new learning.