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WIMBLEDON PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL

PARENTS SURVEY 2014

Summary

Survey responses show that parents perceptions of the school have improved very significantly over the past 18 months since the last survey o Children’s well-being has improved o Behaviour and safety are exceptional o Pastoral care remains a huge strength of the school (even improving as the school has grown) o The quality of teaching and academic standards have improved o Range and quality of the curriculum and extra-curricular activities is very strong

Parent comments attribute these higher standards and improvements largely to the dedication, skill and efforts of the teachers and staff team

Parents views about communication/interaction with the school has improved very significantly over the past 18 months (although there are areas still for development)

o Excellent communication about curriculum, events and activities, but too much email traffic o Parent comments are very positive about the accessibility of teachers and how they respond to questions or concerns o Communication about progress has also improved very significantly, but a few parents comments indicate this to be an area for further

consideration and development

Parents perceptions about homework have also improved o Much higher agreement about the level of appropriateness of home learning set, although a few parents want more homework

The school values all suggestions for improvement or development, and many of these are being formulated into the school development plans going forward

o Comments have been analysed for themes and issues o All responses have been reviewed and discussed by the senior leadership team, and will be by governors later this term

Survey Participation The survey of parents was completed at the end of the Autumn term 2014, 18 months after the last survey. A total of 197 responses were received, representing about one third of pupils at the school. Representation in the survey was reasonably consistent across the school. In terms of representation from the community, 75% of responses were from white British parents and 86% from white parents - minority ethnic groups are under-represented in the survey.

Responses by Class

% of responses by year group

Responses by Ethnic Group

0 5 10 15 20

Morning Nursery

Afternoon nursery

Durnsford

Lucien

Wellington

1B

1F

1T

2A

2B

2W

3M

3S

3T

4H

4K

5SF

5W

6F

6H

Respondents

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

Morning Nursery

Afternoon nursery

Durnsford

Lucien

Wellington

1B

1F

1T

2A

2B

2W

3M

3S

3T

4H

4K

5SF

5W

6F

6H

Fraction of the class

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

Asian other

Black African

Indian

Mixed Background

Not stated

Pakistani

White British

White Other

Proportion of all respondents

Behaviour and Safety

My child is happy at school

April 2013 agreement 89%

My child feels safe at school


All but a tiny number agree that their children are happy and safe at school, with a significant improvement over the past 18 months.

Wimbledon Park ensures that children are well-behaved


The school deals effectively with bullying/unacceptable behaviour

April 2013 disagreement 7%

Behaviour and safety are seen as exceptional, and perceptions of the way the school deals with bullying/unacceptable behaviour has improved markedly over the past 18 months.

Strongly Agree 78%

Agree 20%

Disagree 1%

Don't know 1%

Strongly Agree 74%

Agree 24%

Don't know 2%

Strongly Agree 56%

Agree 43%

Disagree 1%

Strongly Agree 34%

Agree 40%

Disagree 2%

Don't know 25%

Teaching and Learning

My child makes good progress at Wimbledon Park


My child is well-taught at Wimbledon Park


Staff at the school expect my child to work hard and do their best


My child receives appropriate homework for their age


Overwhelming teaching is perceived to be very strong and staff expect children to work hard. As a result, parents strongly agree that the children are making good progress. All indicators around teaching and learning show significant improvement over the past 18 months. Perceptions of the appropriateness of homework have

improved significantly, although this remains an area for minor development.

Strongly Agree 47%

Agree 49%

Disagree 2%

Strongly Disagree

1%

Don't know

2%

Strongly Agree 52%

Agree 46%

Disagree 1%

Don't know 2%

Strongly Agree 51%

Agree 46%

Disagree 1%

Don't know 3%

Strongly Agree 32%

Agree 61%

Disagree 5%

Strongly Disagree

1%

Don't know

2%

Pastoral Case

My child is well looked after at Wimbledon Park


The arrangements for my child to settle into school life were good


Staff encourage my child to become mature and independent


The school meets my child's particular needs


Pastoral care remains a huge strength at the school (even improving over the past 18 months), with virtually no disagreement on any indicator.

Strongly Agree 66%

Agree 32%

Don't know

1%

Strongly Agree 56%

Agree 41%

Disagree 2%

Don't know 1%

Strongly Agree 49%

Agree 47%

Disagree 1%

Don't know

4%

Strongly Agree 39%

Agree 54%

Disagree 2%

Don't know

5%

Leadership

The school is well led and managed


The school responds well to any concern I raise


I am kept well informed about relevant decisions for the future vision and direction of the school's development


The school takes account of the suggestions and concerns of parents


Leadership of the school is widely perceived as strong, improving in all aspects over the past 18 months.

