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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Partnership with Parents, Carers & the Community
© NACE 2012
Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Aims
To explore ways of involving Parents and Carers in supporting their child’s potential
To consider how links with the local community and a range of external groups and organisations can be a resource for MAT pupils
To discuss the benefits and models of mentoring schemes
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Developing a partnership with Parents and Carers
Use a ‘PMI’ technique to explore perceptions and ideas
Feedback Discussion
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
PMI
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E.g.What are the positives/ benefits of working in partnership with Parents/Carers?How are we capturing and capitalising on these opportunities?
E.g.What are our key concerns about working in partnership with Parents/Carers?
E.g.What interesting points emerged about working in partnership with Parents/Carers?How are we capturing and capitalising on these opportunities?
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
The power of Parents/Carers in children’s achievement through:
Encouraging a variety of interests Showing sensitivity to children’s interests Helping children to discover the fun of learning Judging when to intervene, when to apply pressure
and when to stand back Working in partnership with, and trusting, the school
(Charles Desforges)
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
How to involve Parents and Carers
Identification of learners’ abilities, talents and skills Providing Parents/Carers with information about e.g.
curriculum assessment and data Encouraging Parents/Carers to give practical support
to their own children
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
How to involve Parents/Carers
Audit parental skills/talents Using parental skills to support learning e.g.
facilitating extra curricular clubs, ICT, running parental forums, PTAs, mini enterprise etc.
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Community involvement
‘Business and industry can make a valuable contribution to the education of MAT Students’
(Curriculum of Opportunity 2003)
Why could external organisations be of use? How could we use our knowledge of local business
and industry to help our learners?
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Community involvement
For example: Local Experts Clubs Societies Associations Charities Library Museum....
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Collaborative Links
School to school partnerships between and within phases
FE Colleges and Universities National and international links Children’s University
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Mentoring
‘Many successful adults have been influenced and
inspired by working with a mentor, able to offer wisdom
and expertise. Mentors can provide a valuable
exchange of ideas, coaching to levels of excellence,
support and encouragement to persevere. The
mentoring relationship need not only be with an adult
mentor, older pupils can mentor younger pupils very
effectively.’(Curriculum of Opportunity 2003)
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Success Criteria
Parents/Carers feel more involved and able to support their child and the school
Local community involved in the school’s MAT provision
Established links with other providers Mentoring scheme in place
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Going further
Refer to PMI outcomes and discussion outcomes What else do we need to do? What priorities emerge
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Aspiration Ability & Achievement
Dyhead, Dawn a Chyrhaeddiad
Partnership with Parents, Carers and the Community
Success Criteria
Parents/Carers feel involved and able to support their child and the school
Local community involved in the school’s MAT provision
Established links with other providers Mentoring scheme in place