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Centre development plan 2012-13 1
Pound Park Nursery School and Early Years Centre
Centre Development Plan
3 Year Strategic Plan
2010- 2013
and Short Term
Development Plan
2012-13
Centre development plan 2012-13 2
PURPOSE OF THE CENTRE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
♦ To help us achieve our vision
♦ To enable the school to improve the attainment and
achievement of the Children at Pound Park Nursery.
♦ This plan shows a set of achievable targets for the
growth of our School and Children’s Centre and
improvements related to our Self evaluation processes.
♦ To draw together all aspects of budget and priorities
setting and decision making.
♦ To demonstrate the ability to plan, evaluate and obtain
value for money within the priorities set out.
♦ To ensure our centre is working towards the priorities
set out in Every Child Matters.
♦ To ensure we are implementing the New revised Early
Years Foundation Stage.
THE PLAN IS INFLUENCED BY;-
♦ The review of last years plan.
♦ Priorities set with the whole staff and members of the
governing body.
♦ Parents input through questionnaires and suggestions.
♦ Discussion with the children.
♦ Centre self evaluation
♦ Priorities within the education plan for Greenwich.
♦ Evidence from observations, record keeping and tracking
throughout the centre.
♦ The Early Years Foundation Stage
♦ Appraisal and performance management.
♦ Review of enrichment activities offered at Pound Park.
Centre development plan 2012-13 3
TIMETABLE TO PRODUCE AND IMPLEMENT
CENTRE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
June 2012 Whole Centre review of last years plan.
July/August
2012
Seek parents views on Centre via questionnaire
Look at exit tracking of groups of children and look for main
priorities.
Look at results from classroom monitoring and if any priorities
arise from that.
SEF relooked at by SLT
Sept 2012 With group of governors and staff set new plan based on the
information received from above.
Sept 2012 Monitoring targets given to staff and governors
OCT 2011 Performance management cycle begins for all staff
TERMLY Plan reviewed at Governors meetings and staff meetings.
June 2013 Review action plan with staff and governors
Centre development plan 2012-13 4
Three Year Strategic Plan for
Pound Park Nursery and Early Years Centre
2010-2013
Areas of development Areas of Every Child
Matters
To maintain our Outstanding category with Ofsted
Within the changes that are being imposed upon us-
with the one point of entry and formula funding. We
need to maintain an excellent rich varied curriculum
bearing in mind that within our 3 and 4 year old rooms
the children will mainly only have 3 terms with us
instead of 5. There is potential for the gap to widen
between the children who are coming from our up to
three section and having additional hours and the
children entering the term after they are three and
only having 15 hours and one year. This means that we
should really target vulnerable children to take up our
2 year old places so they have the longest time in
nursery. We shall need to keep 3 of our places
exclusively for children who are referred via the free
two year old place scheme.
Enjoy and achieve.
Sept 2012 Ofsted again
inspected Pound Park and
we again achieved
Outstanding with good for
the Children’s Centre.
Nov 2012
We have continued to take
on vulnerable two year olds
at Pound Park and at
Cardwell.
To rebuild relationships with restructured reorganisations within
the local authority. For example – Health visitors, Under 5
prevention team
Make a positive contribution
Named Health visitor for
Children’s Centres.
Federated with Cardwell and we
have a named Early Years family
support worker.
By Sept 2012 have Health
visitors working in both Centres
with clinics being run in both
places.
Within the community
To become better known and work wider within the community.
To participate in local events and to advertise ourselves when
doing so.
To do this we need to find out about local events and plan a
presence there.
To make links with other schools in different areas- Hassocks
/Uganda
Make a positive contribution
Attended many local events this
year alone. Army day, local
church fayre.
Building
Our building needs work. We need a new roof and or a new
building. To liaise with the Local Authority over the plans for the
Stay safe
Enjoy and achieve.
Centre development plan 2012-13 5
building.
To have more space to do the activities we want to run.
