Building Parent School Partnerships
Have a holiday over Easter!!!!
If we are in Alternate Education Provisions after Easter, then take small steps
Set up routines for children and families to guide the learning opportunities at home
Display the routine – visual images OR written words (may depend up age group)
Set up learning space at home where possible (Some schools are giving away surplus desks and chairs)
Set small goals to be achieved each session, or day
Understand the learning platforms that schools are using to distribute messages
Messages will include:
- Curriculum content and ideas
- Well-being messages
- Feedback to children
- Updates on schooling plans (as directed by Education authorities)
- Check in on children’s progress and welfare
Learn platforms for engaging with schools may include:
- MS Teams; OneNote; OneDrive
- Many schools may have their own e-learning platforms
School teachers should still be delivering the curriculum. It may not be the full curriculum. Certainly the basics will continue.
Learning opportunities at home includes:
- reading = anything and have written response inc drawing
- cooking = Maths, measurement, counting, estimating, predicting
- gardening = science, lifecycles, growth, important things about life
- Computer games inc fortnite – design construction either on-line or with boxes
Expect reduced hours of learning engagement at home. (When children are at school they are engaged in approximately 5hrs of classroom work, plus eating and play breaks.)
- Give children mental and physical breaks
- Give yourself mental and physical breaks.
It is important to achieve success with the children, celebrate and keep going.
- Keep checking in with your child’s friends
- Keep checking in with your parent networks
- Keep checking in with extended family members – share the children’s successes with relatives. This may motivate the children to keep working.
Monitor your own calm levels – if they get elevated, stop and share the workload around.
Parents will need to share the workload with each other.
Single parents may need other networks to share the load.
Teachers and parents – this is all new so be kind to each other – children will still learn ?
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