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Leaflet For Parents And Invite: The school first compiled an explanatory leaflet on 'How to become a school author' which, as simply as possible, suggested to parents that the school wanted them to write a short account of dieir childhood daily life. The leaflet also described how the school would assist them. A group of ethnic-minority parents then received a letter inviting them to a meeting to discuss the project, and at this meeting the leaflet was shown and discussed.
The function of the book bank was to encourage easy selection, ready access by pupils, and to foster an atmosphere of relaxed enjoyment of reading; the less able were recognized as reluctant library users.
5 To prepare an attractive leaflet for parents and invite their involvement in a simple recording system.
Most schools launch their schemes by choosing the simplest way of getting a large number of parents together, which is to invite them to a special meeting for the purpose (see chapter 4, page 40). We know that big meetings between parents and teachers are often unsatisfactory affairs; teachers may be frustrated because so few parents turn up, or parents disappointed because the meeting does not deal with the issues they really want to know about. But where the theme is children's learning, and especially where parents know that they are being asked to help with it, there is usually a dramatic increase in attendance and in the degree of participation and enthusiasm during the meeting. Teachers often note with pleasure that the proportion of fathers in the audience is also much higher than usual. |
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