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6 Ways To Improve Relationships With Parents


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Hanna Beech

Hanna Beech has been teaching for ten years and has a range of experience across Key Stages 1 and 2 in a large Primary School in Kent. She is a phase leader for Years 3 and 4, and also leads on teaching and learning for...
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How can you improve relationships with parents?

Strong relationships with parents is crucial and better home-school relationships ‘oils the machine’ and makes life easier for all involved. Try these six speedy ways to develop stronger connections with your pupils’ parents.

1. Be visible

Being available ensures parents can approach you if they so wish. So, make yourself visible not invisible! Make sure you are around during key transition times is vital.

2. Focus on the good

Ensure that their child’s successes are celebrated and communicated regularly and effectively. Use a mixture of face to face, phone call, letter or email as options!

3. Explain your actions

If you need to inform parents of a concern, be ready to share your actions for improving the situation. This avoids the conversation becoming a ‘moan’.

4. Chat

Holding regular informal conversations with parents can help foster better relationships.

5. Empathise with parents

Spend a short time reflecting on how a parent might be feeling. Show them you understand and can relate.

6. Connect over caring

You can show how much you care by regularly reaching out and sharing your concerns, experiences, stories and news.

Top Tip

So, why do this? Read ‘Working with parents to support children’s learning’ by the Education Endowment Foundation to explore research around developing parental engagement.

If you only ever communicate to address a problem, parents will always expect the worst.

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10th April 20194th April 2020 by Hanna Beech
Posted in Behaviour, CPD, ParentingTagged #1minCPD, Behaviour, CPD, Education Endowment Foundation, Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), home-school communication, home-school links, Parent Evenings, parental engagement, Parents, positive, Relationships

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