Head’s Welcome and Comments Since Christmas, 8 students have joined us. I hope you have settled in and are enjoying Court Fields. Below you will see the results of our Year 11 parent questionnaire which captures parent perception of how our school is doing. Changes that we have made are clearly making a very positive difference. We are currently reviewing a number of our policies and practices in order to secure over 90% satisfaction for parents such as our behaviour policy and strategies for Teaching and Learning. Our recent Parent Forum indicated that they would like to see a change to our half termly Newsletter which they felt to be too irregular and too big in its content. Parents asked that the Newsletter is more frequent (every 2-3 weeks) and takes the form of a bulletin paying particular attention to ‘dates for the diary’. We intend to email this new bulletin out to all parents as well as have it posted on our website. Do let me know if you have a view. We intend to start this after half term. Thank you to all parents and students for their time at Academic Monitoring. I will collate all the feedback that we have gathered which will support us in continuing to improve our school to provide your children with an outstanding education. Ms Rachael Bennett Headteacher Question % increase 2014 to 2015 Current: 2015 % Agree My child is happy at this school 3% 98% My child feels safe at this school 3% 98% My child makes good progress at this school 2% 90% My child is well looked after at this school 6% 96% My child is taught well at this school 2% 92% My child receives appropriate homework for their age 14% 92% The school ensures the pupils are well behaved 24% 85% The school deals effectively with bullying 26% 87% The school is well led and managed 24% 92% The school responds well to any concern I raise 14% 87% I receive valuable information from the school about my child's progress 14% 90% I would recommend this school to another parent 36% 94% Court Fields School Achieve | Belong | Participate February 2015
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Head’s Welcome and Comments Since Christmas, 8 students have joined us. I hope you have settled in and are enjoying Court
Fields.
Below you will see the results of our Year 11 parent questionnaire which captures parent
perception of how our school is doing. Changes that we have made are clearly making a very
positive difference. We are currently reviewing a number of our policies and practices in order
to secure over 90% satisfaction for parents such as our behaviour policy and strategies for
Teaching and Learning.
Our recent Parent Forum indicated that they would like to see a change to our half termly
Newsletter which they felt to be too irregular and too big in its content. Parents asked that the
Newsletter is more frequent (every 2-3 weeks) and takes the form of a bulletin paying particular
attention to ‘dates for the diary’. We intend to email this new bulletin out to all parents as well
as have it posted on our website. Do let me know if you have a view. We intend to start this
after half term.
Thank you to all parents and students for their time at Academic Monitoring. I will collate all
the feedback that we have gathered which will support us in continuing to improve our school to
provide your children with an outstanding education.
Ms Rachael Bennett
Headteacher
Question % increase
2014 to 2015
Current: 2015
% Agree
My child is happy at this school 3% 98%
My child feels safe at this school 3% 98%
My child makes good progress at this school 2% 90%
My child is well looked after at this school 6% 96%
My child is taught well at this school 2% 92%
My child receives appropriate homework for their age 14% 92%
The school ensures the pupils are well behaved 24% 85%
The school deals effectively with bullying 26% 87%
The school is well led and managed 24% 92%
The school responds well to any concern I raise 14% 87%
I receive valuable information from the school about
my child's progress
14% 90%
I would recommend this school to another parent 36% 94%
Court Fields School
Achieve | Belong | Participate February 2015
Friends of Court Fields School
The Friends of Court Fields are moving forward with the proposed improvements to the school
site. The school have been working with groups of students who have discussed ideas and put
together an initial layout of the site. The Friends are now taking this to the next level and are in
consultation with various bodies, including the Royal Horticultural Society, to make sure that we
make the best out of the space.
'Gardening is a great way to boost the development of young people. It teaches life skills, makes people healthier and happier and encourages them to produce their own home grown food. I'm really excited to be working with Court Fields School and we have some great projects to work on, including the development of a new garden area and the house veg beds.'
Merryn Preece, South West Regional Advisor—Schools, Royal Horticultural Society
With this in mind we are looking at raising funds for this exciting new project.
Look out for details at school and in the local press.
As part of the school’s ongoing project to improve the look and use of the school site raised flower
beds have been made and will be looked after and maintained by the
students. Each raised bed will represent a school House and prizes will be
awarded during the year for effort, initiative, commitment etc.
The Friends are asking for donations of small tools which will help greatly.
If you have any unwanted gardening tools or would like to buy new and
donate them to the school, it would be greatly appreciated.
If you have any questions regarding any of the above or you would like to help with any of our
ongoing projects please call the school on 01823 664201.
Mrs Stephanie Colman
Chair of the Friends of Court Fields
Comic Relief is on Friday 13th March. As that is an In-Service Training day
for us, we will have a non-uniform day on Thursday 12th March and students
should bring in £1 for the privilege of not having to wear uniform. Other
activities such as cake sales take place so students should ensure they bring in
enough money to take part if they wish.
The Friends are holding a family Bingo Night on
Thursday February 26th in the School Hall.
7 - 9 pm
We have great prizes to win as well as a raffle, which includes a £50 Waitrose
voucher up for grabs!! Tea and coffee will be on sale. It looks to be a fun filled
night, so grab a friend, relative or neighbour and come along and support your