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Letters To Parents: The first question is best answered by the concept of 'net spreading': if your first 'net' (the initial meeting) fails to 'catch' all the parents, there should be a series of others waiting to be employed. Further letters and a variety of follow-up meetings, contacting parents at die school gate, sending personal mes¬sages through the children, inviting parents to the school for individual talks widi the class teacher or head, asking the school's education welfare officer to call on the parents for a chat about the school's new scheme - all these make for a progressively finer 'mesh'.
When they are complete, the record cards can go into the child's permanent school record, to which they provide a useful and informative addition. You will find that staff meet¬ings are valuable from time to time to discuss the upkeep of the cards and how to develop strategies to make them increasingly useful. Some schools also write letters to parents at the end of each term and/or the beginning of a new one, thanking them for keeping the cards up during the term and encouraging them to do so in the coming term. These letters may tell the parents the school's latest thinking on how the record-card system is developing, and ask if they have any comments to make on this themselves.See Also Parents Loomed:The growing middle-class aped their betters and perpetuated the system, supporting the schools which provided their sons with entry into the promised land. Parents loomed large in the reality of many children's and young people's lives. Not respecting their authority threatened a future of poverty and alienation, wit¬nessed in the miserable lives of many around them (from whom their own wealth often sprung) and mirrored in the stories of the time. Anthony Trollope's long saga, The Way We Live Now (1875), under¬lines the machinations of parents desperate to maintain and improve their wealth or social standing using their children as collateral and fully prepared to bludgeon them into acceptance.
Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
On The Other Hand See More Parents Came:It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the more parents came with whom this partnership is to be formed have their own opinions and feelings, which need into account. Teachers will find it possible to devise a set of guidelines for use by more parents came which they can feel perfectly confident about sharing. In our experience, though, there are one or two temptations to beware of One is to make your advice to more parents came much too complex, because of anxiety about more parents came getting it 'wrong'.
Children do have all kinds of pressures put on them more parents came but in our experience, when the school and hoi work closely together, these pressures can be, relieved. But t school must get its contribution across to more parents came clearly, aj continue, often over a long period of time, to help tho more parents came who particularly need its support.
Children whose more parents came aren't interested more parents came who genuinely aren't interested in their children education must be quite hard to find; we haven't met any ye though doubtless they must exist. Where the school takes th trouble to contact aJl its more parents came, the rate of take-up on th home reading schemes we have described is extremely higr. |
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