Parent Relationships

Our belief

Parents are an important partner in the learning relationship. It is important that we keep parents fully informed about and involved in their child's education. Successful relationships will be built through conversations of equals with both the teacher and the parent contributing specialist knowledge and understanding to the conversation. Parents are also clients in they are paying for the education. We need to respect this client relationship.

Actions

1. Teachers should make opportunities to celebrate with parents children's learning. This can be done by:
   a. inviting the parent to school.
   b. emailing or phoning parents.
   c. sending home work samples with comment.
    

2. Parents will formally be invited to school to talk to the teacher on the following occassions in 2005:
   a. To build a learning Profile of the student in Term One.
   b. Three way Conference Term 2.
   c. Three way Conference Term 3.
    

3. A family event will be planned for each term.
    

4. A School Open Day will be held at the end of Term One, Term Two and Term Three.
    

5. Parents should be encouraged to attend assemblies when their child is performing. Teachers should formally invite parents giving them plenty of notice.
    

6. Formal letters sent home to parents must be checked either by Principal, Deputy Principal.
    

7. If the occasion does arise where an irate parent calls upon you unannounced, leave the classroom and direct the parents to the main office. If you know a parent is coming to see you and that the interview may be difficult, it is wise to seek the presence of a senior member of staff.

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