External relationships and focus meetings at School 360
External relationships are extremely important to School 360 which is proud to be part of a diverse and vibrant community in the heart of East London and they want the school community to benefit from this diversity. The school has focused on building a panel of members that work with the school and Citizens UK to identify and tackle issues that matter to the local community. The Community Panel was set up to include parents, school staff, people from local businesses and social enterprises, charities, and community and religious leaders.
In addition, School 360 has scrapped the traditional ‘parents’ evening’ and opted for weekly Focus Meetings, providing regular touch points for parents that allow for proactive, not reactive, conversations about progress throughout the year. Focus Meetings are a child-centred, collaborative approach to supporting our pupils. Our teachers have found that this approach helps build more authentic relationships with families and caregivers, as well as making it much easier to speak authentically about each child, a well-known challenge of long parents’ evenings.
Here we have grouped School 360 signature practices which come under the umbrella of External Relationships and Focus Meetings which you can read in the PDF below.
- 12. Focus meetings
- 13. Admissions
- 16. Community panel
