Introduction to About Schools

Welcome to About Schools! The ongoing purpose of these blog posts is to provide parents and carers with a real insight into how schools work, written by the people who lead and work in education. We are all parents or carers ourselves and are all passionate about the importance of parental engagement to a child’s academic success in English schools. All of us have been classroom teachers, alongside a myriad of other roles in schools, academy trusts and other education-focused organisations. Rest-assured we know how schools work and how best we can support parents and carers in engaging with them. The blog posts you will see over the coming weeks, months and years will reflect this experience and provide you with some up-to-date information on how best to support your child.

We feel there is a genuine need for this. In our experience, too frequently schools and parents are not collaborating effectively. More often than not, this is due to a lack of understanding or an absence of key information. A gap that we hope to fill.

We are very proud of this endeavour, and have worked hard to ensure that the information we provide is as accurate and as useful as possible. Alongside regular blog posts, we will be expanding and updating the main website to help you navigate the complexities of the English School system.

As always, if you have any queries or would like to enquire about our bespoke services, please do get in touch. If you do find the information on the site or contained in these blogs useful, do please share them. They are, after all, designed to support you and your child!

Sural Bhanshaly

Founder of About Schools