At Thoresby Vale Primary Academy, we believe a strong partnership between school and home is key to success. Our ‘parents as partners’ approach ensures we all work together to achieve the best for your children.

We are committed to building great relationships with families. We understand how important your trust is when you entrust us with your children’s care and education.

We offer a transition programme with activities to help everyone feel comfortable. You’ll also have opportunities to meet staff, learn about the curriculum, and join in learning with your child.

Good communication is vital, and we will have an open-door policy so you can easily share any questions, concerns, or feedback with us.

Our promise to families

  • We are an academy that prides itself on parental communication and believe this needs to be two-way to ensure success.
  • We are a welcoming and friendly academy for families and visitors.
  • We establish a mutually supportive and respectful relationship with all of our families, where trust and clear communication is at the heart of all we do.
  • We will keep parents informed and involved in a positive and honest way, through working in partnership together in order to help every child achieve their full potential socially, emotionally and academically.
  • We will respond swiftly and efficiently to the needs of families and visitors.
  • We will not accept discrimination or intolerance of any kind.
  • We will provide timely and relevant information for families through the use of our parental communications platform, text messaging service, website, and the email distribution of letters and newsletters.

What can families expect from us

We believe that a positive working relationship between school and home plays a very important role in the success of your child’s education. We pride ourselves on building good relationships with our families and want you to feel that you can come to us to share success, questions and concerns. Below is a guide to how we will communicate with you.

In-person

Our staff team will always be around at the gate and classroom doors at every drop off and pick. We are available for a quick chat. Please be mindful that these are very busy times of the day and are not always the best time for a lengthy conversation. Should you like to speak to one of us, please let us know and we can arrange a convenient time to talk.

Meet the teacher sessions

During term time children and families will have the opportunity to meet teaching staff before moving class or school.

Weekly newsletter

Keeping you up to date with everything that is going on within the academy and timely reminders about upcoming dates to be aware of.

Parents’ evenings

We will hold parents’ evenings twice a year in October and February. Through these we will offer a short, 10 minute catch up with your child’s class teacher to discuss how your child is doing in school. These will be booked via our booking system. Appointments will
be released a week ahead of parents’ evening weeks.

Annual reports

A formal end of year report will be sent home in July. This will be written by your child’s class teacher and outline your child’s strengths, progress and next steps.

Share the learning

Times when you can come into the academy and join in with your child’s learning experiences.

Curriculum newsletters

Letting you know what your child is learning at the academy and suggesting ways you can help.

I didn’t do it like that sessions

We realise that some things have changed since we were at school. These sessions help grown-ups to understand how children are taught and how they can help at home.

T with the P

Regular informal chances to meet with the principal, have a cuppa and share queries, feedback and positive experiences.

Weduc message

You can communicate with class teachers, teaching assistants and our office team via our WeDuc messaging function. Just search for the staff members name in the ‘To’ line. You can send your message at any time that suits you, but please be aware that our staff team are teaching all day and may not pick up messages straight away.

We want our staff team to come to work as their best selves, so it is important that they get to rest and spend time with their families outside of working hours. Our team are not expected to pick up any messages outside of working hours and will get back to you as soon as they can. Messages are a great way to let our team know quick messages. Anything urgent must come through our school office team so that we can be sure they will be picked up quickly.

For more information about Weduc please visit our parent communications page.

Communication will mostly be online (through our parental communication platform, emails, texts and website) as we have found that this helps ensure messages are delivered and families do not have too many things stuck to their fridge door! Our academy will also be cashless for your convenience.