Introduction
The Home-School Partnership File allows you to enhance your home-school partnerships, offering everything necessary for teachers communicating with parents. It includes nearly 100 hand outs which are designed to directly encourage parental involvement.
Benefits
The Home School Partnership File will enable you to:
- improve your home school partnerships, offering benefits for you, your pupils and the school as a whole
- benefit from improved communication with parents, who can play a key role as welcome visitors, interested parties, potential helpers, fundraisers, handy experts, informed partners, joint decision-makers or model learners
- access all of the resources you need quickly and easily, saving you valuable time and ensuring vital communications aren’t missed
- empower other members of staff to participate in relationships with parents by having easy access to reproducible resources.
Summary of contents
The Home-School Partnership File is a collection designed to help you with this essential work, giving you all of the resources you need to effectively communicate with parents and help develop successful home-school partnerships.
This material offers both information and advice to parents, comprising a collection of up-to-date hand-outs that can be kept in one place for easy reference and access, and will be a vital aid in your parental partnership development role.
An offshoot of the termly publication Working With Parents, this collection offers you nearly 100 usable hand-outs for disseminating with parents. All of the articles directly address the parents but the use of them will be in your hands. The accompanying CD-Rom gives you the material in Microsoft Word format so that it can be adapted to suit your individual needs – for example, should you want to reproduce it on your own headed paper.
Containing contributions from 27 authors, this collection presents the articles and handouts in three sections:
- Information – key issues explained, terminology clarified, school practices explored, learning processes made clear, backgrounds provided
- Advice – parents and starting school; parents and school life; parents and supporting; parents and active involvement; parents, reading and websites
- Speaking from experience – parent voices.
Chapter breakdown
Section A: Information
What’s all this about...?
National tests
Inclusion
Exclusion
Assessment for Learning
Ofsted
Jargon-buster
Who are these people...?
How schools...
plan school trips
allocate teachers to classes
appoint staff
deal with complaints
cope with tragic events
Children’s learning
An introduction to multiple intelligences
Learning styles
Teaching styles
Family Learning
Extended Schools
Section B: Advice
Starting school
How play helps learning
Personal skills that help learning
An anxious time for children
An anxious time for parents
Preparing for the first day
Getting the best out of...
Parents’ evenings
Extra tuition
An enforced long absence
Your child’s school report
Conversations at home
How to help your child
by making spelling fun
by making writing fun
to settle into a new school
to make friends at school
to get used to a new teacher
to deal with arguments in school
manage her time
to raise their self-esteem
Getting involved in school time
Working with a small group
Helping on a school trip
Getting involved outside school hours
with running a school club
Getting involved when not available in the daytime
Making use of opportunities
Supporting your child’s start at school
Reviews
Recommended websites for children
Recommended books for children
Section C: Speaking from experience
Parent governor at work
Representing other parents
Making a difference to planning
Being the Family Learning link governor
Take it from me – a parent’s angle
on starting school
on walking to school
on setting homework
What’s all this about...?
National tests
Inclusion
Exclusion
Assessment for Learning
Ofsted
Jargon-buster
Who are these people...?
How schools...
plan school trips
allocate teachers to classes
appoint staff
deal with complaints
cope with tragic events
Children’s learning
An introduction to multiple intelligences
Learning styles
Teaching styles
Family Learning
Extended Schools
Section B: Advice
Starting school
How play helps learning
Personal skills that help learning
An anxious time for children
An anxious time for parents
Preparing for the first day
Getting the best out of...
Parents’ evenings
Extra tuition
An enforced long absence
Your child’s school report
Conversations at home
How to help your child
by making spelling fun
by making writing fun
to settle into a new school
to make friends at school
to get used to a new teacher
to deal with arguments in school
manage her time
to raise their self-esteem
Getting involved in school time
Working with a small group
Helping on a school trip
Getting involved outside school hours
with running a school club
Getting involved when not available in the daytime
Making use of opportunities
Supporting your child’s start at school
Reviews
Recommended websites for children
Recommended books for children
Section C: Speaking from experience
Parent governor at work
Representing other parents
Making a difference to planning
Being the Family Learning link governor
Take it from me – a parent’s angle
on starting school
on walking to school
on setting homework
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