Welcome to the Haywood Grove Friends

We will be holding  meetings of Haywood Grove Friends twice a term.  The meetings are held at school.

At Haywood Grove we aim to be a friendly and warm community with a family feel. It is important that all our children and their families feel part of the bigger Haywood Grove family and this is the main purpose of the Haywood Grove Friends.

Our second important aim is to raise funds to support our children in school through the purchase of resources and activities that enrich their enjoyment of learning, preparing them for life now and in the future.

The vision for the ‘Haywood Grove Friends’ is that it will be dedicated to building, promoting and strengthening the school community as well as fostering a sense of togetherness by:

• Providing informal support and a listening ear for our parents/carers
• Providing opportunities for our parents/carers to build friendships, to socialise and establish wider support networks
• Strengthening home/school links and enabling parents/carers on any policy changes or initiatives that we are thinking of introducing in the school
• Demonstrating the value of parents’/carers’ contributions and providing an alternative way for parents/carers to have a voice
• Building links between staff and parents/carers
• Fundraising to provide improved provision for all our children

We expect that all members of the Haywood Grove Friends School Community: staff, parents/carers, family members, governors to be ‘Haywood Grove Friends’ and as such will encourage them to play their part in developing this into a thriving and effective group.