Recently our school invited parents to visit the school during the day to see the school “in action”.
During the week, parents were given the opportunity to accompany members of the senior management team during observations of lessons. This initiative had been prompted by the findings of the Ofsted parental questionnaire where one of the main concerns raised by many parents was bad behaviour, and its potentially adverse effect on learning.
The fact that some parents thought that behaviour was a problem at the school concerned me. I was only too aware that the school had, in the past, had a reputation for poor behaviour.
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