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Teach Talk: Working with parents to raise attainment
- 1. Working with parents to raise attainment Paget High Richard Blaize, Head of ICT Portway Infant School Katy Lynas, Teacher Rosemary Harper, Teacher St Clement Danes School Tom Phillips, Network Manager Teach Talks
- 3. School Background • Approx. 1000 pupils and 60 staff • Average Daily Unique Log Ons 1300 • Christmas Day 2012 over 200 log ons Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 4. • Revision website accessible to pupils, staff and parents • The website has its own URL allowing for access without going through Frog Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 5. • Examination Timetable • Start times, Examination title, Exam board, Duration and Room Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 6. • All subjects have their own page • Each page is built to allow departments to add/remove content as and when • Overall design and navigation remains intact Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 8. Richard Blaize @richardblaize Twitter Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 9. • Using Twitter to publicise the revision website and each individual examination • Tweets give the examination information the day before the exam and the day of the exam Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 10. • Parents and pupils use Twitter to ask messages about examinations and request material to appear on the revision website Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 11. Richard Blaize @richardblaize I Am Learning Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 12. • ‘I Am Learning’ has been added to the revision website during the year • Using ‘I Am Learning’ Year 11 have revised for almost 700 hours Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 13. Richard Blaize @richardblaize Hints, Tips and Advice Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 14. • Advertise, advertise, advertise – letters, parents evenings, newsletter, school WWW • Give the website its own URL • Allow staff to manage content and advise on use • Recommend the use of PDF documents • When tweeting avoid using terms like ‘today’ or ‘tomorrow’ be specific with the tweets • If you receive a tweet reply to it ASAP • Retweet examinations from other accounts Richard Blaize @richardblaize
- 15. Working with parents to raise attainment • Portway Infant School, Derby.
- 16. Background info • Portway Infant School, Derby • 235 children on roll • _ without internet access / computer at home.
- 17. Engaging parents – non technological techniques • Infant school relies on the engagement of parents • Take home Tuesday • Coffee mornings • Information and curriculum meetings • Parents evenings and reports • Ten minute ‘welcome’ time in the classroom each morning.
- 18. Engaging parents – technological techniques • Website, more for prospective parents • Text messaging service • Learning platform – main platform for communication with parents, relevant information for parents within class sites amongst the main school information forum. • Message to teacher, emails.
- 19. Learning from the past; Sharepoint Parents Staff Children can’t be independent Unreliable Too much time Too much time I am going to miss important information Not easy to upload - multiple docs Too many clicks An extra job, parents still need paper Unreliable – down at weekend Corporate site Not like sites children want to use Not infant friendly – not how we teach Where can I get help? Used folder structure beyond belief!
- 20. What we were looking for;FROG Essential Desirable Infant friendly – pictures, videos and more pictures. WOW factor Reduce page clicks Potential for independence Easy access to passwords Easy to get around – parents and children Alternative to folders Reliable
- 21. Key advice – what the staff think • (Hopefully little video clips to go here!)
- 22. Implementation – how it works for us • Staff confidence first! • Staff meetings and training • Team work • Support • Amend policy • Chocolate bribes! • Children and parents use same username • Raise enthusiasm within classroom • Incite curiosity – and introduce bribes (teddy) • Sustain interest (school and home) • Offer support
- 23. Raising attainment – continuing learning at home • (Screen shots to be moved into a few slides to show activities to continue learning at home and for parents support – ensuring we all support children in the same way with lit and maths for example.) • 4 screen shots
- 24. Frog Conference 2013 St Clement Danes School Working with parents to raise attainment
- 25. Frog at St Clement Danes • Frog installed 2009 • Used well throughout the school • Developing Parental Portal • Looking to move towards Frog OS
- 26. Parental Portal – Benefits and Drawbacks • Benefits – Parents feel more included – Information is readily available to parents – Cut down on admin work – Staff encourage to promote good behaviour/achievements • Drawbacks – Data needs to be correct, up to date and stay up to date – Additional work load?
- 27. Parental Portal – Engaging parents • What would parents want to see? – Childs information: • Assessment – Achievements • Timetable • Attendance • Reports • Frog Activity – School information: • What’s happening/events • Ways to contact the school – careful!
- 28. Parental portal – Focus • Assessment / Attendance – MIS database – Sims.net – Aspects – Subjects – Information to display – Graphs, Tables, IF statements for key stages
- 29. Parental portal - Journey • Portal template supplied by Frog. • Bulk of time was spent on this. Check MIS Aspects and tidy MIS system. • Frog Extractor setup but no data pulled over yet. • Data pulled across, we checked how it was displayed and configured our Frog template. • Displayed data that was confusing was removed. • IF statements setup to segment Key stage data. • Staff parents were given logon details. • Bugs and Feedback was received and adjustments made. Parental portal template Check and Update MIS Extract and Interpret Data Configure and Simplify Data Test with Staff parents
- 30. Parental portal – Next steps • We plan to release the portal to a single year group for a full academic year to test how well it is received. • Feedback from this will determine the next step. • Our overall aim is to give all students parents the ability to use the parental portal over the next few academic years. Release to Single Year group Stagger full release
- 31. Parental Portal – Raising Attainment • Parents can see information about their child quicker and in more detail. Information is not lost in transit or mislaid. • Parents can then address issues and identify areas where their pupils at the school can improve. • Parents can track progress over previous months or years quickly and spot trends that might otherwise not be apparent. • A lot of the work a parent would have to do in order to get a clear overview of how a student is doing is done within the parental portal.