Parental Engagement

sandbach high school and sixth form college

Parental Engagement

Parental engagement

Parental engagement plays a crucial role in shaping a student’s educational journey. When parents are actively involved in their children’s schooling—through conversations about progress, shared expectations, attendance at achievement evenings, and helping to build a supportive learning environment at home—students tend to achieve higher academic attainment, better behaviour and attendance, and greater emotional wellbeing.

For us, this means that a strong partnership between home and school benefits students in many ways. It can increase their motivation and confidence to tackle challenges; ensure that students feel supported not just academically, but socially and emotionally; and help bridge gaps for those who may face additional barriers. In short, when parents, students and teachers all work together, the impact goes well beyond grades—it helps prepare young people for further study, work, and life as mature, resilient adults.

We are proud of the relationships we have fostered with parents and carers and continually strive to ensure that we are responsive to feedback with the students’ at the centre of our decision making.

We hold a number of parental partnership forums each year to provide information to parents and carers as well as opportunities to speak to subject experts about both academic and pastoral matters. Please visit our engagement events page here for more information.

Parent Champions

We are lucky and proud to have a number of parents/carers who represent the Parent body as Parent Champions. This group support the school by providing valuable feedback on school initiatives as well as supporting parents/carers when issues arise outside of school. The next step for this organisation is to set up peer support networks for both existing and new parents. Our Parent Champions are also important advocates for our school, supporting with open events and fundraising initiatives.
If you are interested in becoming a Parent Champion, or would like more information, please contact Hannah McNeilage (Assistant Headteacher) on hmcneilage@sandbachhigh.co.uk.

Parental Events

We pride ourselves on having excellent relationships with parents to achieve the best for pupils at our school. Research suggests that the effect of parental engagement over a student’s career is equivalent to adding two to three years to that student’s education (Hattie, 2016).

We work in partnership with parents and welcome you to engage with our school community through parental partnership forum events linked to all areas of school life lead by our curriculum and pastoral colleagues. Feedback from parents who have attended has been positive and we encourage all parents to attend. Visit our Parental events page

If you are interested in becoming a friend of the school, or would like to support us with fundraising, please email Miss Jane Unwin for more details Junwin@sandbachhigh.co.uk

LPPA Update

Many thanks to everyone including parents, students, staff, trustees and community partners who have helped to achieve the LPPA accreditation. This Leading Parent Partnership Award recognises our commitment to work with our stakeholders, to listen to what they say, to be willing to make changes based on feedback and to encourage dialogue between home/community and school.

We are so pleased to be able to let you know we have been awarded this after working towards it for the last year. It has been a rigorous process with us ensuring that we are working well with our partners and being willing to listen.

We are committed to this being part of our school culture, not just for the award. We have learnt such a lot from it; it's been a rewarding process. As we move forward, please continue to respond to our feedback requests.

Many thanks for your continued support.

May 25

Visyon a charity who support children's mental health have a live parent webinar on the 24th September at 6-7:30 on Managing Emotions, to book a place please visit their webpage on: https://www.visyon.org.uk/parentwebinars