At Apley Wood Primary Academy, we like to work closely with parents, carers and the local community to ensure that every child is provided with everything they need to succeed at school. If you feel there are any issues we should be made aware of, or there is anything you would like to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to contact the school office and book an appointment with an appropriate member of staff.
Your feedback is very important to us. Thank you for all of your comments they really do help us to shape future plans and improvements.
Each year we complete surveys for parents and pupils to give us feedback about our school, what we do well and what we may need to work on together.
If you haven’t given your views so far this year, please go to Parent View and share them with us.
Here are some headlines from our Summer 2024 Annual Survey:
100% agree/strongly agree the school is welcoming and friendly.
98% agree/strongly agree we provide good support for learning to read.
98% agree/strongly agree we have high expectations for our children.
Here are some examples of the comments we received from parents:
- We are pleased with the progress the girls are making academically and socially. The school have worked with us through any issues we have had and resolved them. The support from Mrs Thorpe and Mrs Beardwood with regards to SEN needs have been very good.
- Lovely staff and warm welcoming. Brilliant provisions for before and after school for working parents.
- We’ve been so happy with all of the help and support xxx has received over the last 7 years. We have really valued the extra curricular opportunities, visits, trips, fixtures etc. Thank you to everyone.
- Thank you to everyone. xxx has made such good progress this year and her teacher has been wonderful for her.
- xxx loves school. Thank you to everyone who supports her.
- This school is Fantastic I would highly recommend to other parents.
- The school have been very supportive with xxx mental health needs
- My daughter has a great improvement in English language, which l don’t anticipate in this period. Thank you….
- The dinner ladies have also been amazing.
- xxx loves attending school and thrives in all aspects of learning. Thank you all so much 🙂
- Apley wood primary school is good platform for children having qualified , helpful staff .
- Over all I am happy with the support I have got from teachers… Thank you all…
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Communication:
Whilst we had some positive comments about communication, we also had some comments that it could be better. |
We acknowledge that some communication has changed as we have joined the multi academy trust and our admin team are getting used to new systems and processes.
from September we will communicate in the following ways:
Letters will be emailed, a copy put on the website for you to read and some copies will be available in the reception office area for you to collect.
Important dates will be sent out at the start of each term and updated on the website.
Weekly newsletter will continue to be emailed and is also available on the newsletter page on the website for you to see the current and previous copies.
Text messages are very expensive for business use so we will no longer be sending regular text messages when we can use email and the website for free.
Please use the absence email absence@apleywoodprimary.org to report any absences or call school before 8.30am. If you send absence through the main admin email, it may not be picked up early in the school day.
Social media – we do have a school twitter account, however, that does have limited use. We will be working with the Reach2 marketing team to look at developing better/different social media accounts for school use over the next academic year. |
Curriculum– some year groups have more opportunities than other year groups.
The curriculum seems more exciting in some year groups. |
We are excited to be taking on the Reach2 11b411 activities, which will be led across school by Miss Whitehouse from September, this will ensure all children have access to a high quality enrichment experiences across their time at Apley Wood Primary Academy. You can find out more about this on the link: 11 Before 11 – REAch2 Academy Trust
We are also developing our Geography, History and Science curriculum further now that we have opportunity to network across more schools. We will be adding some different history units for some year groups next year and every year group will begin learning about sustainability through our developments to our science and geography curriculums over the next academic year. We will be ensuring we make use of our fantastic grounds with these developments. More information about this will be available on the website as the changes are implemented. |
Bullying
Whilst 90% agreed that either bullying is dealt with well or they/their children haven’t experienced it (which is great) we have received some comments that bullying isn’t dealt with. |
We have an extensive anti bullying curriculum through our PSHE (character education) curriculum, online safety curriculum, assembly offer and through our children’s safeguard squad. We also teach the British values including respect and tolerance. This is all linked to our three school rules of be ready, be respectful, be safe.
When bullying occurs, it is dealt with in line with policy and logged on our behaviour monitoring system so a record is kept. Any significant behaviour incidents are reported to Governors and the Trust, half termly.
During the next academic year in addition to the above we will:
Develop a clearer behaviour curriculum to work alongside our antibullying policy and positive behaviour policy.
During anti bullying week in November we will hold a parent workshop about bullying – what it is, what it isn’t and how school deal with bullying. |
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