Parent Partnership Policy

Introduction

At Rowan Tree School, we recognise that parents/ carers play a vital role in education,
learning and development. We believe that when parents are engaged and involved,
everyone benefits: children, parents, families, teachers, schools and communities, and
our school is enriched as a positive place to teach, learn and grow.

Vision
Our vision is that parents are welcomed, respected and valued by the school community
as partners in their children’s learning and development.

Aims

Our aims are to:

 foster and sustain a positive, welcoming school climate in which all parent
perspectives are encouraged, valued and heard
 create clear and positive communication links with parents, where parents know
that they can approach the school with any queries or difficulties and they will
be positively and promptly acted upon
 regularly communicate with parents using a range of media
 provide useful information about the curriculum and practical advice that will
enable parents to support their children’s progress, learning and development
 give parents choices in how they want to be involved with their child’s learning
 work collaboratively with parents in order to implement school policies, e.g.
promoting positive behaviour, healthy snacking, homework and practical aspects
of their child’s education
 identify and remove barriers to parent engagement that may prevent some
parents from fully participating in their children’s learning
 to find appropriate and effective ways to involve parents in school activities
 to provide opportunities for parents to meet and socialise

Objectives

Our objectives are to:

 establish mechanisms such as questionnaires, a visitors book and discussions for

seeking parents’ views on a regular basis
 provide rich opportunities for children and parents to enjoy learning together, at
home and at school
 support parents, where appropriate, in acquiring skills that will enable them to
help their child, such as Signalong, PECS, Healthy Eating.
 offer parents regular and frequent opportunities to talk to staff about their
child’s progress formally and informally and through home visits where applicable
 carefully evaluate the impact of what we do to support parents’ engagement with
their children’s learning.

*We have used the term parents in this policy for all the different carers
 Parent Partnership Policy

Roles and Responsibilities

An important factor in the home-school partnership is the relationship between the

teaching staff and the parent/ carer. Teaching staff are expected to:

 forge positive relationships with the parents of children they teach

 listen to parents and draw on their knowledge of their child when planning how
best to support the child’s learning and development
 share with parents information about what children are learning and about their
progress
 provide opportunities for children and parents to enjoy learning together at
home and at school
 actively seek to celebrate children’s success and achievements together

School leaders will support staff and parents by:

 making themselves accessible to parents, and modelling respectful partnership

 providing professional development opportunities on parental engagement for
staff
 making parental engagement part of performance management for staff
 providing the right conditions for teachers and parents to work together, such
as time for them to have meaningful and private discussions
 ensuring that staff and parents can communicate easily through a range of
accessible media e.g. home school diary and telephone conversations
 ensuring that a range of workshops, support systems for parents are available.
 ensure that, where relevant, parents have access to a range of support services
and professionals including Learning Mentor

The governing body will support parental engagement by:

 monitoring the implementation of this parental engagement policy
 making parental engagement part of performance management for the
headteacher and the Parent Partnership coordinators.
 reporting annually to parents on the steps taken to increase parental
engagement, and their impact.

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Coordinator: Mrs L Browne

Date: 4.2.15

Updated: 4.6.17

*We have used the term parents in this policy for all the different carers