Dear Parent/Carer,
We would like to invite you to attend our Parent/Carer Consultation Session taking place on 17 April 2024.
· 3:00pm - 4:06pm: Online Appointments via SchoolCloud
· 4:25pm - 6:55pm: Face-to-Face Appointments in School
We are continuing to use SchoolCloud to facilitate our online appointment booking system. You are able to choose your own appointment times with teachers and you will receive an email from SchoolCloud confirming your appointments.
Once more we are offering a ‘hybrid’ version of the event. The first part of the evening will be online, and the second part of the evening will be in school, face-to- face.
You can either make appointments to meet your child's subject teachers online during the earlier part of the evening, or you can make appointments to come into school for the later part of the evening and meet your child's teachers face-to-face. The evening is, in effect, being split into two. You will note that, in response to parent/carer preference, the face-to-face part of the evening has more appointments available than the earlier online part of the evening.
The booking system will be open from 8 March and the booking system will close at noon on 15 April. Should you wish to make any changes after this date, please contact the school and ask for Mrs Chirnside or email her at cchirnside@jesmondparkacademy.org.uk
As was the system last year, the appointments will fill up on a strictly first-come-first- served basis. If your schedule allows, you can book appointments for both the online and in-person sessions. Please contact Mrs Chirnside if you need further guidance on this.
Please note:
- Not all teachers are available for this event. If a teacher you wish to see is not on your list of staff to book, please contact them independently via email and they will be happy to provide feedback.
- If you wish to discuss primarily any pastoral or welfare matters, you can book an appointment with Mrs H Hearons (Year 8 Manager). If you wish to discuss academic matters, Miss L Sayers (Head of Year 8) will be available on a drop-in basis when she is not seeing the parent/carers of the students she teaches.
- Our SENCO will be available on a drop-in basis during the in-school session of the event. If you are unable to attend this session and wish to speak to someone from our SENCO team, please contact school.
- Online appointments will be 5 minutes in duration and will cut off automatically after that time.
- Face-to-Face appointments are also strictly 5 minutes in duration. This ensures that there are sufficient appointment slots available for all parents/carers to make with each teacher. As detailed above, the appointments fill up on a strictly first- come-first-served basis and some teachers do become full.
- The maximum number of appointments you can book is twelve.
- If you require any other help or information regarding how to set your appointments up please contact Mrs Chirnside at cchirnside@jesmondparkacademy.org.uk
HOW TO BOOK
Please visit https://jesmondparkacademy.schoolcloud.co.uk to book your appointments.
You will need to log-in with the following information exactly as shown in the personalised letter that has been given to your child. Any deviation from the spellings, or extra spaces will result in an error:
Parent Title Parent Forename:
Parent Surname:
Student First Name:
Student Surname:
Student Date of Birth:
Please contact Mrs Chirnside (CChirnside@jesmondparkacademy.org.uk) if you have not received your letter. The link below provides guidance on how to attend the online appointments.
https://bit.ly/3IoOKYq
For online appointments, the system can used on mobile phones, PCs, and tablets. For in-school appointments, please report to our Main Reception to sign in, and then through to our Main Hall and/or Restaurant for your face-to-face appointments.
For both the online appointments and the in-school appointments, we would strongly encourage wherever possible for your child to attend the appointment.
We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to speak to your child’s subject teachers, not only to find out more about their progress, but also to discuss any matters that may help us to support them.
We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to speak to your child’s subject teachers, not only to find out more about their progress, but also to discuss any matters that may help us to support them.
As always we will endeavour, wherever we can, to accommodate all parent/carer appointment requests within this hybrid system. As we have said above, if you have any further queries regarding the organisation of this evening please contact cchirnside@jesmondparkacademy.org.uk
Yours sincerely,
Mr N Holmes
Deputy Principal Curriculum