The Hampshire School Parental Engagement Programme
The Hampshire School Parental Engagement Programme goes beyond involving parents in their child's learning, it provides opportunities for parents to be engaged with their child's learning. Parental Engagement allows parents to develop an understanding of modern learning needs and teaching strategies and practice them both within school and the home.
A special website www.learnaspirebe.com has been developed for all parents. It has lots of information and tips and resources both on parenting and supporting learning in the home. Some of our schools run blogs to support their parents and students working and learning together.
Each school is unique and develops engagement activities tailored to meet the needs of their communities but certain basics are expected from every school. These will include:
- The school recognising parents as central to the teaching and learning process.
- Parents being informed of student study programmes in advance so that they can discuss these with their children and support them where necessary.
- Teachers providing tools, resources and guidance which can help parents to support their children’s learning.
- The majority of the parent body getting a minimum number of face to face contacts with teachers during a school year in which the child's progress is discussed and how parents can support further progress.
- A parents' association which will help the school spread best practice to other parents on helping their children learn at home.
Some of our schools go much further in treating parents as an invaluable learning resource for their students. All of our schools have parent engagement action plans and can supply you with information on what they do.
Parent talks and workshops and resources
The Hampshire School, Chelsea brings in expert speakers from abroad to provide talks to parents on topics that can help them help their children’s education.
The Hampshire School, Chelsea runs parent workshops on helping children to succeed.
Please find below some links to our "Helping you to help your child with..." .pdf booklets
Research
Research from all over the world shows that parental engagement in learning helps children do better at school. One major piece of research shows that active and consistent engagement by parents is worth the equivalent of an extra two or three years of education.
Some of the most recent research has found that parental effort in supporting a child’s education has a bigger effect than the effort made by children and schools combined.
Click here to see 'The Impact of Parent Engagement on Learner Success: A GEMS digest of research for teachers and parents'.