Roof done
No c
To continue all staff are kept aware of Child Protection/Health
and Safety issues by undertaking and updating training.
Stay safe
Child protection training for all
staff Inset 2012.
Designated person training done
for head and DHT
Maintain healthy eating within the centre. To continue to build
on forest school success. Family worker to continue to work on
healthy eating with families.
To continue to encourage families to walk to school and maintain
our travel plan. To encourage children to bring their bikes to
school – to install bike racks for children.
Being healthy
Have participated in Healthy
Greenwich Project. Food audit.
See action plan.
Transition
To continue to develop the idea of children working throughout
the whole centre at their own level. To ensure that children can
have experiences which suit their developmental needs. The
older 2s and threes coming over regularly to the main school if
they want.
To allow more movement between the different areas of the
school bearing in mind the restrictments within the school-
fences , gates etc.
Enjoy and achieve
This has been developed
throughout 2011-12 with
children regularly accessing the
areas of the centre that suits
their stage of development.
Curriculum
To continue to monitor the progress of all children in different
areas of the curriculum and to respond if the results begin to
dip in any areas.
To ensure that the gains we have made in boys writing and linking
sounds and letters are maintained.
Enjoy and achieve
Regular tracking has kept us in
tune with various groups of
children and their performance
in all areas.
To be fully evaluating the services on offer to the families of
Charlton and to be confident that the impact of the activites
and services on offer are being measured regularly.
Making a positive contribution
Now in Children’s Centre Action
Plan.
Parents
To continue to involve parents in the life of the school. In forest
school activities- stay and plays for parents.
To keep them up to date with what they can do at home to help
their children.
To ensure that newsletters and information is given. To keep up
the high quality of interaction that we have at the moment.
Making a positive contribution.
Most parents (89%) feel they
know enough about their
children’s learning. Further
planning in 2012-13 to help them
know more about what their
children are learning at nursery.
Throughout the plan references are made to the Every Child Matters
outcome. They are:-
♦ Enjoy and Achieve (EA)
♦ Stay safe (SS)
♦ Be healthy (BH0
♦ Make a positive contribution (MPC)
♦ Achieve economic well being ACW)
Centre development plan 2012-13 6
The plan also refers to, where appropriate, the principles of the Early
Years Foundation Stage-
• A unique Child (UC)
• An enabling environment (EE)
• Developing Positive Relationships (DPR)
• Learning and Developing (LD)
Vision Statement
Pound Park aims to provide our children
with the best start in life. Working
alongside other agencies we support
children by engaging their parents,
carers, extended families and the wider
community.
Through play, in a safe caring
environment, all our children are
encouraged to become creative,
confident, independent, lifelong learners.
Centre development plan 2012-13 7
These priorities have appeared at other times in our Centre Development Plan. This is a maintenance Plan to make sure we
continue to offer the best for the children and families attending the centre Staying safe Actions When
Regular Child Protection training for all the
staff to ensure that everyone is up to date
with current legislation.
Child protection training for all staff in 2012 Inset day.
Sheena to organise this
2012
Regular Health and safety Check with
Governors and Health and Safety Officers
Every term the Health and safety governor, Health and
Safety officers and Union reps will go all round the school
and check out Hand S issues. A report is written up and
George makes sure actions are carried out.
Every term
Equipment check regularly. Yearly by Gymnasium and regularly by George. Daily George goes through the premises
and checks Hand S matters.
Be Healthy
To continue with programme of physical
development.
Tyrone to continue to come in weekly offering various
sporting activities to all the children. Also ask Sports coach
if he could be available for our annual sports day for
children and parents.
Children to continue to have access to a varied outdoor
curriculum and forest school experience.
Every week one AM and one PM
Sports day in the summer term. Date
to be arranged.
To maintain Healthy Snacks To inform all parents of what we do and the benefits of
children eating healthily.
To make sure we put out envelopes on a more regular basis.
