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Effective Partnerships with Parents (EPPa)
However appealing the promise of greater parent and community involvement may be, the reality is that every new initiative competes for the attention of teachers in an already over-crowded timetable.
Effective Partnerships with Parents (EPPa) provides an easy-to-use tool to help schools meet the parent and community involvement challenges of Every Child Matters, Extended Schools Agenda, Five Year Strategy and School Self Assessment.
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Meet your SEF/OfSTED parent and community involvement goals with as little fuss as possible |
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Develop a longer-term strategy regarding parent and community involvement |
EPPa is a step-by-step guide to help you to meet your parent/community involvement targets and at just £35 the revised EPPa Toolkit provides a hugely valuable addition to your school’s resources.
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Essex Celebration - June 2008. Essex held a wonderful showcase and celebration event... - click for more |
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Top Ten Tips for Successful Projects - Arising out of the experience of EPPa teams, some good advice about running successful projects is provided in the Members' Area |
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Highfield EPPa Team - 10 years on they now have a suite of rooms for family learning, a nursery, breakfast club and much more... - click for more |
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Volunteers in Schools - Developing an effective strategy for recruiting and managing volunteers in schools - click here |
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Scrapheap Challenge!
Looking for an activity that is fully inclusive, regardless of ability; engages the community, especially male parents and carers? - click here (word doc 6.8MB) |
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OfSTED and EPPa - click here |
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CASE STUDIES - Click here |
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INFORMATION BOOKLET - click here |
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Meeting SEF / OfSTED goals
CONSULTATION WITH PARENTS AND THE COMMUNITY – the EPPa Toolkit provides:
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Model documents for you to adapt on all aspects of parents involvement with school from the welcome they get to involvement with learning, volunteering etc. |
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Suggestions for ways to consult effectively and what to do with the results of questionnaires |
PROJECTS to engage parents – including ‘hard to reach’ parents
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Ideas and case studies for short or long PROJECTS that demonstrate parental involvement |
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Where to go for HELP AND SUPPORT from commercial, voluntary and other organisations for your projects |
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Getting VOLUNTEERING on a proper footing - model policy for governors, guidance booklet for volunteers to adapt to suit your school |
Click here for EPPa Toolkit order form
Longer term strategy for Parent and Community Involvement
The EPPa Toolkit also provides a sustainable strategy for parent and community involvement as demonstrated by the latest trial of the EPPa Strategy. For report and case studies click here.
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A detailed, accessible and easy-to-use TOOLKIT enables schools to put the strategy into practice. It contains a wealth of admin back-up materials, advice, policies etc. It contains all you will need to form a strategic partnership with advice from the setting up of the group, the model constitution and recruiting parent leaders to undertaking projects that can really make a difference to your school.
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