We aimed to increase the level of parental engagement in learning within one Early Level Class – consisting of 24 Early Learning and Childcare children and 16 P1 children. Prior to the beginning of the project, the team had no processes in place for engaging parents.
Aim: By the end of May 2016, 60% of children in Tarbert’s early level class will have at least one example of parental engagement in their learning every week. Operational definition: to define ‘parental engagement’ within learning, there should be evidence of one example of parental engagement per week using ANY of the following examples: a written comment within PLP; shared feelings through circling a happy face / ticking a box within PLP; shared achievement from home – photo/piece of work, etc; discussed achievement / next step with practitioner; text / email sharing learning.