Year 5 Parents

6th October 2015

Dear Parents

Year 5 Parents and Tutors Evening 15th October 2.00pm - 4.00pm and 4.45pm – 7.30pm

Further to the first newsletter of the term, we look forward to meeting with year 5 parents and your children at the subject teacher meetings next week.

We look to meet or report to parents every term of the school year. In this term parents meet with tutors for a 10 minute appointment. We have been gathering information from all your child’s teachers to create a brief overview report to discuss at this Tutor evening. This has been found to be extremely popular and helpful for parents.

We provide an online appointment system, which we introduced last academic year. It was very popular with parents - they generally found it very easy to use. The system is taking appointments from now. It will close for online appointment-making on Tuesday 13th October at 7.00pm. After that time you would need to contact the office. To use the online system please visit

https://holywellschool.parents eveningsystem.co.uk.

to book your appointments.

We have created a guide to help use this system. It can be found on the school website – www.holywell.beds.sch.uk

>News and events >Letters home >Parents’ appointments guide.

You may alternatively continue to use the attached booking pro-forma, but clearly it helps if as many families as possible use the online system.

This will be a very packed evening for colleagues and parents alike. (Teachers typically have over 4 hours of appointments in this afternoon/evening.) Each appointment is for 10 minutes. Please do not be offended that there will be signs on the desks to remind teachers and yourselves that the appointment needs to end on time if other parents are to have their meetings at the scheduled slot. If there are issues that require lengthier conversation then an arrangement should be made to set that up as soon after the evening as reasonably convenient.

Families with children with Special Educational Needs can also make an appointment to see Mrs Brightman, Assistant SENCo. She is available from 2.00 – 6.00pm

Appointments are offered in two main time slots – between 2.00 – 4.00pm or between 4.45 – 7.30pm. Your child will attend the meeting with you whichever slot you would like to take up. If you choose the afternoon slot then your child can go home with you after the appointment if that is more convenient for you. If you wish to use the paper-based system for getting an appointment, please let us have the reply slip back as soon as possible so that we can look to create a programme of appointments that comes as close as possible to parent requests.

Yours sincerely

Mrs H Bacon

Deputy Headteacher

REPLY AND APPOINTMENT SETTING SLIP

Year 5 Parent, Pupil and Tutor Evening 15th October 2015

Pupil Name……………………………………………………………….. Tutor Group ..5 ………

We will/will not be able to attend this consultation evening.

We would like an appointment within one of the following time slots:

(If more than one slot would be possible please do tick two boxes to help us set up the appointment programme)

2.00 – 3.00 / 3.00 – 4.00 / 4.45 – 6.00 / 6.00 – 7.20
Tick box(es) for preferred time:
Reply from tutor – appointment time:

I also need an appointment with Mrs Brightman (please tick box if this applies)

Signed……………………………………………………………………. (Parent/Carer)