Letter to go out Jan 2010.
Regular reminders every term with
envelopes.
To continue to grow our own vegetables and
fruit.
Get dads involved in this. Get them to dig up garden and
plant seeds with their children.
First sowing in March 2010 then a later
crop in the year.
To continue to offer forest school
experience or some of our children.
To encourage more parents to become involved to offer
experience to more children.
Feb 2010
Enjoy and Achieve
Maintain the broad balanced curriculum to
ensure that children continue to make
progress in all areas.
Theatrebugs
Sports coaching
Make believe arts
Capture Arts
Throughout the year
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To continue to build on letters and sounds DHT to ensure that listening activities are going on
throughout the school. Throughout the year making sure we
are meeting the needs of the children.
Monitored every term by SLT.
Make a positive contribution and achieve
economic wellbeing.
To ensure that we continue with our programme of home
visiting and transitions, including home – nursery, nursery –
school, Up to Threes – main school and family room – main
school.
At the beginning and end of every term
To continue with regular language groups to
help children with SALT difficulties.
To continue to target vulnerable two year
olds. With the cutting down of additional
hours within the 3/4 year old sector we
need to make sure that we are taking in
vulnerable 2 year olds who will benefit from
additional hours.
To maintain at least 3 places for vulnerable 2 year old
within the 2/3 year old room.
Ongoing programme of training for staff in
relevant areas.
Food hygiene
Paediatric First Aid
Safeguarding
As and when required.
Maintaining good practice on profile books-
to continue to keep them high profile and
share with parents.
Stay and Play day for parents/carers
Regular monitoring by SLT of profile books.
Autumn 2011
.Raise achievement in calculating especially for
boys
To keep an eye through tracking and planning that boys are
being given many mathematical activities.
ECAT
To ensure that we keep working with the ethos
of ECAT.
Investigating in cameras to allow children to
express themselves through taking
photographs.
ECAT twilight sessions to keep staff abreast of new
developments.
Malinda to investigate buying suitable cameras for children
to use around the school.
Autumn 2012.
To continue with enrichment activities – music,
sport, drama and dance as review showed how
Activities to continue.Dance to start this term Autumn 2012
Centre development plan 2012-13 9
much children benefit from these activities.
Review of main priorities from 2011-12
Priority What we said we would do Success criteria Have we
met it
What next 2012-13
To ensure that the
progress we have made in
Letters and Sounds is
maintained this year.
(FROM EXIT TRACKING
RESULTS
To continue with the
programme of activities that
supports language
development in all children-
• Theatrebugs
• Language groups
• Music sessions
• Story times
• Phonic sessions
• SALT input
Progress is maintained
and improved upon.
See
tracking
results
• Family Room children have access
to Theatrebugs
• ECAT strategies to be
implemented
• Visit to model classroom
• Twilight-story boxes/bags
• ECAT display in entrance-Sept
• EAL focus/twilight
.Raise achievement in
calculating especially for
boys
(FROM EXIT TRACKING
RESULTS)
Staff meeting : Look at
statements in EYFS and
discuss stages of
development and how we are
to observe this and record
it.
Nominate a person at group
times to observe calculating
activities.
Lunch times stories and
laying the tables will provide
a good opportunity to do
calculating activities.
More children in line and
above in tracking results
by the end of 2012.
See
tracking
results
• Continue to take observations of
calculating activities—story times
• Continue to use vocabulary
related to calculating (more, less,
counting forwards/backwards,
taking away)
Centre development plan 2012-13 10
Priority What we said we would do Success criteria Have we
met it
What next 2012-13
Build on listening project
started last year.
(From review of CDP)
Work with children on using
the cameras. Make choosing
board for shed
Children to continue to be
involved in making decisions
within the nursery.
Children using cameras.
Choosing boards being
used regularly
Ongoing • Children to take pictures of
favourite things in nursery, help
print them, talk about the
pictures, on whiteboard to look
at, put in special books. Make
display of pictures in hallway
(children’s voice).
