Objective 4: Deepen parental engagement

Benefits:  an increase in the amount of communication between schools and homes, relating to learners achievements; increased involvement of parents in their child’s learning through greater access to opportunities; increased digital literacy amongst parents.

What do we need to do:

• Encourage schools to take small steps – email communications, publish calendars online, develop school websites.
• Provide online learning opportunities for parents (particularly Internet safety).
• Encourage the social use of technology – sharing pupil work and achievements on Facebook / Twitter / Flickr / YouTube / Google+ etc.
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How will we do this:

• For primary and earl;y years secondary where schools have clear duty of care this could be major hurdle without some national or local authority infrastructure - even a lot  suggested cloud platforms are cautious about age of their users  
• Need models of good practice to encourage schools to open up to parents ( this is actually more than simply a technological issue is fundamentally a service/relationship  confidence  issue ) .