Leading Parent Partnership Award

I am delighted to share with you that we have been awarded the Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA). We identified our work and relationships with families as an area for development two years ago and have used the LPPA framework to guide us on our journey. Thank you to everyone who responded to the questionnaire and to those who took part in the evaluation day. Your input was invaluable.

The framework is broken into the following areas:

• Transition: Support parents as their children transition through or between schools.
   
• Participation:Include all groups of parents in supporting their children's learning and developing their own learning.
   
• Communication: Take steps to ensure that the school is a welcoming, communicative and friendly place for parents.
   
• Guidance: Provide clear and accessible guidance to help parents support their children's learning and development.
   
• Induction: Provide clear guidance on the responsibilities of parents, school and pupils, and share this information with parents as a key part of the induction process.
   
• Home-school links: Produce parent-friendly policies to establish effective home–school links.

We have already started looking at what more we can do in all of these areas and what further developments we can make.

Mrs J Rigby
Headteacher