• Choosing board for shed re-
instated- light in shed
please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To make sure that the
learning environment is
appropriate for all
children and is
communication friendly.
(FROM EXIT TRACKING
RESULTS AND EACT
AUDIT)
Inset: Elizabeth Jarman
training
Carry out an audit of the
learning environment (colour,
light, sound, textures etc).
Follow up staff meeting in
Spring Term 2012
Inset done
Learning environment
caters to needs of all
children.
Areas audited.
Long term- progress
sustained in speaking and
listening.
Achieved • Follow up training with Elizabeth
Jarman trainer in staff meeting-
review our nursery environment
• Focus on giving children more say
in what we plan.
To continue to further
develop the transition of
new children to main
school in light of so many
children starting in Sept.
(Influenced by change in
local and government
policies)
Reinstate Open day after
inset days in September
2012 (am/pm)
Drop in days in Summer term
4 weeks only, not in last 2
weeks of term.
Programme of transition
activities for children
moving from the Up to
Three Centre.
More parents attend drop
in sessions.
Many parents attend open
day.
Up to Three children and
family room children
move over smoothly to
main school.
Achieved • Make sure parents starting mid-
year from UTTs get transition
meetings and information about
starting school.
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Priority What we said we would do Success criteria Have we
met it
What next 2012-13
To continue to meet the
needs of children with
speech and language
difficulties by investing in
extra SALT time.
(FROM ENTRY AND
EXIT TRACKING
RESULTS)
Chloe Williams is new SALT
working in nursery.
Keep language groups going
with school staff.
Language groups running.
Children identified at an
early stage.
Children’s targets set and
achieved.
Achieved • Gemma Mander and Sarah Ryan to
continue to work at Pound Park
next year.
• SALT top-up to continue next
year from cluster.
To encourage the children
to access the woodland
area appropriately.
(STAFF OBSERVATION)
Staff meeting: to discuss
forest school principles, also
what not to do, role
modelling play in woodlands
etc.
Woodlands being used
constructively and
appropriately.
Partially
met
• Shed to be added to woodlands
for resources.
• Make wig-wam with children in
woodlands.
• Add/extend resources for mud
kitchen.
• Link to story-telling (add pictures
of familiar stories, children to
tell own stories-circle of stumps
to sit on)
To ensure a smooth
transition from the old
system of 15 hours to the
new system,
To implement new times
of day and routines.
(STAFF OBSERVATION)
Rotas and timetables posted
in all rooms.
All staff to be briefed on
new arrangements.
All staff to support children
during first week or so as we
establish new routines.
Smooth transition to new
way of working.
Yes • Continue with this system for
next year as feedback has been
positive both from staff parents
and children.
To share our rationale
about the purpose of
trips and outings with
parents.
(Parent feedback last
Review trip policy
Be clear with parents about
purpose of trips and outings.
All children have a trip
that is related to their
interests /needs or
linked in with themes
followed in school.
• Worked much better this year.
All children had a series of trips
and all children offered an end of
term trip to the seaside.
Centre development plan 2012-13 12
Priority What we said we would do Success criteria Have we
met it
What next 2012-13
term)
Phase 3 of the garden
development
Water pump installed by
Bartholemew’s and pathway
redone
Water pump installed
No • We have decided against the
pump as too expensive. But we are
having a water feature in the
same area.
• Mixing trays, tables, covered
area.
• New water tray ordered—summer
12.
• Drains are clogged, need to be
looked at.
To ensure that all staff
are confident in
behaviour management
techniques and are
consistent in their
approach.
(FROM Staff Appraisal)
Revisiting policy and
strategies.
Staff meeting to discuss
strategies.
Behaviour Change: EP staff
meeting and Jan inset on
attached theory.
Staff have greater
understanding of
children’s challenging
behaviour and having
more confidence in
dealing with any difficult
behaviour.