Strongly Agree 66%

Agree 31%

Disagree 1%

Strongly Disagree

1%

Don't know 2%

Strongly Agree 34%

Agree 50%

Disagree 3%

Strongly Disagree

1%

Don't know 13%

Strongly Agree 32%

Agree 54%

Disagree 4%

Don't know 10%

Strongly Agree 31%

Agree 49%

Disagree 3%

Strongly Disagree

1% Don't know 17%

Parental Communication/Support

I receive helpful information about the topics and curriculum happening in class


I receive valuable information from the school about my child's progress


I am kept well-informed about events and activities at the school


Wimbledon Park provides useful support to parents for home learning

(new question)

The school communicates very effectively about the curriculum, events and activities, and its communication about progress has also improved very significantly (although with room for further improvement). Support for home learning is also perceived as very good.

Strongly Agree 57%

Agree 42%

Disagree 1%

Strongly Agree 31%

Agree 62%

Disagree 5%

Strongly Disagree

1%

Don't know 1%

Strongly Agree 64%

Agree 36%

Disagree 1%

Strongly Agree 49%

Agree 43%

Disagree 4%

Strongly Disagree

1%

Don't know

4%

Other

The school helps all parents to be involved in the school if they are able to


There is a good range of activities that my child finds interesting and enjoyable


Parents agree very strongly that they are able to be involved in the school. Activities on offer are very much seen as interesting and enjoyable

I would recommend Wimbledon Park to another parent


Parents overwhelmingly (and increasingly) would recommend the school to others.

Strongly Agree 65%

Agree 32%

Disagree 1%

Strongly Disagree

1%

Don't know 2%

Strongly Agree 50%

Agree 46%

Disagree 2%

Don't know 2%

Strongly Agree 77%

Agree 22%

Disagree 1%

Don't know 1%

Areas of Strength

The areas identified repeatedly by parents as strengths of the school are (with the number of mentions in brackets):

Teachers, staff team, quality of teaching (79)

Friendly family community/atmosphere within and around the school (47)

Pastoral care, inclusion, nurturing and encouragement of children, creating a safe and happy environment (45)

Academic focus and high standards (37)

Leadership (32)

Children – well-behaved, happy, confident (23)

Curriculum/curricular events and learning activities (22)

Extra-curricular activities and opportunities (18)

Parent involvement and PTFA (20)

Communication channels, information, responsiveness of staff, workshops and responding to concerns (28)

Office staff and welcome (18)

Drama/music/sports (14)

Facilities and resources (11)

Early years (9)

Kids Club (7)

Analysed on WordItOut. Word frequency less than 5 and irrelevant words removed. Word size is proportional to the number of times mentioned.

Parents’ Comments 2014 “Dedicated, knowledgeable, kind and caring teachers and staff, and wonderful learning opportunities for the children, such as field trips, science/math week and drama presentations.” “Despite being a large primary school, it manages to create the feel of a much smaller one, with a great community. I've been particularly impressed with the evening workshops for parents, and by how professional and knowledgeable the teachers have been at these.” “Apart from great leadership and growing academic success, the school does everything it can, in my opinion, to ensure the children are happy. My son is the happiest and most balanced during the school week. He loves coming to school and spending time with his classmates.” “I love the school and would not want my children anywhere else. It is a wonderful community school with great teaching and friendly staff.” “Overall balance of education is fantastic, the facilities are very good and my child feels very happy in the school environment.” “Strong emphasis on learning even at Nursery and Reception level and a strong moral code with runs through the ethos of the school. It’s a school that wants to, and will do better.” “There is a clear process of improvement and all the teachers are engaged with it and motivated. They want the school to be the best it can be and it is obvious from the staff focus and the teaching practices.” “Very well-led school with exceptionally engaged and enthusiastic teachers and support staff. The school offers a broad range of extracurricular activities from young age and caters well for different abilities within the classroom.” “Excellent quality of teaching and leadership, great facilities and environment, including outdoor areas, and positive relationship between parents and teachers.” “Excellent, caring and fun teachers creating an environment that encourages hard work and rewards effort. “ “Fantastic community school where children are happy and enjoy going every day and with hard-working, caring teachers.” “Staff work incredibly hard to ensure that the children have an excellent day at school. There is good, solid teaching for things such as grammar in writing. My child is really clear about strategies for answering reading comprehension, how to put complex sentences in their work and strategies for written maths methods.” “The school has a friendly and positive atmosphere, and clear, effective and well organised teaching and learning. It is a place for our daughter to feel happy, safe and to have fun while learning.” “Good community school which has made the transition from a small school to a relatively large primary school very well. Children are well behaved. Staff are caring and well-liked by the children (not just the teachers but all staff).” “Great academic standards and great at transmitting academic material in the most innovative ways.” “Great school, great teachers, lovely environment and lovely children.” “Only to say what a brilliant school this is that me and my family feel honoured that our little girl goes to school at Wimbledon Park Primary and her teachers are doing an amazing job.”

