Your Latest Feedback
Thank you to all our parents for your comments and feedback. Please find a selection below.
Transition to Nursery or Reception
My daughter has made amazing progress in her emotionl development, and we've seen her grow in confidence - she walks in to class so much happier now compared to the start of the year. Your care and encouragement have played a big part in helping her get ready for a smooth transition to Reception, and we're so grateful.
We will always be eternally grateful to all the nursery staff for the incredible care and support they have shown. Their patience, kindness and dedication in helping her settle - especially during challenging moments - went above and beyond what we could have hoped for.
Thank you to all of you for making her first experience of school so positive, she's loving learning and always so excited to come to school, hoping it continues as she gets older!
Teaching and Learning
We really like everything about the school, and its outstanding teaching activities, and wide range of after school activities. Parents visiting classrooms and activities were really helpful and supportive - they were my favourite part of the year - it gave us a sense of what our child is doing.
I cannot praise this school enough. There is such a strong culture of kindness and acceptance. Alongside a great education with lots of varied ways of delivering teaching, there are lots of extracurricular activities and celebration of music, sport and cultural diversity. They are great at celebrating effort and not just achievements. My two children absolutely loved coming to school, sad to be moving on and am so thankful they had such an excellent start at Burlington.
Leadership and School Values
Thank you to Mrs Yay-Walker, Mrs Docrwa & Mrs McEvoy for their leadership, creating a kind, inclusive, engaging and progressive (not in the social reform sense but in that there is always continuous improvements and tweaks to the) school environment. It is filtered down strongly and we recognise the values you are trying instil in the kids. The curriculum is well developed and my child is pushed to reach her full potential every year.
I would like to add a note of thanks to Mrs Yay-Walker and the Senior Leadership team. It's wonderful seeing you all out greeting us in the mornings. All your hard work and dedication is much appreciated.
You Said... We Did
A parent requested that we do more to encourage children to try more new vegetables. We have healthy eating incentives at lunch times when new vegetables are promoted and children are encouraged to try a new vegetable with a simple sticker if they have tried it. We will relaunch this with our caterers and also learn about it in assembly/in class.
In response to a request to use washable paints for the Nursery children, we would like to assure parents that we do use washable paints but we appreciate that it can be difficult to clean. Nursery will now be focusing on training children to put on aprons every time they paint and are also purchasing some larger, long sleeved aprons.
Following a helpful suggestion from parent feedback, Reception and Year 1 will also be posting their ‘What we are learning’ posters on Tapestry as the Year 2 team already do.
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SEND and Inclusion
Thank you for helping my child this year. I felt that the school was really helpful and supportive and he has really benefited from the interventions that were put in place this year. Thank you to the Deputy Headteacher and the support staff for all of your hard work this year. Excellent communication.
Here are some of the things that you really do well:
-Excellent communication!
-Really good advice and steps that could be taken at home to support my child
-Excellent relationships between my child and all of his teachers
-Very good monitoring of my child’s progress and timely interventions put in place when concerns arose
Thank you for listening to my concerns.
It must have been challenging at times having a child who couldn't speak much English, but under your patient and caring guidance, my son grew to truly enjoy school. He often talked about his friends and teachers with a big smile, and it means so much to us that he was able to create such happy memories in just one term.
I cannot praise SEN support my child gets enough. She struggles with transition, communication, anxiety and emotional regulation; this has all been looked at and continually supported. What a difference the Deputy Headteacher, Class teacher and all that have been involved with her have made to her being able to access learning. From very early on with us working together, my child’s triggers were identified and her signs of anxiety picked up on. The Class teacher focused on helping my child deal with and process that, found motivators to get her interested and trying new and challenging things. You all have an incredible passion for teaching and this shows in abundance in the support and care shown, constant communication, ideas, structures, planners and mini support classes. The open door approach is so relaxing and just knowing that you will be listened to lighten the load enormously. Thank you all! You really do a make a difference to our journey.
Feedback for our Parenting Course
You have both transformed our family life! We are beginning to enjoy our children more with a little less shouting and nagging. After attending the parenting course, I feel like Mary Poppins with a bag of tricks and parenting techniques! I’ve gained a toolbox to use and adapt as my children grow. The most magical for us is praise and empathy. Being more aware and listening, to make a difference. Family rules rock! The hand gestures for choices and consequences work wonders! A huge thank you to the both of you. Your support and advice have been much appreciated. You are both amazing! You have a great partnership, which in turn delivers the objectives of the course in a nurturing and fulfilling way. This course is outstanding! I’ve learnt soo much and have already recommend to other parents.
The positive parenting course has been a brilliant, insightful journey into the daunting world of parenting and expertly delivered by both Terri and Michelle. I wish we had known about this valuable resource earlier on in our parenting journey and I would go as far to say it is as, if not, more important and valuable as the NCT antenatal classes we attended before becoming parents. Lots of soul searching and self-reflection, the course invites you to delve into your own childhood experiences and upbringing (as well as learning from such experiences from others in the group) to understand what worked well and what didn’t work so well. This has helped in really understanding various experiences from my child’s perspective in their important formative years and whilst much of the course content does seem quite obvious in many instances, the reality is that due to our busy schedules and hectic lives we live, we often forget or we are distracted from what is truly important and best for our children in these critical early years. The basic interactions, reactions and engagement we have with our children on a daily basis clearly has a profound impact on their own mood, character, wellbeing and development and attending this course has highlighted the ways in which we can tailor our own daily engagement with our children to become more naturally conscious of this, in doing so really helping our children to excel and avoiding habits that we have as parents that may be inadvertently hindering their growth.
I have learnt so many useful tips and strategies from the course to promote my child’s independence and to encourage them to be the best version of themselves whilst simultaneously using the parenting experience for self-growth and inner reflection. Whilst I realise that nurturing young children is no easy task and there will be many challenges and hurdles to overcome, the course has really helped shift my perspective of parenting into a much more positive and rewarding context. I am incredibly grateful to the course leaders Terri & Michelle for their dedication, positivity, humour, kindness and encouragement during the past couple of months and for delivering the course in such an engaging and thoughtful manner throughout. I would highly recommend this course to any parent or carer to really equip themselves and get the most out of the parenting journey. Thank you Michelle and Terri once again!
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