Tavistock College, Parents and Carers: Working Together to rebuild our lives

1. Tavistock College

Thank you for contributing to this survey. 
This is a collaborative approach between our School, Students, Parents and Carers.
The following questions have come together from a wide range of conversations with the school community.
The purpose of this survey is to gather your current thoughts and feelings and together develop ideas to help us all design a smooth and safe return to classroom learning in a fully populated school.

 
 

1. What year group will you start in September 2021

 

2. Practical Information.
We would like to hear from you what practical information you need for you to feel confident and comfortable with your child returning to classroom learning, currently estimated to be in the Autumn term for most.
Please rate below the importance to you of receiving this information:

Not important for me to knowImportant for me to knowIncredibly important for me to know
What will the number of children be in each class?
How will Break times be organised?
How will Lunch times be organised?
How will children's arrival at school be organised?
How will children's leaving school be organised?
How will social distancing be enforced?
How will hygiene (20 second hand washing) be accommodated?
How will return affect children living with their own/family shielding boundaries?
Will staff be wearing PPE?
Will children need to wear PPE?
 

3. Learning information:
Some children have thrived learning from home and some children have found this too difficult.
This question aims to gather any concerns you have.

No concern for meA little concern for meA significant concern for meI request this is an option explored
How will children catch up on their learning gaps?
How will you know children have new learning gaps?
Is there a future where online learning can be an option?
Is there a future where small class sizes can be an option?
Will there be a staggered approach to homework?
Will there be a staggered approach to academic learning?
 

4. Mental Health:
The impact of COVID-19; of Lockdown and our own life experiences during the last 3 months is different for every child, every family.
This question aims to understand the specific impact of COVID-19 and Lockdown on you.
This will help us begin to understand the impact of COVID-19 on our entire school community, not just our students. After all, you are the main adult in your young persons world, your mental health is also important to us.
We know our health anxieties, separation anxieties and social anxieties have had to increase significantly to help us naturally comply with health guidance during Lockdown, but what is the impact of this and what does reducing levels of anxiety need to look like.
Health anxiety refers to when we have a fear of becoming unwell
Social anxiety refers to when we have a fear of being around others
Separation anxiety refers to when we have a fear of being away from a loved one/loved ones
Low mood refers to a reduction in feeling hopeful, content, happy, positive.

never presentsometimes presentoften presentalways presentnot sure
I noticed my health anxieties pre COVID-19 to be:
I notice my health anxieties now to be:
I noticed my separation anxieties pre COVID-19 to be:
I notice my separation anxieties now to be:
I noticed my social anxieties pre COVID-19 to be:
I notice my social anxieties now to be:
I noticed my low mood pre COVID-19 to be:
I notice my low mood now to be:
 

5. Helpful Services:
We are wanting to make sure we provide information on different services that can at times help support individuals with experiences that affect their mental health.
The following list of life experiences will help us begin to recognise what our families might need over the coming weeks. This information will help us know areas to focus on to share with you. These packs will be available in the Autumn on our website.
Please be reassured, this questionnaire is 100% anonymous.

Yes I would like to know of helpful services for thisThis is not relevant to me but I would like helpful services information for someone elseI do not require information on this but see it is important for this information to be available
Financial hardship
Housing problems
Divorce/relationship breakdown
Death of a loved one during Lockdown to COVID-19
Death of a loved one during Lockdown not related to COVID-19
Traumatic life event
Domestic abuse from a young person to a sibling
Domestic abuse from a young person to a parent/carer
Child abuse from a parent to a young person/child
Domestic abuse from an adult to adult living together
Mental health needs of someone I live with
My own mental health needs
Physical health needs of someone I live with
My own physical health needs
 

6. Your child:
We are keen to know your experience and observations of your child during Lockdown.
This will begin to help us recognise the negative and positive impact of Lockdown for our pupils This could be helpful in our review of teaching during our transition phase as well as being helpful in mapping the functional, social and emotional needs of our pupils as they return.

yesno
Has loved online learning and thrived with this
Has thrived not being at school
Has really missed school
Is laid back about returning to school
Is concerned about returning to school
Is distressed about returning to school
 

7. Your child (continued).

significantly worsenedslightly worsenedstayed the samehas slightly improvedhas significantly improvedI don't know
How is their daily routine?
How is their sleep?
How is their mental health?
How is their physical health?
 

8. Keeping in Touch:
Thinking about keeping in touch with our pupils, parents and carers through the transition back into classroom learning, we welcome your ideas that could help us map out the next few weeks and months ahead.

(When we refer to FaceTime options this would be considered with safe platform, adjusted background scene and pupil in school uniform)

YesNoDon't know
Tutor FaceTime hello
Webinar Assemblies
Subject specific FaceTime reviews
Webinar Lessons
Small class FaceTime learning
Weekly Podcast updates of transition plans for Pupils
Weekly Podcast updates of transition plans for Parents
Fortnightly focused Webinars for detailed transition plans for Pupils
Fortnightly focused Webinars for detailed transition plans for Parents
 

9. This is your opportunity to share your appreciation, thoughts, experiences on how our schools staff team has positively taken the children and their families through Lockdown learning.

 

10. Thank you for taking the time to share your views, thoughts, ideas and experiences.
We will be taking the detail of this survey to influence this school on how we continue to move together through these Lockdown days and beyond;
We very much look forward to our school being busy with teaching and learning again.
Stay positive and stay alert.

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