In July we completed a community survey and had an 83% completion rate. The data showed three key areas that we could improve.
1. Room for school to improve school management of communication with parents ie bigger focus on reporting bad behavior rather than good behavior and how they report student progress
2. Room for school to improve curriculum/learning in the school so that it is relevant to students builds on what students already know and do well and offers a variety of high-quality learning experiences
3. Students who have challenging home circumstance are not excluded from participating in learning opportunities.
Our action plan for next year is going to be around Communication with Parents (Rubric number 4 L2) .
15% of our families disagreed with the question 'When my child joined the school, I worked with school staff to plan ways to support my child to feel settled.' 60 % agree with this statement but there is room for improvement. Our goal is to get this to 80 - 85% by the end of 2018. ( We will re-complete the survey to compare the data in July 2018).
25% of our families disagreed with the question 'The school regularly contacts me to share my childs' 60 % agree with this statement. We also want to get this up to 80 - 85%.
After analyzing the data we decided that a focus on 'Staff responsibilities and providing an educationally powerful relationship between families and teacher. This would be key to reaching our goal of a 80-85% positive response in our next community survey.
Possible action plans to reach our goal
Create a system where parents are updated after their student joins PES (Could be a brief statement about how their first week went and any assessment data teachers have completed) - It is key not to make more work for teachers. But most teachers, when new students start will complete assessments to work out where the student is academically, this with a statement home will put us in good stead to building positive relationships with whanau. New entrants teachers are already communicating with parents when students first join the school.
Increasing blogger & seesaw Interaction- Next term we could possibly have a blogger day every week. I would monitor blog comments and keep a record to track parent interaction. Could host another 'blog sharing afternoon' with families or teaching families how to comment on blogs. We will try to build on our plan already within blog commenting and measure success and progress.
