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. We’ve listed just a few ways that parents/carers can support and get involved in the School, but we always welcome further ideas or suggestions.

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.

Here you can find information to the latest events at the School.

Throughout the year, UoB School is intentional and proactive around providing up to date and relevant information to families about how well their child is doing. Please read through the below FAQs document which outlines how and where we communicate information to you around academic attainment and progress, attendance, behaviour, and more, with useful links for you to engage with.

Frequently Asked Questions.

Click here to read a summarised version of the above document.

Year 13 – 04 December 2024

Year 12 – 10 February 2025

Year 11 – 27 February 2025

Year 10 – 08 April 2025

Year 9 – 10 March 2025

Year 8 – 26 March 2025

Year 7 – 01 May 2025

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.

Homework is an important feature of supporting the learning of our pupils. Homework supports the learning taking place in lessons and helps consolidate class work. Homework can often help to ensure pupils are ready for their next lesson. The Education Endowment Foundation have conducted studies which show that homework has a significant positive impact on a child’s education.

We recognise that many pupils can find organising and completing homework challenging. To support with this, we are introducing Homework Clubs to help support pupils and families with this:

Breakfast Homework Club

• 08.00 – 08.45 every day
• Pupils must sign in at main reception
• Pupils must join line up as usual at 08.45
• A free breakfast of toast, fruit, and juice will be provided
• Pupils should bring their homework with them to complete

After School Homework Club

• 15.45 – 16.30 every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
• Pupils must sign in at the Library
• Pupils in detention must go to detention
• Pupils should bring their homework with them to complete

All of us can feel overwhelmed at times. Looking after ourselves physically can not only benefit our bodies and make us healthier, it can also have a great impact upon our mental wellbeing.

Our health and wellbeing page has an number of resources sharing ways in which we can all stay active and healthy – with information for pupils, students and a dedicated ‘parent/carer corner.’

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.

We welcome opportunities for pupils and students from the University of Birmingham, members of our local community and parents and carers to contribute to our enrichment and academic programmes through volunteering, assemblies or by becoming a Community Champion. If you’d like to hear more about any of these opportunities please contact us by emailing reception@uobschool.org.uk.