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Testimonials
| Headteacher, Highfield Primary School, Plymouth. |
| “As a new head teacher coming into a school, finding an established EPPa Action Team was an unbelievable gift! The EPPa approach has provided me with a structure to embrace important new government agendas, especially the five outcomes for Every Child Matters. We can’t treat parental and community involvement as a ‘bolt-on’ any longer. Integrating new agendas into the school management plan has been so much easier using the EPPa strategy" |
| Deputy Headteacher, Langdon Park Community College Tower Hamlets. |
| “Having parents in school as role models has seen a major improvement in attitude and behaviour of our students.” |
| Parent, Southern Road Primary School, Newham |
| “For our EPPa Team, three schools have joined together to make the most of all our talents and skills. We live in an area with enormous cultural diversity and the EPPa Action Team promotes projects that help parents see that we can really contribute and make a difference. EPPa has helped us to build links between the primary schools and the secondary school so that parents now have a real sense of community across the cultures and across the three schools. Primary school parents and children are not so intimidated by the secondary school any more.” |
| Director People, Queen Elizabeth Community Technology College, Crediton, Devon |
“The success of EPPa in our secondary school has led us to engage with all thirteen of our rural feeder primary schools to undertake joint projects that can focus on issues important to parents, community and staff across all the learning community. We see great potential for undertaking healthy living projects, environmental projects, projects to ease transition from primary to secondary schools and projects that support learning and parenting. The Primary Care Trust and other agencies and organisations are now approaching us to work collaboratively.”
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| Parent, Lansbury Lawrence Primary School, Tower Hamlets |
“We started a shop project to provide basic writing stuff for the children to use at home. It’s been very, very popular! In running the shop we have learnt new skills - handling money, team working and helping other parents who have even less confidence than we had!”
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| Valena Jones, Principal, Parkside Community Technology College, Plymouth |
This is a brilliant resource for parents, schools and community members. The toolkit is full of ideas and advice on how everyone can work together for the benefit of our children and young people.
Our Parents Action Team have used a lot of the ideas and things have really moved on. The toolkit is excellent value for money.
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