I am writing to inform you of an exciting opportunity for your child to take part in extra Music sessions at Woodlane. In addition to KS3’s music lessons on a Monday, the school will now be hosting Sounds Like Hammersmith & Fulham sessions at lunchtimes on Mondays too, starting on Monday 3^rd October.

Woodlane High School will be hosting a Virtual Open Evening on Wednesday 21^st September from 4pm.

Thank you to parents and carers for your responses to our questionnaire.  The total response rate was 25, which was 23% of school population.

Please download the full summary below.  

Summary of parents/carers who answered each question:

It should be noted that our response rate was approximately 50% lower than usual (the data was collected online for the first time).

• An average of 95% agreed/strongly agreed with the questions, 2 parents consistently disagreed.
• 96% of parents feel the school has a calm and positive atmosphere (1 parent disagreed).
• 96% parents feel the school provides a relevant curriculum for their child (1 parent disagreed).
• 100% of parents feel the school has sufficiently high expectations of their child.
• 92% of parents feel school trips and visits are worthwhile experiences (2 parents disagreed/strongly disagreed).
• 91% of parents feel their child enjoys the activities organised for break and lunch times (2 parents disagreed/strongly disagreed).
• 100% of parents feel the school runs a useful breakfast club.
• 91% of parents feel the school provides a healthy and mixed menu for school dinners (2 parents strongly disagreed).
• 100% of parents feel welcome when they visit the school.
• 100% of parents feel when they contact the school, the staff are helpful and approachable.
• 92% of parents feel their child’s annual review is a useful meeting (2 parents disagree). 
• 92% of parents feel the annual parents’ evening is helpful, providing them with useful information about their child’s progress (2 parents disagree/strongly disagree).
• 92% of parents feel their child benefits from the positive behaviour policy and enjoys getting merits (2 parents disagree). 
• 91% of parents feel the school deals well with complaints and problems (2 parents disagree/strongly disagree).
• 100% of parents feel the school encourages good attendance.
• 92% of parents are aware that the school has a Governing Body, which has overall responsibility for the school (2 parents disagree). 
• 96% of parents feel the school helps prepare pupils for an independent life (1 parent disagrees).
• 96% of parents feel the school engages well with parents/carers (1 parent disagrees).
• 92% of parents feel their child receives relevant and regular homework (2 parents disagree/strongly disagree).
• 96% of parents feel the school site is safe (1 parent disagrees).
• 96% of parents feel the school’s website is a useful resource (1 parent disagrees).
• 100% of parents feel their child was helped to settle in well when he/she first started at the school.
• 88% of parents would recommend the school to another parent of a child with special needs (3 parents disagreed.  1 parent who disagreed, agreed with every other question, therefore, this may be an error). 
• 92% of parents believe that Woodlane is an excellent school (2 parents disagreed)

Action:

• Request completion of questionnaire at parents’ evening to increase responses. 
• Introduce break and lunch time curriculum.
• Invite governors to school events to meet parents.
• Continue efforts to support 2 x dissatisfied parents, improving satisfaction in specific areas.
• Lead Practitioner to hold Annual Review for 2 x dissatisfied parents in this area. 
• Advise parents that ‘Curriculum Maps’ are available on the school website, which can be found under each subject’s curriculum area – these provide detailed information which outlines what the pupils are learning and when.
• Introduce changes to parents’ evening:

• Offer in person and virtual appointments
• Provide progress information on a termly basis
• Increase the number of parents’ evenings
• Ensure a parents’ evening is earlier in the year
• Continue to offer a range of extra-curricular visits throughout the entire year, focus on subject areas where less visits are offered.
• Ensure homework is offered consistency across all subjects, using the same format. 
• Upload questionnaire results to school website, send newsfeed summary of results.
• Reflect statistics in school self-evaluation/ include relevant targets and action in school improvement plan.

Every year we survey our pupils to gain their views on Woodlane High School and our practices.  Given the significant challenges of the past two years, the senior managers and governors are pleased with this year’s results, however, we aim for 100% in every area next year!  Please download the attachments below for further details.