Working Together
Home/school contract
Parents are asked to read and sign our home/school contract prior to their child starting school.
Pupil voice
Each class has a pupil representative on our School Council and Eco team. They meet half-termly to discuss all aspects of school life e.g. playground equipment, snack food, animal care, recycling.
We encourage opinions, group decision making and action! Questionnaires are sometimes used to find out what children think about certain aspects of school life.
Parent Voice and Involvement
We actively encourage parents/carers to become more involved in their child’s education and parental views are sought and listened to in many ways.
Friends of Hawthorns – Our school charity
Friends of Hawthorns is a member’s organisation established to support the school and pupils with fundraising for equipment and activities.
For more information about the charity, click on the link below.
Friends of Hawthorns Charity (About menu tab)
Parent/carer questionnaires sent out with Annual Review.
Ofsted Parent View
Ofsted Parent View gives you the chance to tell Ofsted what you think of your child’s school. You can visit the link by clicking on the link below.
Home-school communication/ PLP meetings/Annual reviews/Post admission/CAF/Medical meetings/
Each class provides home/ school communication such as home/ school books, and class email.
During the year we hold PLP meetings, annual reviews, post admissions for new pupils and any other relevant meetings to support the needs of the children.
Parent Weekly Coffee Morning and Workshops
We have a family advocacy worker who runs weekly coffee mornings, usually on Tuesdays and advocacy surgeries, usually run on Wednesday mornings as well as workshops provided by external agencies. For more information about our family advocacy worker and dates and times of workshops, click on the link below.
Family Advocacy at Hawthorns (Support for Families menu tab)
We also provide opportunities for parents to come into school to take part in our 'Let's Get Cooking Club'. Where a family member can work with their child to cook a meal in school with our cookery teacher Mrs Whittaker. The same recipe and ingredients are then provided to allow the family to cook the same meal ay home. This is ran for 3 weeks every half term.
We also take part in the 'Cook 4 Life' programme led by the Children's Nutritional Team and Active Tameside. Families who take part in the course complete a weekly cooking session for three weeks with their child at home. Each family is provided with a set of ingredients, which is delivered to the school on the day of the course for the children to take home along with a recipe card and some nutritional information around a different subject each week. There will also be a step by step guide on how to follow the recipe sent to each family.
Fundraising events/special assemblies/sports days
We take part in school and National fundraising events including Macmillan Coffee morning and Christmas crafts sessions.
We also invite parents to come and watch their child take part in school shows and sports days.
Class and school news and pupil achievement.
Each class has a Twitter page. During the week classes will share 2/3 videos showing learning that has taken place in class.
Each week Mr Curtis shares his Headteachers blog news and once a term we share a school newsletter with families.
We also share 'WOW' moments which are key pieces of work and achievements with parents through the (EfL) Evidence for Learning parent app. For more information about Evidence for Learning parent app, visit the link below.
Evidence for Learning for Families Information (Info for Parents menu tab)
Parents on Governing Body
Vacancies advertised on the website. Different agencies are sometimes invited to talk to Governors about their role in school e.g.Family Liaison Officer, Data team.
