Swiss Cottage School work closely with parents, carers, and families to ensure pupils reach their full potential. We promote partnerships with families through key systems and processes, including:
1) Open communication
Families receive their child’s targets (Personal Learning Intention Map), timetable, medium term planning aims, and class team updates each term. The school promotes communication that values working together, celebrating successes, and problem solving with the solution as the aim. Each day, families and staff communicate through a home/school diary.
2) Evidence for Learning Journals
The school uses the online system Evidence for Learning (EfL). Every family has a protected login and receive updates on their child’s learning every two weeks to share their progress and achievements. Families are invited to share key experiences from the home environment on EfL so that class teams can learn and incorporate this into the class planning.
3) Family Learning Weeks
We invite families in three times a year to join a lesson, performance, or class celebration. The aim is to have regular visits to school to celebrate learning together, and to get to know their child’s peers and key staff.
4) Weekly Coffee Mornings
The school hosts a weekly coffee morning to bring parents and carers together to share ideas, discuss updates, engage in useful workshops and meet key team members from LA services.