Areas for Development Although almost all parents are very positive about the school, and highlight many more strengths than areas for development, there are some areas for development that parents have highlighted. It is worth noting that positive feedback and strengths very largely outnumber the points raised for development, and that no single issue for development was raised by more than 5% of the survey respondents. These have been reviewed and analysed for themes of issues raised by more than four times. These themes and the actions to be taken are detailed below, based on review and discussion at senior leadership team and staff meetings:

Theme (number of mentions in brackets) Issues raised Comment/Actions Email (11) Too many emails.

Could they be consolidated?

Too many channels (email, parentpay, cypad).

Parents’ feedback is overall that the quality of communication has improved over past 18 months.

News and information will be better published on the new website – parents can “select” the information they choose to receive.

Stretch for more able children (9)

Push highest attaining children to achieve more

Can there be more extension activities?

Can support staff be not only directed to children needing support?

School assessment results (at the above expected levels 5 and 6 by the end of primary school) indicate that there is already a high level of academic push and stretch.

Although academic achievement is already high and increasing annually, the school aims to keep improving these standards.

The main focus for this improvement will be through continually improving the teaching and learning in class.

Parent teacher progress feedback (9)

Not enough consultation time with teachers during the year – more meetings, longer meetings.

Feedback from teachers clearer on progress, targets and next steps.

All our teachers offer ongoing dialogue and flexibility to meet and review individual children/issues outside of the parent consultation evenings

Feedback at parent teacher consultations needs to be very clear to parents about achievement and next steps.

There are no plans to add more parent-teacher meetings or lengthen the time of the existing meetings

Congestion (7) Playground congestion in morning and afternoon (outside studio hall).

No space for Y2 to get through.

Some additional markings and organisation will be implemented (in warmer/dryer weather).

Reminders will also be given to parents (e.g. to allow corridor for Y2 children).

Sport/PE (7) More sport/PE in school. This has been an area that has developed significantly over the past 2 years.

The school intends to continue to develop high quality sport and PE provision, increasing the opportunities for all children in school.

Homework (7) More homework.

Less homework!

Not at weekend.

Overall, parent perceptions about homework have very much improved over the past 18 months (since the last survey).

Homework set on Wednesday and collected in on Monday allows some families to complete on weekdays and others at weekends depending on preference.

Homework effectiveness is monitored closely by the senior leadership team, although there are no plans to increase the amount currently.

Theme (number of mentions in brackets) Issues raised Comment/Actions Maintaining school culture (6)

Concerns that school culture and ethos might be lost as the school continues to get bigger.

Feedback from the survey indicates that pastoral care and community feel is stronger now that at the start of expansion.

This has been (and continues to be) an explicit aim of the senior leadership team and governing body.

Support for working parents (5)

Workshops later.

Access to events/opportunities not just during school day.

The leadership team believe that there is a reasonable balance between events times scheduling for parents and home life considerations for teachers.

We will endeavour to give better advance notice and not change dates to facilitate forward planning for parents.

This will be kept under review but there are no plans to change.

School meals (4) Improve quality. School meal take up is about 60% across the school.

We have a new cook starting later in Spring term with the aim of improving school meal quality and take up.

The will be also be a school food governors working party established this term.

Extra-curricular clubs (4)

More clubs.

More coverage of interest areas.

More free clubs.

The positive feedback on activities and clubs very much outweighs the developmental feedback.

The number of non-charging clubs/activities (e.g. lunchtime sport, music) has increased significantly in the past 18 months.

This will be kept under review but there are no plans to change.

Secondary transfer (4) Better advice about choices for secondary school.

Specific preparation for 11+ and selective school tests.

Parent information events and support for secondary school decisions have increased over the past 12 months (e.g. widening invitation to Y4 parents, inviting secondary schools to present to parents, new school opening plans event)

Verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning Y6 lunchtime club run this year

General curriculum time cannot be allocated to selective school test preparation since this would cater for only a minority of children

This will be kept under review but with no plans for significant changes.

There were a number of other points raised by individual parents, both generally about the school as well as about individual class/children situations. All of these points have been reviewed by the school’s leadership team.

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