Parent Feedback

In the ‘You Said, We Did’ table below, you will find a selection of the feedback shared with us during the Autumn term coffee mornings. Additional ‘You Said, We Did’ commentaries will be shared with families in the Spring and Summer terms.

You Said We Did - Autumn Term 2025

Spring Term Coffee Mornings

These will take place from 9–10am in the School Hall (entrance via Staines Road).

Tuesday 20th January - Online Safety

Tuesday 10th February - Supporting Pupil Wellbeing

Tuesday 10th March - Reading for Pleasure and Supporting Reading at Home

We have included the words shared by another school leader, Dr Jeremy Hannay, recently below for us to reflect on as individuals and as a school community.

Somewhere in the last five years, something has shifted.
Not just in schools - but in us.

We’ve entered an era where grumbling has become a pastime, critique a sport, and dissatisfaction a kind of cultural currency. A mistake isn’t a moment anymore - it’s a scandal. A misstep isn’t feedback - it’s a pile-on. And the smallest inconvenience is met not with curiosity or compassion, but with outrage and entitlement.

We used to sit together and figure things out. Now we forward screenshots into WhatsApp groups and build tiny, temporary rebellions. We used to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Now the doubt arrives long before the benefit. And somewhere in the fog of complaint and critique, we’ve stopped noticing that the vast majority of what surrounds us is actually remarkable.

Everything’s amazing.
And nobody’s happy.

It’s a strange and exhausting phenomenon.
A world where the bar keeps rising while grace keeps shrinking.
Where leaders and teachers and parents and children are expected to be flawless - but are met with fault-finding at every turn.
Where appreciation feels old-fashioned. Gratitude feels optional. And celebration feels like something we’ll get to later… when everything is perfect.

But here’s the quiet truth: we’re losing something precious.
We’re losing the very climate that allows human beings - adults and children - to flourish.

What schools, families, and communities need right now is not another round of commentary from the sidelines.
They need something braver.
They need people willing to put their phones down, lift their heads up, and actually see each other again.

There is so much good here if we’re willing to see it.