Headteacher: Alan Harding
Phone: 01344-
Parent Information Hotline: 08447 70 75 76 and enter our School ID: 65086
Questionnaire for Parents
Thank you to all those parent who completed the questionnaire that were sent out at the end of the summer term July 2009 with the reports. 134 responses were received. The responses and views will help staff and governors continue to develop the school.
The table below shows the responses and below that some of the comments.
|
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Strongly agree
|
Agree
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Disagree
|
Strongly disagree
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Don’t know
|
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My child enjoys going to school.
|
78
58%
|
52
39%
|
3
2%
|
1
0.7%
|
0
|
|
Most Birch Hill children are well behaved.
|
30
22%
|
96
72%
|
6
4%
|
0
|
2
1.5%
|
|
My child’s full academic potential is realised.
|
38
28%
|
80
60
|
7
5%
|
2
1.5%
|
7
5%
|
|
Staff expect my child to work hard and do his or her best.
|
62
46%
|
70
52%
|
1
0.7%
|
1
0.7%
|
0
|
|
My child receives a well-
|
56
41%
|
75
65%
|
0
|
0
|
3
2.2%
|
|
My child is receiving a balanced moral education from the school.
|
51
38%
|
78
58%
|
1
0.7%
|
0
|
3
2.2%
|
|
My children know when they have done well at school and are suitably rewarded.
|
67
50%
|
59
44%
|
4
3%
|
0
|
5
3.7%
|
|
The school organises a good range of visits and extra activities.
|
47
35%
|
70
52%
|
12
9%
|
0
|
5
3.7%
|
|
The progress reports I receive on my child are informative and timely.
|
52
39%
|
74
55%
|
9
6.7%
|
0
|
0
|
|
I feel that the homework my child is set is clear, useful and at the right level.
|
29
22%
|
72
54%
|
14
10%
|
6
4.5%
|
6
4.5%
|
|
The school provides me with enough information to enable me to help my child learn.
|
34
25%
|
75
56%
|
21
16%
|
1
0.7%
|
2
1.5%
|
|
I feel encouraged to take an active part in my child’s education.
|
50
37%
|
70
52%
|
10
7.5%
|
1
0.7%
|
2
1.5%
|
|
The school keeps me well informed on the curriculum.
|
37
28%
|
87
65%
|
8
6%
|
1
0.7%
|
0
|
|
The staff are friendly and approachable.
|
70
52%
|
59
44%
|
4
3%
|
0
|
0
|
|
I feel comfortable about approaching the school with questions.
|
63
47%
|
67
50%
|
4
3%
|
0
|
0
|
|
Birch Hill has a caring and friendly environment.
|
68
50%
|
63
46%
|
0
|
0
|
2
1.5%
|
|
The school achieves acceptable SATs results.
|
35
26%
|
64
48%
|
2
1.5%
|
0
|
31
23%
|
|
The school has well laid out and kept accommodation.
|
64
48%
|
66
49%
|
1
0.7%
|
0
|
3
2.2%
|
|
The outside environment of the school benefits the children’s learning.
|
66
49%
|
63
47%
|
1
0.7%
|
0
|
4
3%
|
|
The arrangements for my son or daughter to settle in when he or she started at the school were good (Only answered if child started school after September 2008)
|
15
44%
|
17
50%
|
0
|
0
|
2
5.9%
|
|
I would prefer
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134 replies in total; Nursery- Reception- Y1- Y2- Y3- Y4- Y5- Y6- Unknown year group- | |||||
89 questionnaires added comments:
Please list what you consider to be the strengths of the school:
· Well-
· Approachable, dedicated, friendly & professional staff; “The personal touch”; the teachers know and care about the children;
· The relationship between teachers and children;
· Positive, happy, caring, enthusiastic atmosphere; “My child starts and finishes smiling”
· Community spirit-
· Encouragement of pupils, rewards & empathy and caring attitudes; (caring attitude towards not only pupils but extended to parents);
· Children encouraged to grow into a considerate as well as a learned individual;
· Children treated as individuals not as statistics;
· Children are well-
· Behaviour-
· Communication with parents;
· PTA;
· Involving pupils-
· Community links, outside visits and visitors;
· Reward recognition programme;
· Varied curriculum;
· Moral teaching.
What aspects of the school would you like to see improved?
Frequently mentioned:
· Homework-
· Reporting/feedback of pupil progress;
· Communication with working parents;
· Understanding what children do during the day;
· Leppington crossing patrol;
Less frequently mentioned
· More time for the less formal curriculum areas;
· After school clubs for younger children.
· Stretching individuals;
· More school trips;