School Profile

How are we working with parents and the community?

The school’s links with the wider community, including extended school activities.

· Parents receive information about their child's progress on at least a termly basis and are welcome to find out on a daily basis.

· Stakeholder surveys are sent out every term to gather parent's views. Findings from these are used to move the school forward and act upon anything needing development.

· As a result of parents requesting more information on display, a parent notice board is now is full operation, giving details of not only what is happening in school but the wider community.

· A member of staff is part of the Aspley Community Partnership & relays what is happening in the wider community.

· The Head teacher makes she is available every morning on the school drive for parents.

· We have links with Sure Start, Health services, SENCO, Portage, EIP and Malt. There are good foundations with a range of services, which are have grown since the launch of the Every Child Matters agenda & launch of Children’s Services within the Nottingham City.

· Place2Be is run successfully in the school & has been since 2006, where children, parents or teachers can avail themselves of therapeutic support. This contributes to the good overall caring ethos of the school.

· School has a breakfast club

What have pupils told us about the school, and what we have done as a result.

Stakeholder Surveys are conducted every term. As a result of our ‘what is school like’ survey, pupils gave the most positive responses about:

There are fun things to do and clubs to join after school and at lunchtimes that make children want to come to this school.

I know what’s expected of me in terms of behaviour and attendance at school.

I behave well at school.

The adults at school care about me.

If someone upsets me at school I know an adult will help me

I know what will happen to me if I behave badly at school.

School Council

As we are a very large school, we have four ‘Phase Councils’ in addition to a ‘Whole School Council,’ to ensure that all age groups are listened two.

Outcomes from their last two meetings have impacted with the children’s ideas being used for; Playground markings, Litter Bin designs and development of the internal courtyard area in the centre of the school.