Practical Guide to Effective Communication with Parents

This practical guide explores methods to engage parents effectively, improve communication, and support children's learning at home. It discusses the importance of parental involvement, technology use, and tailored communication strategies to enhance academic achievement.

• Communication
• Parental involvement
• Technology
• Academic achievement
• Learning support

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1. Mind the Gap: a practical guide to working with parents and effective communication School and Community Team Ben Wilson: South Team Manager Steph Dickson: North Team Manager

2. Who we are School and Community Teams work across Norfolk s 15 School and Community Zones supporting schools, early years providers and families locally in helping to meet the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) of children who would benefit from earlier SEND support. They work as part of the countywide SEND offer within Norfolk s Local First Inclusion Programme.

3. Aims of the session: Consider different approaches to support engagement with parents Consider reviewing current approaches Improved awareness of Literary reviews Improved awareness of approaches adopted by partners & settings Opportunity to share own experiences

4. What does the evidence show Engaging Parental Mobile Working with parents in involvement on Technology and parents to support student academic parenting children's learning engagement achievement programmes

5. 1. Critically review how you Working with Parents to work with parents 2. Provide practical strategies support children s to support learning at home learning 3. Tailor communications Education Endowment 4. Offer sustained & intensive support where needed Foundation (EEF)

6. Strong associations when families have high academic expectations PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IS for their children MULTIFACETED & Parental involvement Maintain communication with their MULTIIMENSIONAL children about school activities on student academic achievement Educational Research Homework Globally Review Holistic

7. Texting Parent Carers was effective at: Supporting Fathers to Driving up parental engage with home engagement in home learning activities. learning. Mobile technology & family engagement Harvard Family Research Supporting parent carers of boy to Project engage with more home learning activities.

8. Key areas to consider: HOW to communicate the intervention/ programme Engaging parents in best? WHO is best to communicate parenting programs about the intervention/ Children & Youth Services programme? Review

9. Literature Review handouts

10. Practical Strategies and Approaches What have you tried? Why do you think What was the it was successful outcome? or not?

11. Practical Strategies and Approaches Top Tips Have you considered? Consult and ensure 2 way - Literacy levels - Be prepared to change approaches - Ethnicity and cultural awareness - Remain positive & build on parents' - What the research and evidence - efficacy reports Targeted - Location & accessibility - Breadth of strategies -

12. Practical Strategies and Approaches

13. Case Study: School Primary Secondary Face-to-Face offer Website offer Settling in Evenings Full curriculum overview Face-to-Face offer Website offer Parent Evenings SEND information Transition Evenings Full curriculum overview GCSE Choices Evening Policies and Procedures Settling in Evenings SEND information Celebration Assemblies Updates about WOW moments Parent Evenings Policies and Procedures PTA Meetings Upcoming events SEND Cafes Twitter Updates about great learning/ Parent Cafes trips etc Class assembly Calendar of events Paper offer PTA Meetings Paper offer Newsletter Interactive learning portal (student) Friends of Meetings Newsletter Student Reports Interactive learning portal (parent Sports Day Student Reports Student Newspaper Parent Workshops carer) Therapy Dog diary Fete Fun Day

14. Case Study: ECFS On-line offer Parents Forum Accessible to working parents Webinars: to meet demand & needs Accessible, face to face (toilet training, car sea safety) Alongside other events already Multi-agency (Health Visitors co- planned deliver) Interactive Use of Social Media Other considerations Dedicated manager to over see Incentives e.g. refreshments Consistent reply to comments Gather and use feedback to inform Agreements shared between service offer users & staff of expectations during Advertise services available and able 1:1 & group work, which helps to use to book on events engagement

15. Next steps Review today, what can you - introduce that will have an immediate impact? Can you reflect on anything that you - will now do differently? Is there anyone else you need to - tell? Constantly review and listen to - feedback!

16. Final thoughts