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In what practical ways do you and/or your school currently support parents? What benefits have you seen from this?
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Our school has morning and afternoon daycare, even for the students in middle school. During the pandemic closures our school, following state and county guidelines, offered “Educational Day camp” through 8th grade, while following the rules, which changed daily. We offer scholarships to needy families, as well.
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Our school supports parents by inviting them into the classrooms frequently, praying with them, having extended hours for conferences, before-care, and after-care.
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We give them access to lesson plans. They can help keep their kids accountable.
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We offer hot lunches, after school HW help, communication with parents is encouraged from individual teachers, and their input is valuable in supporting our extracurricular activities through coaching, fundraising, concession stands, and leadership of events. These creates a “family” of volunteers, chaperones, those willing to shoulder the responsibilities that teachers could never handle alone. Willing parental involvement is priceless. Students benefit, the school benefits, I benefit, all from parental involvement.
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We have a coffee morning once a week that the principal attends. I do love the idea of having an actual coffee shop area though – that would be very cool. I could imagine lots of primary school parents would love to attend there for fellowship.