Valence School has been awarded the Leading Parent Partnership Award. 

We launched this process at the beginning of April 2019 by firstly setting up a working group to represent parents, governors, staff, students and external stakeholders of the school, which took approximately 18 months to achieve.

 We want the very best for our students and know that effective and positive parent partnerships can have a very real and lasting impact within school. Research makes it clear that effective working with parents has a major impact on the learning of children and young people.

 We have asked (and will continue to ask) parents for their views.  We do this through online surveys at different times in the year.   Their responses and detailed answers are useful in forming our ongoing actions.

 As a school, we have completed a self-evaluation of our relationship with parents, looking at things we do well already and those we could improve on.

Having this award will mean that our continued action plan will support us in our work to maintain the award, and more importantly, work towards continuing and improving relationships and communication with parents.