Lovely Parents: Children learn first and foremost from their lovely parents. In this respect all lovely parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their lovely parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about lovely parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about lovely parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (lovely parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the lovely parents with whom this partnership is to be formed have their own opinions and feelings, which need into account. Teachers will find it possible to devise a set of guidelines for use by lovely parents which they can feel perfectly confident about sharing. In our experience, though, there are one or two temptations to beware of One is to make your advice to lovely parents much too complex, because of anxiety about lovely parents getting it 'wrong'. |
