4. Parents need to hold high aspirations and expectations for their children
and schools need to work in partnership with parents to make their
expectations appropriately high and challenging, and then work in
partnership with children and the home to realise and even surpass these
expectations.
Visible Learning – A synthesis of over 800 meta analyses relating to achievement – John Hattie 2009
Children in a family with a ‘high’ socio economic status will outperform children in
a family with ‘low’ socio economic status by 7months.
Toolkit of Strategies to Improve Learning - Summary for Schools Spending the Pupil Premium - Professor Steve Higgins,
School of Education, Durham University - 2011
The home learning environment and the nature of parental involvement
have a greater influence on achievement than variation in schools.
The Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievements and Adjustment: A
Literature Review - Professor Charles Desforges with Alberto Abouchaar
17. Look back with pride
and forward with
confidence!
Cotgrave CCaannddlleebbyy LLaannee SScchhooooll
18. Discussion
How do you support the Whole Child
beyond the classroom?
How do you engage parents to support
the Whole Child?
How does your curriculum support the
Whole Child?
Cotgrave CCaannddlleebbyy LLaannee SScchhooooll
Editor's Notes
Cotgrave rural, super pit, large number of social housing. Pit disappeared, social issues developed. High un employment, crime deprivation.
Divide in the village.
3 schools, pit kids non pit kids. Contributing to the divice.
Decision to amalgamate. Old School
New School, lovely facilitaty
Pete
Paul
Key to raising aspirations getting parents engaged and involved. 3 stage process
Involvement – parents eve, PTA, informal – one way
Support – how can we support parent so to ensure they are best placed to support their child
This leads to true partnership where school and parents are working closely together to ensure children achieve – AFA, homework, more targetted conversations
Parental engagement single biggest determinant of attainment. In our community where parents may not have had a good experience working with parents is crucial
Working with parents 3 levels, engagement (involvement), support, partners.
First level engagement. About getting them through the door, building relationships and helping them to see school in a positive light.
Social events, change perceptions of school. Film nights, blockbuster, cineworld and licensed bar.
Family breakfast - started off as just a breakfast for engagement.
Afternoon Tea – link to SIP
Family Lunch, taken over the running, straight away see this as a vehicle for parental engagement.
Open session, open the classroom let parents in. Assemblies, we have too many.
Farm, clean up, volunteers
Only with those informal ops to come into school will be able to offer support to parents.
Family Learning, Carrot to get them in, family skate plus
Adult Learning, Formalised progs
Parenting progs, built into the above, also evidence based parenting progs.
Increasing support through curriculum progs. Saw today linked to breakfast, also run open sessions linked to family lunch. Direct link to outcomes as if parents understand what is happening in their childs classroom better equiped to support them.
On site to directly support our parents, job centre plus, citizens advice
Apprenticeships, op to support parents, not something we are doing, but an opportunity.
Parental voice, centre of developments. Suggestion box, open door policy, emails shared
Friends of Candleby Lane, driving community events, raising funds.
Twitter
APP soon and poss facebook.
Parents forum, representatives of the school. In the process of setting up
Parent volunteers, supporting our school.
Inputting into key developments. Allotment.
Utilising skills in curriculum time etc.
Homework, often a barrier for parents, anti parental engagement. Policy should reflect views of parents and could homework be used as a tool to engage and support parents?
Range of ops: radio club, music sport
Delivered by…… 38 orgs, open 8- 9.00, avaialble to whole community
Staff expected to engage, part of recruitement…. Duvet days
Meeting the needs
Not just an add on, a nice of school. Extends values, extends learning meets needs kids and community,
Radio club…. Speaking and listening, gospel choir, music
Funding….. Me2 (PUPIL PREMIUM), music…. Instrument loaning, exam…supporting families
Horse riding, support to not just access but equipement to particate
Childrens uni… raising aspirations
Pete
Candleby Life, innovative, whole school alternative curriculum. Aim to give real life experiences, to enable them to raise aspirations and prepare for the real world
Monday Afternoon
Years 1-6 stop classroom curriculum and engage in Candleby Life
Real Life Experience Preparation for the real world
Skills, Community, Enterprise.
Rigour, Progression in skills and direct ties to the curriculum
KS1, staff led, skill based.
KS2, community involvement, 2/3 of the kites.
36 activities. Small groups 8-12.
Signed up through recruitment week, FORMAL INTERVIEW PROCESS, to then participate for 8 weeks within a term
Governing Body, overseas whole programme. Children as leaders
Organising celebration event.
Act as business mentors and the dragons den
Businesses. ,
Café, Woodwork (3 saws), Jazzy Jewlery, Hair and Beauty, Spoken Authors, Cup Cake, Tenner Team – Dragons den
Create a business, work with EON , a plan, roles, market research, costings, profit margin. Etc
Present to Dragons, secure funds
Work through a certain skill to make product, contribution from outside to work with the skill. Woodwork and Joiner.
Once made they sell it at open event
Country Park Rangers, Wildlife Trust, Country Park, Local Volunteers.
Getting to know local area, make a positive contribution to it volunteers.
Wildlife Watcher, art based programme tied to RSPB.
Eaton Park, Care Home
Knitting Group
Young First Aiders, St Johns Ambulance. Qualification. Similar in KS1.
Knitting
Leadership qualifications – Hilary group aspiration
Results of all of this, is children now raised aspirations, developing skills that translate back into the classroom and have a community behind us determined to succeed.
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