Community - Family and friends
Students have a great deal of involvement with the local village community through a range of projects, such as litter picking, cleaning the village bus shelter, hanging bird feeders around the village and delivering the parish newsletter. Local businesses support the school very well, and are keen to do what they can to develop the students’ awareness of the world of work. People from surrounding villages are welcomed at school open days and school performances.
Parents and other family members are fully involved in the life of the school. Home school books provide a useful way of sending information to and from school for those students who do not live at The Shires. Parents are always welcome to come into class to work alongside their children or simply to observe from time to time. The school seeks to involve parents in school projects and events such as the ECO schools activity, the development of the school gardens and school events and concerts.
What Ofsted says...
Students make a very worthwhile contribution to community life.
