'true' Parental Partnership

AnonyMouse_25331 · 2010-10-22T17:57:03+0000

I am struggling with separating the ideas of ‘parental partnership’ and ‘parental involvement’ and wondered if anyone would like to start a discussion. I work in a village pre-school and feel that I have a good relationship with many of the parents. I've been studying this for my foundation degree... and wonder if anyone has any views to help me sort this out in my mind... Parents support the pre-school really well and attend any ‘events’ enthusiastically. We regularly share information with parents and ask for their comments which nearly every parent does, which we then use to inform our planning. Parents can put a star on our ‘celebration wall’ which can be exciting things happening at home (which we get lots of) or developmental achievements (which we never get any of!) I will often share snippets of information about child development with parents, so for example when I recently observed a child who had drawn a range of circles and lines and said he written his name, I showed the parents and explained how this amazing it was to see this child’s achievements and how he was showing an understanding that those ‘squiggles’ mean something! I think it is really important to share this kind of knowledge with parents but I’m also realistic enough to know that some parents just aren’t interested. I have tried many different ways to get parents into the setting to ‘help’ or ‘play’ but we don’t really get much of a response – maybe 2 parents a term... The PSLA draft policies include a ‘parental involvement’ policy and then talks about have ‘partnership’ with parents! My head is going round in circles at the moment trying to think about my ‘values and beliefs’ . There are some areas which I would like to improve and others that are working well for us, but I also need to consider that if parents are to contribute to development files and profiles then they surely need to understand them as well as I do! And that just isn’t going to happen.... I’m sure that if I was to ask all my parents if their child could count upto 10, every one of them would say yes, even though I know many of them are just reciting the numbers in the correct order. Does anyone have any views on this area that they would like to share?

By AnonyMouse_25331
October 22, 2010 in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues

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