Working with Parents and the Community

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Working with Parents and the Community

• MEAP Network Meeting
• 12th March 2007

Chris Cagna Sadhana Patel
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A Possible Way Forward

• Information for parents
• Maintaining contact
• Supporting parents in their role as educator
• Exploiting the potential of computer based
  learning to raise attainment
• Giving parents new skills
• Widening the study support

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Progress to date.

• Audit of targeted pupils
• Access to internet
• Volume of usage
• Attendance at mosque
• Name of mosque

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Analysis of audit

• Pupils with no current access to internet
• BBEC 6 pupils
• Fartown 1 pupil
• Moorend 3 pupils
• Royds Hall 1 pupil
• Westborough 4 pupils
• Birkdale 8 pupils
• Batley Girls 5 pupils

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Individual Schools

• Please refer to handouts please note access
  from September 2007

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Problem

• Not all pupils have internet access
• High volume of usage in some homes with internet
  access

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Possible Solutions

• Provision offered by own school
• Provision offered by another local school
• Provision placed in a community centre
• Provision placed in a Mosque

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Obstacles to Using Mosques

• Some gaps in information regarding mosque
  attendance may not all attend
• Mapping mosques onto particular schools an
  impossibility
• Lack of facilities and resources at some mosques
• Nervousness about use of internet
• Gender issues

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Problem Solving and Obstacle Busting

• Talk to school local to pupils home
• - Ravensthorpe I. and J. Schools
• Talk to community centre local to pupils home
• Ravensthorpe Community Centre
• Talk to local mosques
• Investigate other study support facilities

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Planning for Parental Involvement a Case Study

• Involvement of BCSA to phone parents for
  appointments sustainability
• Home visits personal invitation to attend
  school based meeting to enthuse and motivate
• Immediate follow up letter
• Personal invitation to pupils a reminder

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The Meeting

• Immediately after school
• Refreshments
• Inputs on
• background to the project
• benefits to their child
• introduction to SAM learning
• parents and pupils working together
• Feedback on best community venues

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What You Need to Do

• www.samlearning.com
• For your school find out
• Centre id.
• User id.
• Pupil passwords