Working with Parents and Carers

The Brian Clarke Church of England Academy works closely with parents and carer, as partners in their children’s education and development, in the following ways:

• By enabling parents to access information about their child’s learning, attendance and behaviour online through the My Child At School app.
• By sharing the essential learning through curriculum overviews for each subject.
• By providing continuity of key personnel: form tutors, senior pastoral officers and year heads who take their year group from Year 7 through to Year 11, so that parents know who to contact and supportive relationships on behalf of our young people can be developed.
• By formally reporting 3 times a year including a face-to-face meeting with their child’s form tutor and subject teachers.
• By celebrating young people’s achievements in learning and in their personal development through social media channels, the News and Events section of the website and the half termly school newsletter.
• By making the school and its resources where possible available to the community that we serve and provide services for parents/carers that will help them support their children.
• By holding termly parent forums, an annual parent/carer survey and feeding back to parents: “You said – we did” via the school newsletter.