Parent Engagement

1/3/2024

At Silverwood all parents/carers are equally valued as part of our school community. We recognise parent, carers and families are the most important influence in a child’s life.

Parental engagement has a significant impact on a child’s learning and has a positive effect on educational outcomes and wellbeing.

We therefore promote positive partnerships with all our families and promote regular communication between home and school.

Our approach provides a framework in which all parent/carers can engage meaningfully in the education of their child and school life, express their views and have these taken into consideration on matters effecting the education of their child.

Our Aim:

To enhance the learning experiences of all pupils.
To encourage parents and carers to be involved in their children’s learning.
Provide a partnership between home and school, seeking to ensure that families feel welcome and valued.
Recognise that parent and carer involvement is multi-dimensional and that families have a role to play in fulfilling our core vision, building community and inspiring learning.
We place our shared school values at the heart of everything we do.

Our Commitment:

To establish and sustain a positive learning culture where parental input is welcomed, respected and valued.
Implement strategies to identify and remove discriminatory barriers that limit engagement by pupils, parents/carers and our diverse communities.
Actively explore and utilise opportunities to further engage parents at school and at home to support pupil outcomes.
Inform pupils and parent/carers about learning expectations and their child’s educational progress.
Support opportunities for parent/carers to develop or strengthen skills and knowledge related to their child’s specific complex needs.
Review and establish self‐ assessment processes to determine the effectiveness of our parent engagement strategies.

Self-Evaluation:

We continue to evaluate the effectiveness of our partnership with our parents and carers by:

Attendance at parents evening/ consultations/ open days/ workshops
Feedback from parent surveys
Attendance at school events

Parent / Carer Workshops

Full details about current workshops can be found here:

2023/24 Workshops

Information about previous workshops can be found here:

2022/23 Workshops

Parent / Carer Surveys

At Silverwood School we are committed to listening to the views and opinions of our parent/carers by conducting parent surveys. These provide us with a general and broad picture of feedback from the parent/ carer body and questions typically cover:

Satisfaction with the school curriculum, teaching, behaviour and communication with parents
Effectiveness of the school’s approaches on key issues such as anti-bullying and homework
Perceptions of how well the school encourages children to work hard at school, be healthy and treat others with respect
Perceptions on progression, standard of teaching, happiness of child and support when joining the school
Satisfaction with how the school creates a safe environment
Effectiveness of school leaders
Overall satisfaction with the school
Open responses to what is good and what could be improved in the school

Please find the latest survey results below:

November 2023 Survey Results