Engaging parents
Improving the quality of discussion between parents and learners about their education makes all the difference to what learners achieve.
Technology can help you provide useful information at an appropriate time, to improve this dialogue.
- More learners and parents will have access to technology at home through the Government's plans to provide computers and internet access to families.
- Secondary schools need to provide online reporting for parents by 2010, and primary schools by 2012.
We can show you how others are moving towards this and help you make progress.
Related publications
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Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reporting: Toolkit
27 August 2008
27 August 2008
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Research shows that parental interest in their child's education is the single most powerful predictor of achievement at age 16.
Tony Richardson, Executive Director Strategy & Policy, BectaYou should make engaging parents a priority, not simply to meet the government expectation for all schools to provide online reporting by 2012, but to improve achievement. We can support you to give parents secure online access to information about their child, when and where they please.
More learners and parents will have access to technology at home through the Government's plans to provide computers and internet access to families. Find out what it's all about.
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Award winning practice
See how Ranvilles Infant School has turned technology to its advantage to keep parents involved with their child's education.
Parents want schools to text about child's progress
Discover what research has shown about how parents prefer to be communicated with.
School experiences of online reporting
Find out how some schools have progressed on the journey towards online reporting.
Home Access
Learn about plans to improve learning at home by providing computers and internet access to families.
Find out how to engage
Video overview of online reporting
See how Cardinal Wiseman Technology College and Deer Park School have put online reporting into practice.
Introduction to online reporting
Find out what you need to do and how we can support you.
Self-review framework
Understand and plan how to extend learning beyond your school, by working through the extending opportunities for learning section of the self-review framework.
Data handling security guidance for schools
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Better engagement with parents is a key issue for schools to improve achievement. You should be supporting schools in meeting the government expectation to provide online reporting by 2012. You also need to know about the Government’s plans to provide access to technology at home. Find out what it’s all about.
Read the evidence
The importance of parental engagement: evidence and research
Discover the most informative evidence about the importance of engaging with parents.
Parents want schools to text about child's progress
Discover what research has shown about how parents prefer to be communicated with.
See it in practice
Video overview of online reporting
See how Cardinal Wiseman Technology College and Deer Park School have put online reporting into practice.
School experiences of online reporting
Find out how some schools have progressed on the journey towards online reporting.
Find out what you can do
Introduction to online reporting
Find out how we are supporting schools and what you can do.
Computers for pupils
Get an overview of the funding and guidance available to provide computers for disadvantaged pupils.
Home Access
Learn about Government plans to improve learning by providing computers and internet access to more families. Help the Home Access programme by sharing your experiences of the Computers for Pupils initiative.
Communities
Online reporting community
This community offers an open space for school staff to share experiences, ask questions and discuss issues around online reporting.
“Maybe if we open up more of a dialogue with parents and carers about what information should flow to and from the home on a regular and timely basis we may be on firmer ground?”
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