Hurworth House School has developed positive parent relationships over several years. In January 2023, we signed up to the Leading Parent Partnership Award. This is a national award that provides a coherent framework in which schools, early years settings and other educational organisations can deliver effective parent engagement from early years to post-16.
Leading Parent Partnership Award
What does the school have to do to achieve the award?
The school has to meet the nine evidence-based objectives below to achieve the award:
- Demonstrate a commitment to work towards achieving the LPPA
- Make and implement effective plans to achieve and maintain the LPPA
- Show the school is a welcoming, communicative and friendly place for parents
- Promote the awareness and participation of all groups of parents/carers in supporting their children’s learning and developing their own learning. In addition, the school holds and actively promotes a programme of opportunities and events for joint parent and child participation
- Provide a good induction for all new parents/carers
- Provide parents/carers with relevant guidance and information to help them support their children’s learning
- Produce and implement parent-friendly policies to establish effective home-school links and to improve children’s attendance, punctuality, progress and positive participation in school
- Provide good support for all parents as their children move through or leave the school
- Summarise our achievements against the LPPA objectives and outlines for our future plan
‘Walking into Hurworth House, you are met with an overwhelming sense of belonging"
"One parent summed up her thought beautifully by stating, “It will be the greatest gift you will ever give your child – sending them to this wonderful school.”
LPPA report, 2024
Schools that achieve the LPPA award report:
- Improved punctuality, attendance and behaviour
- Improved pupil or student progress
- Increased parental involvement in consultation and learning activities
- Increased number and range of parents actively involved with the school
Each term the LPPA working party meet to work through each of the nine objectives and collate evidence for the school portfolio
To view Hurworth House School's LPPA Vision, please see below. To download our vision document, please click here.
What can families do to help Hurworth House School achieve this award?
- Read all newsletters and publicity we send out
- Come along to our events, if you can
- Complete any questionnaires or surveys we send out
- Come and speak with us directly if you have any questions
- We will keep you informed as to how we are getting on, and we look forward to seeing you at our family events, open classrooms, training events etc
- Partake in parental consultation e.g. trauma informed approaches, pupil reports
- Engage in home learning experiences with young people
- Actively engage in external learning experiences with young people
- Have exposure to and attend community-based learning workshops
"Walking around the school, the vision of the Headteacher Claire Blackett comes to life. The ethos is to provide an ambitious educational offer alongside highly specialised therapeutic interventions to empower their young people to achieve in all aspects of their emotional and academic development. Their 3C approach of Character, Creativity, Coaching is central to supporting their student’s development."
"The school clearly recognises and celebrates individuality. They have a clear identity and culture of expectations communicated through the Hurworth Way ethos."
LPPA report, 2024
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