At Sunninghill we have a strong partnership with parents. Education for us involves the pupil, the school and the parents all focused on helping the child achieve to their full potential.

As a school we aim to work with parents on a wide variety of areas from homework and choosing the best school for their child’s future, to healthy eating and minimising the effects of modern living that puts huge pressures on our children.

As a result we have social events, newsletters, regular reports, homework diaries and parents evenings, which all help to improve communications and maintain an inter-active dialogue. There is also a strong parents’ association, which helps raise extra funds for the school and stages great social events for parents and the staff.

Parents Association

The Parents, Friends and Teachers Association is a thriving group at Sunning hill, which fosters understanding between staff, Governors and parents and provides a social calendar of events for the school. The PTFA hosts a series of activities throughout the year for children and parents to enjoy - from a Christmas Fayre, Easter Egg Hunts, to a Summer Fun Day and a quiz curry night. The highlight is a glamorous Ball, which is held every other year.

Funds raised from PTFA events are spread carefully through every area of the school, to enrich the curriculum of key departments, sports, music and the environment. Hence purchases have included a climbing wall, a joint investment in an Outdoor Classroom and Edible Garden with the school, musical instruments, history artefact boxes, digital cameras and printers, a sound system for drama, equipping the gardening club and knit and stitch club, paper recycling bins for every classroom and a refurbishment of the nursery garden for example.

An AGM is held every year, in October where key officers and a form link parent is elected for every year in the school - hence there are a minimum of 9 parent members, and a member of staff on the committee at any one time.

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