Parents & Carers
Working Together
Working in partnership with parents and carers
At Trinity, we believe that strong partnerships between home and school are essential for helping every student succeed. By working together with parents and carers, we can support students to achieve their full potential both academically and personally. We ask families to support the school in several key ways, and in return we are committed to providing a supportive, high-quality learning environment for every child.
What we ask from parents and carers
To help ensure the best outcomes for students, we ask parents and carers to:
- Ensure your child attends school regularly, arrives on time, is properly equipped, and wears the correct school uniform.
- Contact the school on the first morning of any absence and confirm the reason in writing.
- Inform the school of any concerns or problems that may affect your child’s learning or behaviour.
- Support school policies and adhere to the Code of Conduct outlined in the Student Planner.
- Support your child with homework and encourage opportunities for learning at home.
- Take an active interest in your child’s school life, including attending parents’ evenings and discussions about progress.
Our commitment to you and your child
In return, the school will:
- Ensure that your child achieves their full potential as a valued member of the school community.
- Provide a balanced curriculum that meets the individual needs of each student.
- Maintain high standards of work and behaviour by building positive relationships and encouraging responsibility.
- Keep parents informed about school matters and their child’s progress.
- Be open, welcoming and provide opportunities for parents to become involved in school life.
- Set realistic academic targets and encourage students to achieve them.
- Contact parents if there are concerns about attendance, punctuality or equipment.
- Address concerns raised by parents effectively and promptly.
- Set, mark and monitor homework and provide facilities for students to complete homework in school.
- Arrange Parents’ Evenings to discuss student progress.
Homework
Parents are asked to help by:
Making it clear that you support the school in helping learning through homework.
Providing a suitable, reasonably quiet place where homework can be done. If this is not possible in the home you can help your son or daughter to attend other places where homework can be done e.g. the homework club or breakfast club at school, the school library or public library.
Checking the ‘Show My Homework’ website to monitor the homework set for your child and the dates when it should be handed in.
Encouraging your child to organise their time so that homework is completed well before the deadline, preferably on the evening it is set.
Reporting progress to parents
Pupil progress is monitored in all subjects. Progress is reported to parents in three different ways: an End of Key Stage Report, three termly Progress Reports and a Parents’ Consultation Evening.
Working together – Our home school agreement
We look forward to working in partnership with you in supporting your child to celebrate the values of Trinity Together. You can download a copy of our Home School Agreement here.
Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA)
The Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA) is a nationally recognised award for schools that work closely with families to support student learning and wellbeing. The award helps Trinity CofE High School strengthen communication with families and build positive relationships with parents and carers. The assessment is carried out by AwardPlace, an external organisation. Through this process, we aim to build on the strong relationships already in place with our families and create even more opportunities for parents to be involved in school life.
What does the school have to do to achieve the award?
The award has 9 areas of development. The school needs to work toward meeting all of them, to achieve the award:
- Demonstrate a commitment to work towards achieving the LPPA
- Make and implement effective plans to achieve and maintain the LPPA
- Show the school is a welcoming, communicative and friendly place for parents
- Promote the awareness and participation of all groups of parents/carers in supporting their children’s learning and developing their own learning. In addition, the school holds and actively promotes a programme of opportunities and events for joint parent and child participation
- Provide a good induction for all new parents/carers
- Provide parents/carers with relevant and user-friendly guidance and information to help them to support their children’s learning
- Produce and implement parent-friendly policies to establish effective home–school links and to improve children’s attendance, punctuality, progress and positive participation in school
- Provide good support for all parents as their children move through or leave the school
- Summarise our achievements against the LPPA objectives and outlines our future plans
As part of the process, the school gathers evidence to demonstrate progress in each area. A working group meets every half term to review feedback and identify improvements across the school. Research shows that greater parental involvement in school life can lead to improved student progress, attendance, punctuality and behaviour.
How you can help
Your views and opinions as a parent, carer or guardian are extremely important to us. From time to time, we will send questionnaires via Class Charts to gather your feedback. We encourage you to complete these surveys, as your responses help us understand your experiences and make positive improvements for our school community.
We will keep you up to date of our progress and thank you for your support.
If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Ripley via the main school office.
LPPA – Leading Parent Partnership Award | AwardPlace – This is an external site, and we are not responsible for its content.
