Our aim is to:
To engage parents in their children’s learning and to provide enrichment activities for families
Families learning together.
During the year we provide activities to for children and parents to learn together.
Enrichment activities are offered to families.
Creative Arts class
Our primary emphasis is to give parents enjoyment and the opportunity to be involved in their child’s educational growth outside of the regular school-day.
Involving parents in their children’s learning we:
- Engage parents through their children by getting children to bring their parents/carers grandparents to school for different events or activities.
- Target parents to attend events
- Provide study support sessions for children and meet and greet the parents
- Organise workshops for parents and children to learn together
- After school (animation workshops – Tuesday evenings)
- During the school day (Little Bridge – Literacy programme) – Wednesday
- Stay and Play sessions
- Give families access to educational software (Mathletics)
- Use Makewav.es/shirelands as mechanism to encourage and motivate children and showcase their achievements to families
- Saturday mornings (fun activities)
- Holiday activities are held for children and at each event one day is dedicated to Family Learning (Key priorities taken from the Ormiston Plan)
- Arrange educational visits for families to engage with their children. i.e. Dudley Zoo, Safari park, Akamba Garden Centre, Weston-Super-mare – Workshops for the visits are organised through themes – and matched to KS2 Curriculum and our Community Curriculum
YESsmethwick 2015 - 2016 