Parents - How can you help?

Moving schools can be an exciting but worrying time for your child. Below is a list of ways in which you can offer support and help your child.

• Attend all the Parent Information Evenings
• Meet the form tutor and Head of Year and discuss any concerns or information that will need to be shared.
• Attend the family interview when you are invited so you can meet staff. These will be held in the summer term and you will receive a letter.
• Get informed about the school by reading the information pack we provide. Your child will bring this home with them from Junior School.
• Read carefully all the information provided to you. Share this with your child. It may answer many of the questions that you both have.
• Ask the Junior School for advice. They will also offer support to your child about moving on.

Parents and Communication

The form tutor is a very important person in you and your child's life. They should be the first person that you contact if there is an issue or problem that you wish to discuss. Make sure you take the opportunity given to meet him or her after school on the taster day. This information will be passed directly to the Head of Year.

There is space in the journal that your child will be provided with to write brief notes or messages that you wish the form tutor or subject teacher to read. There is also space for absence notes, but it is helpful to us if you could telephone the school in the morning if your child is ill.

If there is a problem then please inform us. If we don't know, then we can't help.