Parents' Voice and Annual Surveys

Parent and carer voice is really valued at St George's.

We look to engage with families through family events, senior staff visibility, annual parent surveys and forums.

Below you will find our last four parent surveys. We get excellent feedback from our families but you also challenge us to be better.

In response to our 2026 survey we will:

1. Relaunch our Parents' Forum to have a strong dialogue on school improvment.

2. Strengthen our support offer to families for children with SEND with the development of our Inclusion Champions throughout the school and regular multi-agency drop in sessions.

3. Ensure that we work with our families to have a robust and effective safe use of screen time policy.

4. Use your feedback to adapt our school improvment plans for 2026-2029. This will be published on the school website.

5. Continue to strengthen communication from other senior leaders and governors. You expressed a lack of awareness for other senior leaders, including safeguarding, SENDCO, governors and some key staff. This will be done at meetings, communication strategy, website, family events etc.

In response to our 2025 and 2026 surveys we:

1. Ensured that parent voice is included in our 3 year school improvement priorities.

2. Developed a new programme of family events to ensure that parents and carers have a menu of:

Transition and welcome events to their new year group.
Curriculum information events so you can know more about how we teach and experience our classrooms.
Parent evening and aspiration events.
Drop in events for academic and personal support.

These will be a combination of during the school day and after school events. We will also offer a balance of 'in person and remote events.'

3. Ensured that 'in school' appointments can be made for parents' evenings. The majority of our parents prefer remote parents' evenings but a lot of our improvment comments requested in person appointments.

2. Continue to reduce the number of platforms that families have to use in school. We will slowly (to ensure success) move our communication and payments onto Compass.

4. Worked incredibly hard to strengthen our catering offer and communication by working with food foundation, soil association on their food for life programme and being selected as one of 10 beacon schools for for school food project in 2026.

4. Ensured that we provide more inclusion and multi agency support. We have termly drop ins, family events and now have a strong inclusion leadership team with 5 staff qualified at SENDCO level.

5. Ensured that we offered online parents evenings (over 80% of families valued this) but also offer face to face appointments.

You can read our 2026, 2025, 2024 and 2023 survey feedback below. We use our surveys to celebrate our strengths but also make best decisions on how to improve, offer family learning, host parents' evenings etc.

Do you know how parents' feel nationally?

National Parentkind survey is a good document for understanding views, hopes and concerns of other parents and carers.

Parent Talk

St George's is delighted to work in partnership with Parent Talk. Their approach as a parenting support service, is that every family is unique. They understand the common challenges but send you guidance based on your family and your child.

You can find answers to parenting questions in their advice articles. Or talk to a parenting coach about anything that’s worrying you. It’s all free, and no topic is too big, small, or embarrassing.

Link is: https://parents.actionforchildren.org.uk/

St George's Primary School

St George's Primary School

Parents' Voice and Annual Surveys

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