Information for Parents
We value your support for your child's flourishing at University of Birmingham School.
Parent/carer involvement in a child’s education can be one of the most pivotal areas of influence. We value your support for your child’s flourishing at University of Birmingham School. Below are a few useful documents and links to help us support you and ways in which you can get involved with the School.
Stay in touch with us
We encourage all parents and carers to keep in touch with our news via our website and social media activity (Facebook, X, and Instagram). We have a regular programme of events which parents, carers and families are invited to including termly music concerts, school fairs, and college events. There are many ways the School keeps families up to date. Email is the primary method of communication, and you can also find information on:
Examination & Assessment Weeks
If you have any concerns, we ask families to make contact with their child’s form tutor in the first instance, who will either respond themselves or will co-ordinate a response from the relevant and appropriate member of staff. It is usually easiest to email the form tutor directly. Contact details of your child’s form tutor will have been circulated at the start of term. We ask staff to reply to families within 2 working days. However, please be mindful that teachers will have teaching commitments throughout the teaching day. We want our teachers to be fully engaged teaching their lessons and not responding to emails whilst teaching, so this can cause email responses to take slightly longer. Your understanding and patience with this is much appreciated.
Parents’ Evenings
Year 13 – 26 November 2025
Year 12 – 10 February 2026
Year 11 – 15 December 2025
Year 10 – 02 March 2026
Year 9 – 12 March 2026
Year 8 – 29 April 2026
Year 7 – 14 May 2026
ClassCharts
We are grateful to parents and carers for supporting pupils and students in getting into good learning habits. Good learning habits include making time to read every day for 20 minutes, spending between 30-60 minutes on home learning tasks (for Year 7-9), and encouraging your child to make time to have a break and relax! All homework is recorded on Class Charts, for which both parents, carers, and pupils have an account. On here, you can see all homework for your child, along with issue and due dates.
View Parent/Carer ClassCharts User Guide (which also includes FAQs and Troubleshooting information).
Knowledge Organisers are powerful learning resources – they help pupils to consolidate their learning and revise for any upcoming assessments. Please click here to download a guide to help your child to use their knowledge organiser to its full potential. You can also access your child’s knowledge organiser here.
GCSEPod
GCSEPod is an exceptionally useful, free, resource for all pupils. It contains short podcasts directly linked to your child’s study. Please login here.
Instructions for accessing GCSEPod are here. Pupils should use their school email and password using their Office365 log-in by clicking on the orange buttons detailed in the instructions. A short video with further explanations for GCSEPod is available here.
The School Parent Teacher Association
The Friends of University of Birmingham School is the School’s PTA and is open to all parents and carers of pupils and students at UoB School, as well as all staff. Our aim is to create a cooperative environment for events and activities for the entire School community.
The Friends would love to hear from parents and carers who may be interested in getting involved with the group. Please email the group at friends@uobschool.org.uk or find us on Facebook.
