Parental Engagement in Schools

Capita’s 4th National Parental Engagement in Schools Conference provides a practical guide to improving communication, interaction and collaboration between teachers and parents as a means of enhancing both school and pupil performance.

In this new political environment in which parents will be expected to play an increasing role in the delivery of education, it is important to take a step back and assess the challenges and barriers to effective engagement between education professionals and parents. Teachers must determine the most practical strategies to facilitate dialogue and interaction and take the opportunity to learn from one another enon how best to make parental gagement a functioning reality in the life of the school.

Through a series of proven approaches and practical case studies, our expert speakers will provide you with a range of tools that can be tailored to help you overcome the challenge of achieving meaningful engagement. This timely conference addresses key issues including:

• Developing an effective strategy for engagement and maintaining the lines of communication with parents
• Achieving results through a partnership approach between parents and schools
• Improving working relationships between teachers and parents
• Reaching out to parents who are the most difficult to engage
• Promoting a whole family approach to learning

Attend this solution-focused event to take away valuable advice and guidance on how to build a sustainable relationship between your school and parents, a key partner in helping you raise educational attainment for all pupils.

• Identify achievable parental engagement goals and ensure pupils remain the focus
• Take away ideas on how to improve existing strategies for sustainable communication between schools and parents
• Learn how to build trust and successful partnerships from examples that put parents at the heart of decision making processes 
• Find out more about engagement activities that can be conducted outside the school environment to benefit parents and pupils to continue learning
• Hear from parents about what they need from you and how to make your school more accessible
• Make transition easier for pupils through better communication and collaboration with parents
• Gain practical advice on how to remove the barriers to dialogue between harder to reach parents and education professionals