Partially
met
• Revisit conflict resolution
training.
• Continue CAMHS consultations
about individual children/parents
• EAL children?
To maintain staff
knowledge in key areas.
(FROM Staff Appraisal)
Child Protection Training
Epi pen training
PEG training
Food Hygiene
All staff up to date on
latest training.
Achieved • Keep up training as needs arise.
To have an area where
children can change into
outdoor clothes during
wet weather.
(OBSERVATION)
Investigate cost of awning
outside orange/red room
which would be covered area
Children able to access
wet play things in
sheltered area
ongoing
Centre development plan 2012-13 13
School development priorities 2012-13 MAIN SCHOOL
ENJOY AND ACHIEVE
Priority Actions to be taken Success criteria Timescale Cost Persons
responsible Monitoring
Links
with
areas of
ECM
EYFS
To ensure all staff are
aware and confident of
using the New EYFS
framework
As new EYFS is being
rolled out in Sept 2012
Staff meeting in Sept 2012 to
pass on changes re the EYFS
Tracking changed to reflect
new statements. Inset on
observations and quality of
observations.
Monitoring will be done under
new framework.
Staff meetings to look closely
at Prime areas and specific
areas.
All members of staff
will be aware of the
changes in the EYFS.
They will be confident
in knowing where their
children are on entry
and on exit using new
tracking sheets.
Observations will be
relative and
informative.
Sept 2012
Sept 2012
Jan 2013
Meeting
time
HT
DHT
Through
SLT
monitoring
days and
curriculum
governor
monitoring
To ensure that parents
have enough information
about what their
children are learning.
From parent
satisfaction survey
12% of parents didn’t
feel that they had
enough information
Continue with “What to do at
home sheets” to accompany
focussed work.
Have some parents meetings
about “what your child will
learn at school” to discuss
EYFS. Question and answer
session.
In questionnaire
100% of parents will
feel that they had
enough information
about what their child
was learning.
Termly –
“what to
do at
home”
linked to
work in
nursery.
Meeting in
Meeting
time.
Creche
costs
£100
Karen Dunn
to produce
sheets
Sheena
Gilby and
Lynn Hand
to lead
meetings on
Governors PR
UC
Centre development plan 2012-13 14
MAIN SCHOOL
ENJOY AND ACHIEVE
Priority Actions to be taken Success criteria Timescale Cost Persons
responsible Monitoring
Links
with
areas of
ECM
EYFS
about what their child
was learning.
Oct 2012 EYFS
To ensure that
practitioners are
supporting the children
outside as they do
indoors.
(from monitoring)
INSET on good outdoor
practice for all staff.
Children will be
supported outdoors as
they are indoors.
Opportunities for
learning will be
supported by the staff
outdoors.
Inset In
Autumn
term
Meeting
time DHT SLT LD
To ensure that the
profile books are
accurately reflecting
the children’s work.
(Monitoring)
Training on how to develop
special books
To use the profile books when
doing feedback to parents.
Profile books will be a
true reflection of the
childs learning journey
Autumn Meeting
time DHT SLT LD
To do some training on
behaviour management
especially with new
staff. To ensure that all
staff are following the
agreed procedures.
Inset day/session on
behaviour management.
All staff will be
following the same
procedure with
children.
Spring
2013
£300 for
trainer HT SLT UC
To develop Numicon in
school. Numicon is a
maths programme which
enables children to
develop a firm
understanding of
Staff training on numicon
Invest in numicon materials
Make the classrooms “numicon
rich” with posters and pictures
Staff will be familiar
with the materials .
