Every two years we invite our school community to participate in the ESF Stakeholders Survey. For those parents new to the school it is a survey that is sent out to the community and seeks feedback on a range of areas including leadership, quality of learning, pastoral care and how your child feels about school. The survey is also completed by our Year 4-6 children and all staff.
The ESF Stakeholders Survey will be held in March, 2018 and it is likely we will not be participating in the survey at this time.
Now, obviously this is not because we do not value your feedback! We most certainly do! Usually, Peak School has the highest response rate amongst the Primary and Secondary Schools because we send out constant reminders and almost insist you fill it in! We usually get over 50% of our parents responding compared to the ESF average of around 33%.
The reason we won’t be participating in the ESF Stakeholders Survey in March, 2018 is because we will be asking all stakeholders, including children, to complete the CIS (Council of International Schools) survey instead. As you may recall, back in October, we had a preparatory visit from CIS and the next step is for us to survey our community to ensure we involve everyone in our comprehensive self study. The CIS survey would appear to be more comprehensive (more specific questions) than the ESF Stakeholders survey but as I have not actually seen it, I cannot confirm this.
We will be asking all parents, staff and our Year 4-6 children to complete the CIS survey in January or early February next year. It is for this reason we will not be involved in the ESF Survey in March. We feel it is unnecessary/inappropriate to ask all our stakeholders to complete two surveys, asking similar questions, so close together.
Please keep an eye out for the CIS survey as you will be emailed a link as soon as we are ready to launch it. I can’t confirm the date just for the survey as we are waiting for the CIS survey team to contact us and they will not do this until we have received the preparatory report which we are expecting early next term/late this term.
We will provide more details when we can but at this early stage we just wanted to make you aware of the upcoming stakeholders survey.