Reaching high for the best for your child

From next month, we are changing the way in which Parent & Carer Forum works, to ensure there is greater representation of views across the whole school.

The new forum will be made up of one Year Group Representative from each year group, who will meet once a month with Mr Staples, and other staff as necessary, to discuss new ideas which will make Fairlands go from strength to strength.

The meetings are very informal, very positive, and very solution focused - and there will always be cups of tea & biscuits! They will normally be held at 2pm on Fridays but we will agree dates with everybody at the first meeting on 9th June 2017. 

SO……DO YOU WANT TO BE THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR YOUR YEAR GROUP?

Although it sounds very ‘grand’, there won’t be huge demands placed on you as a year group rep. We mainly want to hear what your experience is as a parent or carer in the school. Occasionally, we might ask you to take a question away to ask a few other parents what they think and let us know what was said. We tend to talk about how things are working in the school, like homework or uniform expectations, or discuss new ideas for curriculum events and activities. The representatives will change once a year. 

If you are interested, all you need to do is let your child’s class teacher know and we will get in touch. We will not get into nominations or voting as that can sometimes get difficult or embarrassing! If there is more than one volunteer per year group, we will simply draw names out of a hat.

If you are not sure, but think you might be interested and want to find out more, then feel free to come and speak to your child’s class teacher, one of the deputy heads, or Mr Staples and they will be able to talk it through with you.