Parental Engagement

Here we look at how to make the best use of one of the most important school resources: parents. We have advice on parental engagement, using the skills in your school community, and working with mums and dads to support their children's progress.

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  Community engagement - Deeplish Primary Academy

  Pupils

  • A deeper understanding of a school's relationship with the surrounding neighbourhood can help address challenging issues with pupils, explains Hannah Rowe
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  Parental engagement - why listening matters

  Parental Engagement

  • Improving relationships between the school and home can be tricky, but carrying out your own research can help, say Simon Hay and Holly Waddell
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  Safeguarding - don’t leave it too late

  Safeguarding

  • Schools tend to focus on the big incidents but need also to be mindful regarding low-level concerns, advises James Simoniti
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  Behaviour management: ECT support, parental communication… and bad publicity

  Pupils

  • Classroom discipline expert, Sam Strickland, shares three real-life scenarios that can lead to staff struggling with pupil – and parent - conduct
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  “We’re quick to judge education outsiders”

  Parental Engagement

  • How the army taught David Morris the skills to lead a multi-academy trust
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  Developing better practices to support LGBTQ+

  Mental Health

  • Al Kingsley advises on how to tackle the rise in discrimination against trans and gay pupils
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  Finding new ways to get parents on board 

  Parental Communications

  • The Covid shutdown forced Andrew Chadwick’s school to get creative with staying in touch with its community
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  We’ve not been headteachers, but Covid managers

  Pupils

  • LAs were late to the party, and where was government recognition for our role in managing the pandemic? asks Undercover Headteacher
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  Do your safeguarding records hit the mark?

  Health and Safety

  • When Ofsted judges schools to be ‘not effective’, it’s often down to a lack of detail, says James Simoniti
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  How to improve pupils’ mental health

  Mental Health

  • Trying out new strategies for supporting children can reap benefits, says Simon Antwis