Parent Partnership
We place a high value on establishing close links between home and school so that we can work effectively together enabling each child to achieve their full potential.
We recognise that parents/carers are children’s first and most enduring educators and we value the contribution you make. We involve parents/carers in their child’s learning
by:
- Using the Seesaw app to produce a ‘Learning Journey’ throughout the year that records your child’s learning and achievements during school. This enables family
members to have a window to their child’s learning, giving families an opportunity to provide encouragement. The use of the built-in translation tools help Seesaw posts
cross language barriers to those who do not have English as their first language. You are encouraged to upload photographs and comments on Seesaw to record
children’s achievements out of school. This can support the teacher with assessments. - Offering ‘Stay and Play’ sessions where children have the opportunity to spend time with their parent/carer before starting school.
- Inviting all parents/carers to an induction meeting during the term before their child starts school.
- Encouraging parents/carers to attend the termly parental consultation meetings.
- Sending a report on your child’s attainment and progress at the end of each school year. Through this, parents and carers are informed of their child’s next steps in development just before each of the consultation evenings. This allows for any discussions to take place during the meeting.
- Arranging a range of activities throughout the year that encourage collaboration between child, school and parents/carers including open days and parent workshops
- Opportunity for parents to come in to school once a week and work with child- this is linked to the learning each week.
- Providing children with homework. Children will be encouraged to complete regular phonics and maths based tasks and will be given the opportunity to explore and record at home to further the learning done at school.
- Supporting parents to access to external services to help you with your child at home.
- Providing learning mentor support to parents with issues surrounding their child’s behavior, routines and toilet training.
- Sending home phonetically decodable reading books and library books and encouraging parents to make comments in their child’s reading record.
- Providing parents with extension and support packs to support their child’s learning at home
