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October

Posted by on 11 October 2011 | 1 Comments

Where have all the blogs gone? Unfortunately I have not been near the website often enough so far this term. I hope I can make amends. The children our working hard and the routines are now back in place. The Autumn Term is always a great term for progress, with our children concentrating on forming good work habits and accelerating their learning. Thank-you for all the questionnaire replies. I have gleaned much from them. We will be issuing a summary for all parents to see. I hope you will have noticed some changes and additions to the school that have actually addressed some of the issues brought up.

As parents we always want to know how well our children are doing at school, both socially and academically. How do we know? When their books come home for prep, we have a look through at the standards of presentation and the comments from teacher's marking. We ask them 'what have you learnt today?'....not always receiving a coherent answer in return! We look at any National Curriculum levels and try to make sense of what they mean and we often can't help but try to compare them against other children in their year group or class. There is no substitute for talking to their teachers and this term we have a set of parent consultations to do just that. Although time is limited, due to the number of parents that have to be seen, it is an invaluable source of knowledge concerning your child's attainment, achievement, motivation and happiness. We have recognised this and so have increased the number of parents evenings this year rather than present a reduced written report at Christmas / Easter.

We have also improved our assessment methods so that we can get a more accurate and ongoing picture of the skills and attainment of pupils. Hopefully by this time next year you shall be able to access information about your children's performance via our website and parent portal. It will of course be secure and only visible to you.

We always want to know more about our children and their development and here at Eversfield we hope that we give you plenty of detail and information and that you are able to ask for more when needed. What extra information or methods of communicating would you like to see more of? - RY

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My kids usually study hard during the Autumn Term too to gain respect and maximum knowledge. To me, their grades don't make much difference, but for them, this is the way to gain self-confidence. It's important.

Posted by Esmi Wild, 01/03/2012 1:47pm (3 months ago)

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