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Parental engagement
Browse the resources below to find out how you can improve parental involvement and work collaboratively with parents and carers to secure better pupil outcomes.
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Managing internal and external communications is key in protecting staff wellbeing and workload. Mike Lamb suggests what to include in a communications policy to manage expectations
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Kelly Hannaghan explains how engaging parents has improved wellbeing for her school community, changed lives and highlighted the power of connection
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How can schools successfully work with parents to manage pressures on pupils? Mike Lamb provides strategies to help develop realistic expectations and a three-way partnership
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Developing successful relationships with parents based abroad is key in helping pupils settle in. Mike Lamb offers suggestions to overcome common barriers and form successful relationships
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Sending an annual questionnaire to parents and carers helps track progress, set targets and engage parents in supporting their child’s development. Ruchi Sabharwal provides an example template to use
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Over-engaged parents can be challenging for schools to work with. Fiona Carnie offers ways for schools and parents to build and maintain successful relationships
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Steve Baker provides tips and a tool to enable clear, effective interaction between school and home
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Alan Mackenzie provides an e-safety briefing sheet for safeguarding leads to share with parents, to help them keep their children safe online
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Effective parental engagement supports pupil learning and can help bridge the attainment gap. Suzanne O’Connell finds out how a school engages parents to improve achievement
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Supporting parents and families is vital to the work of Aldermoor Farm School. Headteacher Ann Stacey shares ways they work together to remove barriers to learning