Parents' views

Partnerships with parents promote learning and extend children’s development.

Working together we actively support children’s learning and development.  Together we support each child’s learning to help them achieve their best and to meet their own unique needs.

Each year we gather feedback from parents in a variety of different ways.  Parental feedback helps shape the next stage of our development and improvement:

• Annual Parents’ Questionnaire results.  Read the summary of all responses from our latest survey:

Pupil voice

In the academic year 2024-2025 our chosen charities to support are: 

• Log cabin as our local charity 
• Shelter as our national charity 
• Save the children as our global charity

We will support one of these charities each term with the whole school learning about what that charity does and supporting them through a school fundraising event. We linked this to our Values based Education and the core value Empathy. 

 

Charities we have supported previously 

2023-2024

• Ealing Food bank as our local charity
• Cancer research as our national charity
• World Wildlife Fund (WFF)as our global charity

 

2022-2023

• Ealing hospital as our local charity
• Cancer research as our national charity
• Ukrainian Red Cross as our global charity

 

 

2021-2022

• Ealing Food bank as our local charity
• RSPCA as our national charity
• World Wildlife Fund (WFF)as our global charity

 

Parliament Assemblies

During the school year, we regularly hold whole school 'Parliament' style assemblies where we come together to discuss issues, giving every child a voice in the life of our school:

• A whole cohort of children from Year 6 to Year 1 join together in one of our hall spaces.
• Children work in small circle groups of up to 6 children. 
• The oldest children, usually Year 6 age, become group leaders, making sure that everyone in the group feels welcomed and contributes. 
• The next oldest children, usually Year 5 age, act as scribes for the group, recording the outcomes of each discussion.

Democracy in action:

• Children discuss issues and come to a consensus of opinion, sometimes by voting or by taking the view of the majority for the group. 
• Children's views help to guide school leaders and governors evaluate the strengths of the school and steer our improvements.

So far we have focused on:

October 2023- Behaviour and expectations, review

Pupils reviewed our updated procedures. Find out more below.

July 2023 - Behaviour expectations

Pupils thought about what they liked and didn't like about our behaviour system. They suggested new Golden Rules.

May 2023- Charities 

Star Leaders and their deputies  researched a wide range of charities. The children from years 1- 6 voted in a parliament assembly for the final 3, see above.

March 2022 - Curriculum, teaching and learning

Remote video assembly with pupils sharing their views in class and together as a whole school through mentimeter.com. Pupils' views help leaders think more about our curriculum and how we teach pupils. Results below. 

May 2021 - Choosing charities to support

Our Year 6 Star Leaders chose a shortlist of 3 local, 3 national and 3 global charities that we could support next academic year. They created a PowerPoint presentation that had details about each charity including what they do and what school values link to the work done by the charities. Each class then voted for the charities they would like to support. The charities chosen are: Ealing Food bank, RSPCA and World Wildlife Fund (WFF).

March 2021 - Behaviour and rewards

This term, during lockdown we did our parliament assembly in a slightly different way. Our Year 6 Star Leaders and their deputies created an online form for all pupils to complete. We wanted to find out about how well our behaviour and rewards systems is working. The Star Leaders and their deputies then got together to analyse the results and make suggestions for improvements.

Watch our assembly to find out more: Parliament assembly results

Updated policy and procedures:  Policies

October 2019 - Play

This term in Parliament assemblies children have shared their views on the following aspects of play. Which sports & games have children enjoyed participating in, and suggestions for others we could add to our lunchtime sessions.

• Dodgeball, Football, and Gymnastics and Dance received most votes for sports and games currently offered.
• Tennis, Cricket & Tag Rugby were the most popular choices as sports to add. We are currently planning activities for 2020, and will look to include these.

How to further increase participation by girls during lunchtime sports sessions.

• Children were in favour of retaining days for girls only, boys only and mixed sessions.
• Children were not certain of when they had their opportunity to participate, and missed their sessions. We are looking into more effective ways of updating children about the lunchtime sports and games timetable.

Wet Play

• Over 80% of children were aware that we endeavour to play outside in most weather, and the need to bring appropriate clothing each day.

Improving the Outdoor Space

• The most popular choices for improving the outdoor space were adding quiet spaces for reading or chatting with friends, areas to build dens and having a creative space for arts & crafts

May 2019 - Charity Work

This term in parliament assembly our children have thinking about the charities they would like to support next school year.  The children have selected Ealing Food bank (local), Hearing dogs (National) and Ocean Conservancy (Global).

November 2018 - Eco-committee

This term our parliament assemblies have focused on the work of the eco-committee.