There are many ways of being a parent at Frensham. The degree of involvement is for you to determine. The tutors are highly experienced in managing the needs and varied personalities of childhood, through adolescence and young adulthood. The knowledge that one such team is there, to look out for your child, could mean that our weekly e-mail telling you what's going on is the limit of what you need when taken alongside reports and parents' evenings. 

Some of you may want to become an elected representative on the Parents' Committee and thus part of one of the school's important consultative groups. Others derive a great deal of pleasure from immersing themselves in the fund-raising group, Friends of Frensham. Don't worry if you live overseas, or do not often have the chance to visit the school, and feel you may not know anyone. The informality, which is the keynote here, will surmount this. 

However you choose to establish your relationship with us, remember we are always here to talk over your particular concerns, or to share our experience of looking after children and teenagers. 

Not the least virtue of being a Frensham parent is the parent-teacher discussion evenings.  Remembering some of us have rushed straight from work there's a roaring log fire, wine to ease the transition from "work" to "parent" mode and delicious food to make quite sure we aren't grumpy. And these evenings are run with  a precision that is outside my experience, as a result of which you can see everyone in a reasonable, and organized, space of time. Then, if you wish to continue the conversation, the way is open to do so at a later date."