Parent Questionnaires and Feedback

We asked all parents whose children are entitled to free school meals (or have been at any time in the last six years) to tell us what they thought was a supportive way to spend out funding. They felt the following would be a good use of funds:

• Art therapy

• Additional adults in class
• Nurture group
• Additional 1:1 support
• An adult who would check on their child's progress every week
• Lunch club

• Funding for school trips

Parent Questionnaire October 2016

Many thanks to the 120 parents who completed out parent questionnaire during Parent’s Evening in October. We were very pleased that 100% of parents would recommend the school to other parents and that the vast majority of other answers were positively answered by all but 6 parents.

We were very interested by your comments. All comments were positive and included:

I am very happy to have 3 children at Rowans. I think the school are working really hard to make improvements after the Ofsted report and I fully support them. Thank you

We are really pleased with how well our son is doing here and could not fault the school at all. Keep up the good work.

A couple of parents said:

No homework on the internet due to families not always having it. Get a swimming pool.

Wish there was some more of it (homework)

We will be reviewing our homework policy shortly and will take these comments into account. Unfortunately, a swimming pool, whilst it would be a great thing to have, is beyond our means currently.

6 parents put one negative tick on their questionnaire each. As these questionnaires are anonymous we have no way of identifying the parent but we would be open to discussing this with you. Please give the office a call.

Once again, many thanks for the time parents took to respond to the questionnaire and we are pleased that the school is on the right road.

A Very Happy New Parent

Today we received a lovely email from one of our many new families. What a great start to the new school year:

We welcomed Mrs Hudson to Rowans recently. She has made a great start in year one and a parent took the time to email us with this good news:

Coral, our maths link governor visited the school this week:

As the Maths Link governor part of my role is to visit to school and look at maths in action in the school. On Wednesday morning Miss Azzopardi showed me round into a few classes to see some of the great ways maths is being taught in our classrooms. It was so good to see the children of different ages really engaged and enjoying their learning and the teachers applying some fantastic new approaches, tools and resources to embedded an understanding of reasoning of maths not just the the numbers. Developing the children's ability to apply maths in the real world. A really insightful morning and great to see.  Thank you to the teachers and children for letting me join your lessons.

Coral