Sandbach High School & Sixth Form College: Awarded the GOLD STANDARD QUALITY AWARD for Parental Engagement
| Walk and Talk events (for parents/carers of students currently at the school only)
In response to feedback from parents, members of the Senior Leadership Team are giving a tour of the school each half term, to book a place on the next tour on Tuesday 4th March 2025 at 9am
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Parental Engagement (PEG) Events
Our highly acclaimed Parental Workshops. We work hard as a school to support parents and carers as much as we can. Each academic year we host numerous Parent / Carer workshops, ranging from Supporting Your Child with Revision, Subject specific support to Online Safety. All of which are aimed at helping you and your families to understand and support your child in their academic journey. The workshops are interactive and delivered by our wonderful and dedicated staff. PowerPoint slides (converted to PDF) can be found below.
PEG events
SEND Parental Engagement event, focusing on the changes to the NHS Neurodevelopmental pathway for Autism and ADHD
To sign up to attend this event please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/F4fKv2Upcb
| Event Title | Date | Venue | Who is it for? | Event Leaders |
| Year 10 and 12 Information evening | Thursday 3rd October | Main Hall | Year 10 and 12 parents and carers | Mr D Shaw |
| Year 5 and 6 SEND Parents information evening | Wednesday 9th October | Main Hall | Parents and carers of prospective students in Years 5 and 6 | Mr M Hitchin
Mrs J Squires-Hall |
| KS3 Maths, English and Science information evening | Thursday 10th October | Main Hall | Parents and carers of Years 7, 8 and 9 | Mrs H McNeilage |
| Parents and Carers into Languages | Wednesday 13th November | TBC | Parents and carers of Years 7-11 | Miss H O’Rourke |
| Mental Health 1 – Managing exam stress | Monday 25th November | Main Hall | All parents and carers | Mr M Hitchin |
| Parent Council | Monday 9th December | F7 | All parents and carers welcome | Mrs H McNeilage |
| Supporting your child with friendships | Wednesday 11th December | G8way2 | All parents and carers welcome | Mr K Fairclough
Mrs J Snowling |
LPPA Award
Sandbach High School is currently working to achieve a school improvement award (LPPA) but more importantly, see how we can work better with you and create a solid parent-school working relationship to benefit our young people.
In order to evaluate our current provision, we need your input. Your views are important in helping us understand what we are doing well and how we can do even better.
Please will you complete and submit the survey (emailed to parents/carers on 8th March)
It should only take a couple of minutes. Please respond within the time frame, ending Monday 18th March. After the given timeframe the link will no longer be valid and your comments may not be included in the survey results.
All responses and suggestions will be carefully considered and used to plan a range of school improvements.
Parent Council Meetings
Sandbach High School & Sixth Form College: Awarded the GOLD STANDARD QUALITY AWARD for Parental Engagement
The Parent Council is something we are extremely proud of in our school community. The Parent Council is a group of parents who volunteer to represent their views. It has an enormously important role to play in our school improvement by ensuring that the parental perspective is represented and considered.
Our Parent Council creates:
★A route through which parents as a group advise the trustees of their views
★A route for the trustees and Senior Leader Team to consult parents as a group
★A platform for parents to share views and ideas
★A platform to support parents
★Confidence in parents to support their child
★Confidence in parents to get involved in the life of the school
★An opportunity for personal development
★A platform to reach out to other parents
Actions from Parent Council
- Online Learning Review
- They have provided constructive feedback based on Parent comments / feedback.
- The PC reviewed / evaluated the wellbeing of students at home, via Facebook and emails to the PC support address. Sharing suggestions from parents. Focus areas, activities we could do to alleviate screen time and workload. All have been actioned and supported.
- Reviewing in partnership with students our bullying policy
- Feedback on Year 11 and 13 grading procedure
- Feedback on the new progress report system
Become a member of the parent council
We are always looking for and welcoming new members of the group. If you are interested in taking an active role in your child's education and having a real impact on their education, then please contact our Secretary Sarah Winkle, sandbachhighparentcouncil@gmail.com or Hannah McNeilage Assistant Headteacher HMcNeilage@sandbachhigh.co.uk
Parents and Friends Association (PFA)
Here at Sandbach High School we have a growing Parents and Friends Association. This group is an important aspect of our school community and one that we are proud of. We are always after new friends. If you are interested in becoming a friend of the school, please email Miss Jane Unwin for more details Junwin@sandbachhigh.co.uk
Plenty of tea and cake available!
| You said | We did |
| 1. It is tricky to find staff email addresses | Our website now has a full staff list, including email addresses |
| 2. We'd love more access to the school and site
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We have reviewed everything we offer and seen how we can improve this alongside giving more opportunities. We now offer 'Walk and Talks' during the school day, hosted by SLT for any member of the wider community to participate in and view our school in action, plus ask questions they have. We have changed some of our parent/carer online events to face-to-face to give more access to staff and school. Every year group now has an 'in school event' where they meet with staff. |
| 3. We don't always know what is going on in school. | We know life is hectic, so each week we are sharing via social media accounts and email our 'what's on next week' calendar outlining sports, events, trips etc |
| 4. Limited student spaces to use during break/lunchtime during wet weather | We are provisionally commissioning a large purpose built enclosed shelter to accommodate students - but we need your help with fundraising! |
| 5. Organisation of PEG events (parental engagement) | We have taken all of the comments on board to improve clashes, giving more notice and timely communication. |
| 6. Website - exam information and reporting home | The website has been changed to provide information on where to get help from and details surrounding trial exams |
| 7. Parents evening face to face and longer appointment times
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We are now operating a hybrid of online and face-to-face Achievement evenings. Parents were surveyed to ask if they would like longer appointments and reduce the number or keep them the same time and still see as many staff as they wished. Outcome was to keep it the same. As a side note, this is called Achievement Evening as some students raised that as they didn't have parents, the title was upsetting them |
| 8. When students have an incident or fall out, how do we know the outcome for others involved or ensure a follow up happens | We have reviewed our practice and staff members book in formal follow up slots with them to check in and reassess. We cannot share outcomes for other but we can reassure it has been dealt with |
| 9. Volume and priority of emails home | This is something we are currently looking into! |
| 10. We struggle to get through on the phone to you | We have purchased an additional number of external phone lines so getting through to us is easier |
| 11. Sometimes we need reminders of events but not by email | We are using social media more to remind and reshare important information. Please sign up! |
| 12. Having more access to staff and being able to see what life at the school is like for my child | From this we created the July 'Park in the Park' where parents were invited to engage in music, art, dance and sports with their child. More exciting events to come. We loved having you! |
| 13. We'd love to help out in school - what can we do?
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Great idea but needs further planning due to safeguarding. We are soon launching our volunteer parental reading support, which would really help enrich literacy skills amongst students. Parent Council or Exam invigilator are other great ways to support us |
| 14. The website is difficult to navigate
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We have started to move things to help with this e.g. sorting polices alphabetically and linking key pages together. If you have any specific feedback on the website, please let us know by emailing csenior with the title 'website'. |
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