November 10th 2017
Communication between the school and parents is absolutely key. The school has put various systems in place over the past three years to streamline this most notably The Week Ahead and The Weekly Round-Up, and we also encourage open communication between parents and staff. I am particularly grateful to the ladies in the school office who manage much of the flow of information in and out of the school on a daily basis. As a school, we appreciate that there is always room for us to improve our communication and we are exploring ways of doing so.
In my 20 years of teaching, I have noticed a significant increase in the volume of direct communication between parents and teachers. This is a largely positive trend, but it is worth making some observations. As an organisation, we want to respond both thoroughly and professionally to all communications with parents. To do so often involves many conversations, meetings (possibly with staff, boys and parents) and data collection which all has to take place at school mostly within the academic day.
To make the whole process more efficient for everyone, please could I ask parents to consider the following: first, much of the information you may need is likely to be disseminated in the Week Ahead. Second, please trust the channels of communication if you need to raise an issue. In the first instance, this is likely to be your son’s form tutor or subject teacher. Many issues can be dealt with at source without the need for parents to go direct to the senior management of the school. Communication between the staff is extremely good, and even if not directly involved, our structures are such that the senior management is made aware of the issues and concerns relating to individual boys.
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