Dear Parent/Carers,
Happy New Year! I trust you all had a great holiday.
As I hope you all know, we very much take on board the views of all our children and parents. These views are regularly shared with the Newdale teams.
We consult with pupils through every Governor meeting, and phase leaders/subject leaders also carry out additional pupil voice regularly over the year.
We believe that school and home very much need to work in partnership, with children being at the centre. There simply must be a two-way feeling of trust between school and home, along with open, honest lines of communication.
I have always prioritised having a school ‘open door’ policy where we offer many different ways of communication for parents to use, including a class email address, many staff on duty am and pm (including senior managers), office staff and home school communication books to name a few of these. The hope is always that if parents do want to relay any messages, that they can easily and rapidly.
Thank you to the 47 parents that have already filled in our request to complete Parent View this academic year.
We would very much appreciate it if many more parents would complete this survey so we can gain a fuller picture of your opinions of Newdale.
https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/login?destination=give-your-views
We have already begun looking carefully at the small number of responses. A significant majority of our parents continue to be really happy with the Newdale offer – thankyou. I understand that we cannot please everyone, but I can reassure you that all teams certainly try so hard to do just that. I am lucky enough to visit very many other schools, and I know as fact that Newdale goes above and beyond in its offer for the children we have. This is regularly verified by external visitors including our School Improvement Advisor, Local Authority quality assurance visits, safeguarding audits and of course our Ofsted visits. We are incredibly proud of the Outstanding Ofsted result which we gained in May 2023. There are only a very small number of schools across the entire country that manage the ‘double outstanding’ judgement. I hope this is external reassurance that our school continues to be operating at a very high level.
As stated, I am under no illusion that we cannot please everyone, however, that does not stop us from trying to. We are all on the same side and should be focussed on working together to support children to be the best they can be.
Thank you for your support in ensuring our school continues to grow in a positive way for all of our children.
Miss Cook
