To really engage with your parents, the schools main stakeholders, research has shown that sending out a survey each term (3 per year) each on a different subject is the best way to gather feedback and insights into what your parents want from the school. It is also strongly recommended that you share the results of each survey with parents, as this shows openness to all, and reinforces the effectiveness of the surveys.
Below is listed the current library of surveys we have available. We recommend that the Annual Survey is completed once a year, and after the first year we can provide benchmarks against the previous years results to highlight any improvements or negative changes in parental views.
I have just been reading the excellent article from @nicola_slawson in the Guardian about the demise of the staff room as a communal space. Her premise is that this could be down to three main factors:
As Brexit looms on the horizon, we ask what leaving the European Union will do to the UK’s teacher workforce
A group of education unions have written to the new secretary of state, asking him to boost the proposed teacher pay rise to 5%
Four days before the start of the new school year, I sat naming my personal stock of green marking pens. I doubt they will make it into October, but every year I buy a reel of Sellotape and get to work.
In Birmingham, there were 41 permanent posts that were being filled by supply teachers on a temporary basis - on top of a further 34 positions that were not filled at all
What does it take to create a collective staff? This is an age-old concern of all management. How to create a collective and channelled purpose whilst not enforcing a stifling artificial culture. We have seen various incarnations over the years, organised team building, “you will have fun” nights out, instructions how to do it at Inset all which have not really transferred well from corporate culture to education.
Worst schools staffing crisis in decades as new teachers quit in record numbers
One in five teachers said nothing would persuade them to apply for a job at a low-performing disadvantaged school, research says. State schools in deprived areas are more likely to struggle to fill teacher vacancies which has a knock-on effect on the quality of teaching that pupils receive, a report from Sutton Trust suggests