Thank you to everyone who completed the parent questionnaire during Parents’ Evening. Please see what the responses were below, along with some further information.
| Question | Reponses | Additional Information | |
| How many of our school values can you name? Please share these with us. | May 2023 | November 2023 | Parents/carers are more familiar with our values. |
| 29% knew all values | 38% know all values | ||
| 20% knew two or three values | 39% know two or three values | ||
| 33% knew no values | 14% know no values | ||
| What is our vision?
Our Vision: Learn Today, Lead Tomorrow |
37% know our vision and were able to share it with our P7 leaders | Our new vision was introduced at the end of the last session. We are delighted that many of our parents/carers know our new vision and to improve on this further, we will be sharing a family homework challenge in January focusing on our new vision. | |
| 63% were not sure what the new vision is | |||
| We have experienced some technical difficulties with our school app. Are you now able to access it? | 85% have experienced technical difficulties | East Ayrshire Council and the school have been working closely with staff for Safer Schools Scotland to trouble shoot some of the issues. As the app is our main way of communicating with you, we need you to let us know if you are continuing to have difficulties so that we can help with this. Please come into school to see us if this is the case. | |
| 14% have not experienced technical difficulties | |||
| 1% do not use the app | |||
| Do you use the date section on our school app? | 64% use the date section of the app (Calendar) | The date section of the app is a work in progress. It can be found if you swipe the tiles to the left. We are continuing to try to make this as user friendly as possible. It is an Outlook calendar. You can change the view to day, week or month. If there is one than one item in a date (You see the +2 sign), just scroll over to the right and you will see the items. Sometimes we add additional information for events and to view this, just click on the event. | |
| 36% do not use the date section of the app (Calendar) | |||
| Rate how helpful you find our school Blog in providing information about our school. | 3.5/5 star rating | The school Blog is a website that aims to provide parents/carers with static information that can be accessed at any time. This includes a variety of menus and is a place where we save documents and policies. Please take a look by simply Googling ‘Nether Robertland Blog’ or alternatively, you can access the Blog from the app by clicking on the second tile. | |
| Do you follow our school Twitter/X | 50% follow us | We currently have 544 followers. We use Twitter/X to share our school and classes successes and achievements. This is a platform that allows parents/carers to share in some of the wonderful learning that takes place in our school. | |
| 50% do not follow us
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| If you follow us on Twitter/X, do you like the Tweets/posts? | 55% like the tweets/posts | We would like our parents/carers to interact with our tweets/posts. We invite you to click on the love heart and/or leave a comment. | |
| 31% do not like the tweets/posts | |||
| 14% sometimes like the tweets/posts | |||
| Do we provide opportunities for you to engage with the school and your child’s learning? | 73% said that we provide opportunities | Ways we provide opportunities for you to engage in your child’s learning:
· Weekly homework · Family homework challenges · Meet the Teacher event at the start of term · This session every class will have a parental engagement event · Competitions · School Blog · Twitter/X |
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| 4% said that we do not provide opportunities | |||
| 23% said that we somewhat provide opportunities | |||
| Do you have any suggestions for how we can improve upon parental engagement? | · Communication to be more in advance
· More classroom visits · More Twitter/X posts · Parent/teacher learner sessions |
We continue to reflect and act on parent/carers view to ensure that parental engagement is prioritised. | |
| Are you aware of how homework is communicated for your child? | 89% are aware how homework is communicated | P3 to P7 classes – Homework is communicated through Teams
P1 – P2 classes – Homework is communicated through the individual class Blogs |
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| 11% are not aware of how homework is communicated | |||
| Do you value homework as an opportunity to support your child’s learning further? | 67% value homework | We feel that we need to gather more views regarding how we take forward homework at our school. We will be consulting with you on this in May 2024. | |
| 12% do not value homework | |||
| 21% somewhat value homework | |||
