Involved Parents, Improved Pupils

Description

Why parental involvement is so important

Explore outstanding examples of evidence to:

• raise achievement

• contribute to leaders’ vision

Involve parents to enrich the curriculum

The ultimate guide to exploiting parents’ expertise

How you can make your school more attractive to parents

Explore the barriers to parental involvement

Embed a positive approach to parent voice

Promote at-home talk with parents

Use parents to build community links

Investigate parental involvement in homework

Work with parents to develop growth mindsets in pupils

Best-practice examples to effectively engage all parents

• Ideas to develop a strategy for parental involvement

• Examples of involving parents and Project Based Learning

• Techniques to engage parents

• Strategies to minimise the barriers to involvement

• Ways to adopt an in-school and at-home ethos to raise aspirations