1. Exploiting
Technology to
Enhance Parental
Engagement
Brenda A Bigland CBE
M.A., B.Ed. Hons., A.M.B.D.A.

2. Vision To ensure information
offered to parents is enough
to inspire engagement and
support for each child to
achieve their full potential

3. To help pupils to learn effectively
Main reporting should:
•Involve the pupil
Aims •Inform about individual progress
•Enable strengths and weaknesses
to be identified
•Indicate the next step in the
learning process
•Help the pupil to define their own
targets whilst still being supported
by parents and teachers
•Allow parents to support
appropriately by giving them the
tools to do so
•Motivate the child and the parent
through success

4. To help teachers to work with
Main parents
Aims Reporting should include:
•Evidence of pupils work
•Standards at any given time
showing attainment, achievement,
attitude to learning, behaviour,
attendance.
•It should offer parents a chance to
help to define the way forward
working with their own child
•Systems and strategies for parents
to help at home
•Level indicators for their child's
age and ability

5. What do we share?
•Progress and achievements
Parental across a wide range of activities
Engagement •Attainment in National
Curriculum subjects
•Current Targets and Targets for
future learning (and/or
behaviour)
•Pupils work through their own
portfolio
•Family Learning activities
•And so much more!!

6. Why? (1)
•To develop a strong cohesion
Parental between parent, pupil and
Engagement teacher
•To encourage parents to not just
get involved but to act as role
models for learning
•To allow the “hard to reach
parents” where their own
learning may have been
neglected to get involved by
allowing their children to “lead”
the way through sharing
learning.

7. Why? (2)
•To make meetings between
Parental home and school even more
Engagement meaningful
•To ensure that for those parents
who cannot come in to school ICT
is used effectively to enhance
parental engagement
•To motivate and encourage pupils
•To improve behaviour – an
informed parent is often more
supportive!!

8. How?
•Real Time Reporting
Parental •Initial meetings with information offered
across a variety of areas (Goody Bags)
Engagement •Home / school partnership agreements
•Written reports (twice a year)
•½ termly targets
•Through reading / homework diaries
/ postcards/ Parent Packs
•Formal meetings (twice a year)
•Informal meetings
•Website for information offered
•VLE to encourage and motivate Lifelong
Learning and to encourage parents
to drive learning
•Emails / texts/ letters
•Fliers on Key Services

9. •The Head meets every parent prior to the
child starting school
On Entry •Parents evenings
•Parents goody bag
to •Flier on Exploiting technology to enhance
parental engagement
School •Flier of Extended Services
•Flier on Sustainability
•Information on eSafety
•Internet Use
•How to help at home
•Grandparents support pack
•Healthy schools information and one Red
apple!!
•Teddy Bears Picnics and a Seeing is Believing
trip around the school

10. Website
•General School Information
•Admissions
Main •Policy Documents
•News and Newsletters
Aims •Information on class work
•Curriculum information
•Calendar of events
•PTA page
•How to contact the school
•Photo gallery
•Guestbook
•Video sharing practice
•Roll of Honour
•Links to other communication
sites

11. Lent Rise Learning World
•Individual portfolios/Children's targets
•“Real Time” reporting
•Individually tailored materials for
Main pupils
•Challenges in each subject area
Aims •Homework
•Quizzes
•Adult Learning through links into
courses
•Advice to parents on standards / how
to support their child
•Parent Forums
•Chat rooms for Headteacher to seek
children's opinions
•Chat room for Year 6
•On line discussion forums for Healthy
School/ Sustainable school/ 2012
dialogue
•On line questionnaires for pupils and
parents

12. Main
Aims
Early Lent Rise
•Information on the setting
•Sharing pupils work
•Encouraging Home School links
•Lennie and Lottie
•Celebrating successes

13. Healthy Lent Rise
Main •Promotes our Healthy School
Aims Status
•Engages parents with the “Well
Being” Indicators
•Information about work done in
school against the 8 Key Areas
•Children's work on PSHE
•A news and events section
•Information on the work done
by the Healthy School Council
•Initiatives undertaken by the
school e.g. Walk to School Week.

14. Main
Lent Rise – A Sustainable
Aims School
•Works to promote sustainability
for the school community
•A Past pupil guides the way
through the 8 Doorways
•Calendar of upcoming events
•Links to relevant and useful sites
for the family
•Links to the work of the Healthy
School/ Eco Council

15. Video and Podcasting
Main •Lent Rise Media World
Aims •Lent Rise Radio World
•Videos showing partnership
with Magdalen College
Oxford
•Videos showing children's /
staff and parents opinions of
what makes our school
special!!

16. We grow.... (1)
Overall
•Confident and happy learners
Impact •A culture for learning within the
whole community
•Eager and responsive pupils
•Pupils who know they have a
voice
•Pupils who know their own
strengths and weaknesses
and how to develop further

17. We grow.... (2)
Overall
•Pupils who can make educated
Impact choices supported by their
families
•Parents who are involved and
who learn to ask the right
questions to support their
children with future learning

18. KS2 SATs Results 2009
Level 4+
Overall English 97%
Maths 97%
Impact Science 100%
Level 5+
English 66%
Maths 69%
Science 76%
Value Added 101.7
(with higher than national
average figures for pupils with
Special Educational Needs)

19. Exploiting
Technology to
Enhance Parental
Engagement
Brenda A Bigland CBE
M.A., B.Ed. Hons., A.M.B.D.A.