The children will
become familiar with
the materials and be
using them to help
Inset
Sept 2012
Being
used by
mid
Autumn
£200 Maths
coordinator DHT LD
Centre development plan 2012-13 15
MAIN SCHOOL
ENJOY AND ACHIEVE
Priority Actions to be taken Success criteria Timescale Cost Persons
responsible Monitoring
Links
with
areas of
ECM
EYFS
numbers. It is a tool
which helps children
develop understanding
of numbers(Cluster
initiative)
their understanding of
numbers
term 2012
To identify and monitor
the children most likely
to fall behind (from on
entry tracking). To
ensure that we have a
robust plan to help them
develop.
On entry tracking to be done
by half term for all children
who have started in Sept.
Children to be identified as
most at risk of falling behind.
The children in the
lowest 20% will have
made good progress
Identify
Oct 2012-
09-30
Monitorin
g and
plans in
place to
help these
children
Nov 2012.
-
DHT to
monitor
But all key
persons to
identify
the
children.
HT and
Governors
LD
UC
MAIN SCHOOL
Premises
Priority Actions to be taken Success criteria Timescale Cost Persons
responsible Monitoring
Links
with
areas of
ECM
EYFS
To investigate the cost
of a covered area
Costs of having a covered area
to be researched
The costs will be
known and the project
Before
summer £5000 DHT
Premises
committee E&A
Centre development plan 2012-13 16
MAIN SCHOOL
Premises
Priority Actions to be taken Success criteria Timescale Cost Persons
responsible Monitoring
Links
with
areas of
ECM
EYFS
outside orange/blue
room.
will be considered by
premises committee
2013
Staying safe
Priority Actions to be taken Success criteria Timescale Cost Persons
responsible Monitoring
Links
with
areas of
ECM
EYFS
Safeguarding
To have regular staff
sessions where families
of concern are
discussed
Late mornings will happen
every half term. Staff will
bring along concerns to be
discussed and action taken.
Information will be
shared and there will
be earlier intervention
in families we have
concern over.
Half
termly
Meeting
time HT
Gov with
resp for
safeguardin
g
Attendance
To make sure that any
problems are referred
quicker.
Admin staff to give half
termly reports on absence.
DHT to follow up any children
whose attendance is below
85%
Absence will be
monitored better
Autumn
term DHT Governors
Supervision to be
carried out within the
centre for all staff
working with families.
Inset day on new EYFS and
session on supervision for all
staff.
Training of supervisors
Supervision Inset for
all staff done.
Supervisor training
done
Sept 2012
Sept/
October
Spring
£2000 HT COG All areas
PR
UC
Centre development plan 2012-13 17
Staying safe
Priority Actions to be taken Success criteria Timescale Cost Persons
responsible Monitoring
Links
with
areas of
ECM
EYFS
(requirements of new
EYFS)
Programme of supervision to
be drawn up.
Work with Karen Fishwick
from Catherine Rushforth
Associates on this.
Start supervision with
all staff
term 2012
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Priority Actions to be taken Success criteria Time
scale Cost
Persons
responsible Monitoring
Links
with
other
areas
of
EYFS
To lessen the load of
assessment and record
keeping on the staff. Too
much time was spent last
year on keeping records and
writing reports especially at
the end of term.
SLT to look at other
methods of record keeping
which would be less
burdensome.
Look at the possibility of
parent feedback being done
throughout the year and not
a huge report at the end.
Staff will work
with the children
more and have less
time away from
the children due
to record keeping.
Starting
autumn
term but
summer
term to be
less
dominated
by record
keeping
HT
DHT to look at
other settings
to see what
they do for
final reports.
SENCO
Governors
Leadership team to have Supervision to be organised Senior staff will Spring £500 HT to organise COG
Centre development plan 2012-13 18
supervision (See above) through Catherine Rushforth
Associates
receive regular
supervision
term 2013.
To keep Governors abreast
of Federation Issues
To make sure that we report
at Governor meetings about
what’s happening at Cardwell
Governors aware
of what’s
happening at
Cardwell and
progress of
federation.
Ongoing -- HT to report to
governors COG
Goldsmiths Students are
going to be based here next
year. We are working with
the other nursery schools
and Goldsmiths to give them
a unique experience.
