Parent Partnership
At The City of Leicester College we value and recognise the importance of parental involvement in the life of the school.
Throughout our website the term parent is used to refer to parents, guardians and carers. We believe that education is a collaborative enterprise involving amongst others, parents, staff and children. As a school we are therefore committed to establishing and maintaining an effective and purposeful working relationship between the school and home.
Parent Drop-in Sessions
We are not only dedicated to helping our students - but we would like to offer support and guidance for parents by use of weekly drop-in sessions. Parent drop-in sessions will be run by our college leadership team who will be available every Wednesday morning between 8:30am and 9:45am in the main reception to answer any of your questions.
Parental Information Evening
We held our first Parental Information Evening on Wednesday 6th September 2023. It was a great chance to share some of our success stories; how we approach teaching and learning and; the huge number of pastoral provisions we offer as a school. The main aim was to help parents understand better how we work and then understand how they can support their child to be even more successful. The presentations were well received and the college leadership team were able to have lots of great conversations with parents at the end of the evening. If you were unable to attend or did attend and want a reminder of anything that was covered, the presentations are available below for you to view.
Parents, Teachers & Friends Association (PTFA)
Thursday 14th December 2023
On Thursday 14th December 2023, we hosted our first parent forum; thank you to all who attended. We discussed new school policy, future agenda items and the creation of a TCOLC PTFA. We will send out details of our Spring term forum in February.
Thursday 7th March 2024
Thank you to the many parents, carers and staff who came to our second forum held on Thursday 7th March 2024. Please find the resources below.
Our next meeting in June will be the AGM to form our PTFA ‘Friends of TCOLC’, please do get in touch with Mrs Hurdley-Lees, if you have any ideas of key aims or how you can support the committee.
Thursday 20th June 2024
Our first 'Friends of TCOLC' AGM was held on Thursday 20th June and we are now all members of our PTFA.
Thursday 3rd October 2024
Our first 'Friends of TCOLC' meeting, of the 2024/25 academic year, was held on Thursday 3rd October. Thank you to all that attended.
Tuesday 25th March 2025
The 'Friends of TCOLC' committee met to discuss fundraising ideas. Since starting last June we have become a registered charity and we have been steadily been making money through online donations, refreshments on a saturday morning and through our activities in school. This was one key aim, but our others were to bring the community together at TCOLC and to raise awareness about life-long learning opportunities. To support that we have two big activities coming up:
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14th May, 5:00pm - 7:00pm - a community education evening. More information below.
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7th June - a football community fun day. More details to follow soon.
Wednesday 14th May 2025
We are proud to host the Central Coop and the Workers Education Association for a community information and education evening on the 14th May from 5-7pm. This event is open to all, and food and drink will be provided by the Coop.
This is a chance to learn about key issues impacting our children’s lives and we will also advertise what opportunities the WEA can offer for lifelong learning.
The entire community is invited so please come along!
How Can You Help
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Any help/volunteers at events would be much appreciated
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Please join/login to EasyFundraising if you are planning on shopping online as it will give us a small percentage each time
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Donate directly to our fundraising page via JustGiving
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Suggest any fund raising ideas to us or ways you think would be useful to spend it
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Sign up for a challenge (marathon/skydiving) and use us as your fundraising charity
If you can offer your ideas, time or support in any way, please do get in touch with the PTFA committee via email or by telephone 0116 2413984.
Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support.
Mrs Hurdley-Lees (Chair) Mr Whiting (Treasurer) Miss Garcha (Secretary)
