Termly Learning Conferences (TLCs) have replaced the traditional parent’s evenings and are a three-way conversation about the progress and learning of your child. They are a fantastic opportunity to find out about your child’s learning from both your child and their teachers.

During your TLC, your child will show you a piece of work that they have chosen to talk about with you. They will talk to you about their successes as well as their next steps in their learning. The class teacher will support them with this conversation as well as offering advice and support on ways they will be helping your child towards their targets in school and ways you can help at home.

Termly Learning Conferences are a three-way conversation about the progress and learning of your child. They are a fantastic opportunity to find out about your child’s learning from both your child and their teachers. TLCs are inclusive in nature and designed to be used with all children. 

We believe and research supports that children who understand themselves as learners will make better progress and achieve more. The TLCs have therefore been carefully designed so that the emphasis is around developing a shared language for learning between pupils, their teachers and parents/carers.  As such, the TLC is designed to go beyond a purely ‘academic’ review of standards and progress, as it also provides an opportunity to identify factors which help or hinder progress and achievement.

TLCs enable parents and carers to support their children’s progress by ensuring that they are informed about the learning skills that are being taught and developed at Newlands Spring Primary and Nursery School and plan ways in which those skills can be practised and nurtured outside the school environment. As a result parents/carers are better informed about how they can support their children’s learning. Therefore TLCs complement and nurture a helpful partnership with parents/carers.

Regular communication between teachers and parents/carers is vital; however the TLCs are not designed to be a place to discuss particular worries or concerns that you may have.

If you have any concerns or questions about your child at any point in the term, please do not hesitate to call as quickly as possible and make an appointment with your child’s class teacher in order for us to address such issues immediately as these will not be included within the TLC format.

TLCs are held in the Autumn and Spring Term, with an Open Evening in the Summer Term.

You can book your TLC appointment online  using the icon below or by calling the school office . 

Further Information

 A parents guide to booking TLC appointments online may be found here 

Please click on the image below for a video on TLCs