Parents’ Evenings
At The Arthur Terry School, Parents’ Evenings are an invaluable opportunity for teaching staff to strengthen the partnership with parents and carers that supports student success. All of our appointments are held online via SchoolCloud using this link https://arthurterry.schoolcloud.co.uk/ This platform makes it easy and convenient for families to engage with teachers as appointments can be held virtually using any online device.
During your appointment, you can expect to discuss your child’s attitude to learning, as well as their most recent academic assessments. Your child’s subject teacher will also discuss the next steps that your child needs to take to ensure success and reach their potential.
Please be reassured that Go4Schools is our most up-to-date source of information about your child’s progress. Here, you can see a detailed overview of your child’s praise, behaviour and attendance data, their recent assessment progress and Attitude for Learning score. Therefore, parents do not need to wait for Parents’ Evenings to find out information in relation to their child’s progress.
We publish the dates of our annual Parents’ Evenings at the start of each academic year in our school calendar and at the bottoms of this page. We also provide a “catch-up” evening to try and ensure any missed appointments can be re-scheduled by teachers, as necessary.
Key Stage 3 appointments are 5 minutes in length, KS4 appointments are 6 minutes and Key Stage 5 appointments are 7 minutes. If you have a specific query likely to last longer than the allocated time then please contact enquiry@arthurterry.bham.sch.uk where we will try to arrange an alternative time for you to address your query with your child’s teacher or Progress Leader.
To maximise the use of each appointment time, if your child is taught by multiple teachers within a subject area, as they are, for example, in Science, you will meet with one “lead teacher” to discuss your child’s progress. This teacher is automatically allocated on the Schoolcloud system.
Appointments are released in advance of each Parents Evening. We urge you to access SchoolCloud at your earliest convenience to book your appointments. If you are unable to book an appointment for a teacher, please ensure that you have added yourself onto their waiting list so the teacher can then allocate you an appointment, should one become available.
Year Group | Date of Parents’ Evening | Date of Catch Up Evening | Length of Appointment | Date bookings will be released on SchoolCloud |
Year 9 (Core subjects only) | 6th May | – | 5 minutes | 22nd April at 7pm |
Year 12 | 20th May | 21st May | 7 minutes | 14th May at 7pm |
Year 8 | 12th June | 11th June | 5 minutes | 5th June at 7pm |
Year 7 | 17th June | 18th June | 5 minutes | 11th June at 7pm |
There is a detailed guide for parents on how to use the system available here :