School Advisory Council

Parent feedback is vital to improve and evolve key school processes and enhance each family’s school experience.  Thank you to those families who completed our second Termly Parent Survey at the beginning of this term, which focused on Communication.

Below are the forms of communication currently used, together with their purpose:

• SkoolBag App - for information, updates and reminders about school and Parents & Friends activities
• School Google Calendar - all events/activities listed and accessed through the school website  
• Operoo - for important school information regarding school activities requiring parental permission or a response
• School Fortnightly Newsletters - important information/updates on all school activities
• Level Fortnightly Newsletters - information on all classroom learnings for the period
• Class WhatsApp Group - parent run groups to provide reminders on school events

Effective communication is important to any school.  Holy Family want to continue to ensure our forms, mode and timeliness of communication is most useful to our community, and the overall quality of communication is at a high standard.  In doing this, our community will stay connected and valued.  

The Survey was open for nearly 5 weeks, closing on Friday 14th October 2022.  In order to assure anonymity, responses were analysed as aggregate data and not at the individual level.  The analysis presented therefore does not identify any one person or family.

Survey context

Responses were received from 20 families at Holy Family.  These were evenly spread across Yrs 1-6, with 1 response from Prep.  Families who started in 2018 had the highest response rate (6 out of 20).

Key takeaways and action items

Skoolbag, Operoo and whatsapp groups are the most popular and most highly valued forms of communication.  The amount of communication distributed to the community is deemed ‘perfect’, and overall communication is useful and of quality.  

Below are some action items the school will put in place for 2023.

• Yearly events:
  • Google calendar will continue to be maintained.  
  • A yearly calendar for the upcoming year will be sent out at the end of the year prior, with updates issued at the end of each term (or beginning of next).
• Fortnightly Level Newsletters:
  • A new mode of communication this year and have proven successful.  
  • Teachers will look to include photos and consider ways to disseminate curriculum information to support student learning from home.  
  • Additionally, teachers will ensure consistency around dates and events between these level curriculum newsletters. 
• Social media:
  • The school will ensure what is posted on social media covers all levels and curriculum areas.