Parent Information
At Barnes Wallis Academy we value the close relationship we have with our parents.
The three-way link between home, school and the student is crucial to the child achieving their maximum potential.
By working together we can ensure a happy, successful secondary school career. We value the support of parents and offer a range of activities to strengthen our partnership.
As part of our Home School Partnership Agreement we expect parents to:
- Take an interest in the work of their child and encourage them to always do their best.
- Monitor their child’s homework on Bromcom and make sure they complete it.
- Make sure their child attends school on time every day and inform the school as soon as possible if they are absent.
- Make sure their child has the right equipment for school and send them in the full and correct uniform.
- Encourage the student to have high standards of behaviour at all times and support the school if sanctions and detentions become necessary.
- Let the school know if there are any problems likely to effect their child.
- Attend parents’ evenings and read letters from the school and reply if necessary.
- Contact the school quickly if worried or concerned about any issue.
- Support events that the school is involved in.
- Encourage the student to respect their environment.
- By agreeing to these statements in this partnership we, as a school will do everything we can to support your child and make sure their time at Barnes Wallis Academy is happy and successful.
Communication with Parents/ Carers
Barnes Wallis Academy uses My Child at School (MCAS) to communicate with parents. You re able to log in to your account here:
mcas parent app quick guide.pdf
To download the app:
Supporting Mental Well Being
Useful Links
Support for parents and carers to keep children safe online
Stem4 - Supports positive mental health
Calm Harm - Supports people through issues of self harm
Clear Fear - Supports young people with issues relating to anxiety and depression
Combined Minds - Supports families with young people who have mental health issues
Useful Documents
- Anger Coping Strategies
- Anger what is it
- Anxiety Resource Pack
- Bereavement Loss
- CCO Childrens guide to Corona Virus
- Coping with self harm a parents guide
- COVID 19 Healthy Minds Update
- Healthy Minds Lincs Free online managing worries and anxious feelings workshop and other resources
- Helping Children Cope with Stress During the COVID 19 Outbreak 1
- Lincolnshire Helpline Details
- Mental health in children and young people a parents guide
- Mind Booklet How to Deal with Anger
- Online safety at home thinkuknow 11 13s home activity sheet
- Online safety at home thinkuknow 14 home activity sheet 1
- Relaxation Booklet
- Social media and young people a parents guide
Complaints
We welcome your comments and ideas, but hope that the need to make a complaint never arises.
If you have a worry or concern please contact your child's Form Tutor or Head of House in the first instance. Formal complaints, particularly about the curriculum, should preferably be put in writing to the Principal. If you feel you need to make a complaint, we will work with you to resolve the matter as soon as possible.
Key information
Our performance against other schools can be found via the Department for Education’s School Performance Table.
KS4 Performance Data
Our performance against other schools can be found via the Department for Education’s School Performance Table.
Given the uneven impact of the pandemic on school and college performance data, the government has said you should not make direct comparisons between the performance data for one school or college and another, or to data from previous years
Ofsted & Parent View
Our latest Ofsted report can be found here.
