PARENT FEEDBACK QUESTIONNAIRE

MAY 2015 - AUTUMN TERM

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A number of new appointments

for September have been
made that will have
a significant positive
impact to create
consistency throughout
the college.

DARTON
COLLEGE

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All staff are challenging

all learners
regarding the correct
uniform standards
and equipment.

Enforce uniform
protocols.

Staffing issues eg.

supply staff or
student teachers
used.

A key focus since September has

been to improve the consistency
and quality of teaching across the
College.
All staff development meetings
focus on teaching & learning and
we are beginning to see the
impact of this. This work &
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focus will continue this
Increase
year and beyond.
some teaching

We have introduced Learner

ID cards that incorporate
priority passes.
Bus bans are issued to
learners who do not
behave appropriately
on our school buses.

Last term we began a weekly Newsletter.

We have added staff emails onto our website
for parents/carers to make direct contact.

Generic letters now go home via

email to ensure that they are received by
parents/carers. Text messages are
now used for updates, reminders,
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notifications and links to
useful information.
Increase

Communication.

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standards as
some vary.

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We have developed a Communication

Protocol across school.

We introduced the School Gateway App.

This shows attendance, timetable and payments/
cashless catering/behaviour/attainment/
achievement.

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We are open,
honest and respond
to feedback

More
homework.

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Improve learner
behaviour on
buses.

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How is bullying
dealt with?

Any reports of bullying are treat

seriously and dealt with appropriately,
often including inviting parents into
school. We continue to run an
Anti Bullying Focus Group. Our
expectations, rewards & consequences
system is visible around school. We work
hard to ensure that these are
consistently applied &
that there is a culture across
our school
that fosters mutual respect.

We agree.
We have revised the
homework policy
and are launching
a new method of setting
and communicating
homework
this half term.

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DARTON
COLLEGE

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Concentrate more
on lower
ability students.

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More emphasis
on rewarding
learners.

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A new rewards system has

been launched this term to
ensure that the use of
praise gets a much higher
profile at Darton. We
apologise for the delay
in not introducing
this sooner.

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Darton College has a highly regarded
nurture provision for learners with SEN.
We have employed a number of primary
practitioners in core subjects to
improve provision for learners working below
age related expectations on entry.
Likewise we are reviewing our KS3 curriculum so
that it is sufficiently challenging for our
higher attaining learners. Currently it does not
build sufficiently on what has been achieved at
Primary KS2 level.
There will also be a much higher
emphasis on consolidating &
developing literacy and
numeracy key skills at
KS3.

DARTON COLLEGE