We have decided that a starting point to improve parental engagement in school, class and student learning, would be to survey the parents for their thoughts. opinions, ideas and access to our school's different forms of digital communications. Today our classes have each taken home a survey form for their parents to fill out. They are strongly encouraged to return the form this week, completed. 100% returns are needed to truly understand where our all of our parents sit on this.
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◻ Sonja blog (link) ◻ Parent Survey ◻ Forced subscribe parents ◻ 2015 Blog stats - Room 12 Blog Stats 2015 ◻ Research Shaun and I met today to discuss the ideas we have that could be an inquiry on this programme. We have decided on the focus of building parent engagement, and thought that there are three separate areas to focus on
We are going to manually subscribe each parent to our class blog, and then individually to their child's blog. This does rely on them accepting the subscription, and there will be additional information going home to clarify and encourage parents. We have already invited our parents to our Class Story page via Class Dojo and we have both had a good response with parents accepting. Not 100% yet, but that is definitely our aim. We undertake to post a minimum of 2-3 posts on Class Story, and a minimum one post a week on Blogger of a more detailed nature. Our next step is to create a survey to find out about how parents feel in terms of engagement with learning last year, the work on blogs, homework, keeping in touch with what was happening in class, and for this year, whether they are subscribed to Class Dojo, if not why, and the same for Blogger, if not why? We'll ask about the type of communication they prefer, if they use a smartphone to access info or not, whether they have the school app? and if so if they use it? We want these surveys to go out on Tuesday and be returned no later than 26th February. Once they are back we will collate them, and together with research from re- parent engagement (minimum 1 each) we will look at other measures we can take to build parental engagement at school. We will also look at the statistics for last year's blogs (views, comments etc), and compare that information with what the parents are telling us, and the results we get throughout and at the end of this inquiry at the end of term 3... |
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