St Jude's Church of England Primary School Blog

Parent Questionnaires

What an evening. Am writing this at 8.30pm having eaten dinner whilst reading some more of the questionnaires from parents. I felt inspired to write this now, even if it’s not posted until tomorrow.

On behalf of the entire St Jude’s family, I’d like to say a huge thank you to all the parents that completed the questionnaire over the last few weeks and to say your positive comments are gratefully received.

As honesty is one of our school values we would like to also share with you some of the areas we felt we could develop and we thank you for your openness with this also.

Here are some of the things you said or asked and what we have or are doing about them.

• You said- “Do we have a daily act of worship?”
• We say - “Yes - on a Monday Collective Worship is either led by Miss Waelend or Canon Peter, on a Tuesday we have Key Stage Collective Worship and Class Worship, Wednesday is our class led Worship and once a half term we are joined by Gareth Benton from Kings Church, Thursday’s worship is led by Reverend Duff and his team from St Jude’s and on Friday’s we share our weeks successes, Big Questions and think forward to the week coming, while saying thank you for the past week.”
• You said - “I don’t know if I’m allowed to join the school for Collective Worship”
• We say - “We’d love to have you and warmly welcome all our families, friends and stakeholders to Collective Worship on a Monday or Class Worship on a Wednesday if you have relations in that class.
• You said - “Can there be a time outside of the school day where we can meet together to worship?”
• So we - “Currently have a team of parents working on starting a prayer group - look out for more information soon”.

I have a few more to read through and will post any more suggestions as soon as I can. In the meantime, if there is something you are unhappy with, would like to ask, or have a suggestion then please do email us - all staff emails are available on the contact us page of the website or failing that pop in and see us.

Must go…. It’s starting to rain and I’ve got washing out.