See action plan Students will do
well and have a
good grounding in
Early Years
education.
Starting
Sept 2012
£2500 per
school
HT and DHT
with input from
staff as
necessary
COG
To consolidate monitoring
role of Governors
In Autumn term have
meeting with Governors to
decide areas of
responsibility.
Monitoring will be
done on a regular
basis in all areas
of the action plan.
Autumn
2012 Meeting time HT/DHT COG
To update large books in
hallway to show parents
different areas of the
curriculum- especially prime
areas.
Books to be done on PSED
Communication and language
and Physical development Books will be made
and be on show
for parents
By summer
2013
Physical
development –
SM
PSED- MO
CL- LH
Curriculum
committee
Books will be
brought to
the last
meeting of
the year.
Centre development plan 2012-13 19
Up to Threes
Priority Actions to be taken Success criteria Timescale Cost Persons
responsible Monitoring
Links
with
areas of
ECM
EYFS
To work within the new
EYFS.
Training on new EYFS looking
at the main changes in the
document.
To develop a new planning
format in line with the new
EYFS
Staff will fully
understand changes in
the new EYFS.
Planning sheet up to
date and reflecting
new EYFS
Sept 2012
Sept
2012.
Meeting
time-
training
day at
beginning
of term
JC Up to
Three Gov
To change the focus in
Sky and Sunshine rooms
– to have different
areas in different
rooms and allow children
more freeflow within
the Up to Three Unit.
Staff meeting with all staff to
discuss changes .
Classrooms to be reorganised
to have a wider selection of
activities throughout the
centre.
Children will be
accessing all areas in
the Up to Threes.
They will have a better
choice of activities.
Sept 2012 Meeting
time
JC
AM
Up to
Three Gov
HOC
DHOC
To maintain our
Outsanding Grading with
Ofsted
Regular monitoring along the
lines of the school monitoring.
We shall receive an
Outstanding grading.
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Appendix A
Results of parent’s questionnaire 2012.
50 parents completed the questionnaires
80% graded us as outstanding 16% as good and 4% as satisfactory.
100% of parents said their children were happy at school.
100% of parents felt their children had made good progress.
100% of parents felt that the settling in process was adequate
Of the other questions there was 100% satisfaction in all but how much information
parents were receiving about their child’s learning. 12% felt they didn’t have enough
information about what their child was learning.
64% of parents had attended the family room before coming to Pound Park school.
The majority of comments were overwhelmingly positive. I have copied some of them
below. Also copied some of the ideas to do things better.
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What we do well- parents comments
Extremely welcoming . A place that is hard to leave
I like the snack time. They are encouraged by doing it themselves and being with other
children. The school is warm and welcoming.
I am very happy about the school trip in July. My daughter was very excited and happy
about it.
Caring a lot about the children and allowing parents to be part of it.
Settling in is excellent- especially working with parents to ease the process for the
child. The way teachers treat every child as an individual and tailor activities and
approaches to each one according to their needs.
School to home communication is outstanding.
Creates a caring, stimulating fun environment enabling children to develop their own
unique strengths.
Offers opportunities for parents to get involved.
Trips
Safe learning environment for all children.
Making the whole family feel welcome.
Pound Park seems to run like a well oiled machine. Teachers are genuinely interested in
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my child, his personality and progress.
Good communication between staff and parents.
I really appreciated the phone calls to say he was ok after leaving him crying at the
nursery.
Encourages confidence and learning.
Caters well for children with special needs.
Friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
What could we do better- parents comments
To remind all children to say polite words like please and thank you at all occasions.
Improve communication between adult and child.
7.30 start time for the breakfast club.
Celebrate a few more cultural /religious festivals
Information about what they are learning.
Know what lunch menus are so other meals can be planned for.
Give parents specific ways to help their children.
Registering and allocating places and mornings and afternoons felt a bit unclear.
Offering more full days.