12. Parental Involvement in Supporting Literacy
All schools promote inclusive home and school partnerships through connecting to parents and carers within the school and through timely and effective communication of student learning and literacy and numeracy practices. Schools provide parent education programs that suit the context of their school community. Schools form partnerships with community groups to support students’ literacy and numeracy development.
This parameter addresses the importance of the involvement of parents/guardians in the literacy development of their children. Ongoing work in and across schools involves literacy leadership teams working toward establishing strong community-home-school relationships. An example of this work at the primary level involves school literacy teams helping to establish preschool literacy programs in community places, with teachers going out to community centres as part of school readiness programs (Sharratt 2004).
Schools can build strong relationships with parents by keeping them informed about their children's progress and about their approach to the teaching and learning of literacy. These relationships are supported in schools where parents understand how they can support their children and where schools invite parents to help them understand how the schools can support them.
Schools can build strong relationships with parents by keeping them informed about their children's progress and about their approach to the teaching and learning of literacy. These relationships are supported in schools where parents understand how they can support their children and where schools invite parents to help them understand how the schools can support them.
- Literacy leadership teams work toward establishing strong community-homeschool relationships
- Schools build strong relationships with parents by keeping them informed about their children’s progress and about their approach to the teaching of literacy
- These relationships are supported in schools where parents understand how they can sup[port their children and where schools invite parents to help them understand how the schools can support.
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The school leadership team has established and is driving strong relationships with families, the parish priest and the local parish community and actively encourages the engagement of these groups in school improvement conversation.