Learning Together is about: Parental Involvement, Parental Engagement, Family Learning, Learning at Home
Education Scotland has captured helpful information about Parental Involvement, Engagement, Family Learning and Learning at Home in the sketchnote below:
The purpose of our strategy is to ensure excellence and equity in parental involvement and engagement, family learning and learning at home within our schools. It aims to:
Aims and Rationale:
- Ensure that parents are supported to be fully involved in the life and work of their children’s early learning and childcare setting or school
- Encourage and support collaborative partnerships between staff, parents and families
- Get the right support in place so that parents can engage in their child’s learning
- Expand access to family learning opportunities which meet participants needs
- Improve the quality of all communication between staff, parents and families
- Improve the skills of leaders, front-line staff and support staff
Parental Involvement:
- it is about parents becoming involved in the life and work of the school.
This can be:
- In the Parent Council
- Working Groups to take forwards improvement priorities identified in the school’s improvement plan and help build parent’s understanding of how these support their child’s learning
- Planning improvement together, supporting the school’s aims, vison and values when making decisions
- Volunteering
Parental Engagement:
- can be considered as active engagement in learning. This can take place in a variety of settings such as schools, the community, through Family Learning and learning at home.
This can be:
- Learning in the home
- Learning outdoors
- Learning in the community
- Supported by discussion and sharing learning between the child, school staff and parents
Family Learning:
- is family members learning together as and within a family with a focus on intergenerational learning. Family learning can also be designed to enable parents to learn how to support their children’s learning
This can involve:
- Intergenerational learning
- Adult learning
Learning at Home:
- the learning which happens in the home, outdoors, community. It can take place through everyday activities that families already do and can overlap with aspects of organised or active learning activities.
This can be:
- Football
- Cycling
- Shopping
- Playing games