Partnership with Parents
At Great Malvern Primary, we are committed to working in close partnership with parents to ensure they are happy with their child's education and progress. We believe it is important that parents are involved in their child's education and we actively encourage parental involvement in the school, wherever possible. We communicate with parents through our weekly newsletters and via curriculum newsletters, so you know about activities and trips to support your children’s learning. Our regular Instagram and Facebook feeds are also a valuable source of information for parents and carers.
We work in partnership with parents to ensure that our pupils have every opportunity to enjoy, achieve and learn together. We promote positive partnerships with parents, founded on effective, honest and open communication, on mutual respect and the shared aspirations that each child reaches their potential whilst at the school.
We acknowledge that parents are as individual as their children and that their needs, hopes and priorities will vary over time and from one set of parents to another.
We hope that parents will want to be actively involved in their child’s school life, educationally and socially and that they will feel able to contact the school to discuss any worries, concerns or uncertainties that they might have. We encourage parents to actively participate in their child’s education by following up and extending the work carried out in school. We hope that school and home will work together to achieve consistent results across all areas of development by sharing each other’s skills and knowledge. We also hope that parents will want to let us know about significant events that happen outside of school which relate to their child.
Parental involvement with the school includes the following:
Parent/carer Conferences
These take place each Autumn and Spring and give parents the chance to discuss with the class teacher their child’s progress, attainment and review their next targets.
Parents/carer Workshops
Workshops and seminars for parents are arranged on a regular basis and may cover a wide range of issues such as reading, writing, number, behaviour, communication, etc.
Social Events and class activities
Parents/carers and families are regularly invited to visit classes throughout the year and for whole school events such as Christmas and Easter celebrations, Sports Day, class assembly, leavers’ assembly, celebration of learning afternoon, class Mass etc where their support and participation are much appreciated.
Website
This contains a variety of factual information about the school, prospectus, term dates etc as well as news from classes, special events and useful links. It is continuously being added to and updated, each half term. Each class has a class page on the website which contains curriculum information for that half term and suggestions for parents to support learning at home.
Parent Pay
We are using ParentPay because it’s simple, safe, convenient and your child no longer needs to carry cash into school.
Great Malvern Primary will soon operate a cash and cheque free system for school dinners, trips, activities, wraparound and breakfast club. You can make payments safely and securely online using a system called ParentPay, or if you’d prefer you can use your local PayPoint.
You simply top-up your ParentPay account online by debit or credit card, or in cash through PayPoint stores. Payment by direct debit is also available. Your ParentPay balance can be used immediately to pay for any of your children’s items at any school using ParentPay.
Introduction to ParentPay
ParentPay offers you the freedom to make payments whenever and wherever you like, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – safe in the knowledge that the technology used is of the highest internet security available. Making a payment is straightforward and ParentPay holds a payment history for you to view at a later date. Once you have activated your account you can make online payments straight away.
WHAT DOES PARENTPAY DO?
- Enables you to pre-book and pay for school meals
- Pay for all school trips and activities
- Offers a highly secure payment site
- Gives you a history of all the payments you have made
- Allows to create a single account login across all your children that attend a ParentPay school
- Shows you all items available for payment relevant to each of your children
- Emails a receipt of your payment to the email address you register
- Offers you the ability to set automated email/SMS payment reminders
HOW DO I GET STARTED?
You will be sent an activation email containing your activation username and password to enable you to setup your ParentPay account. During the activation process you will be guided through changing your username and password to something more memorable; if you have more than one child at a ParentPay school/s you can also add children to a single account providing one login for all children at ParentPay schools.