Working Together to Improve Behaviour: A Home / School Partnership New!

Working Together to Improve Behaviour enables schools to engage and support parents in the delivery of consistent and effective behaviour standards and management leading to improved behaviour both at school and at home.

The DVD-based home/school discussion package provides powerful triggers and insights to motivate, inform and involve parents in meaningful debate, attitudinal change and emotionally literate strategies around behaviour.

Working Together to Improve Behaviour will help schools and Local Authorities provide support for parents as part of an Extended School, Transition or school Improvement initiative.

It engages parents in delivering expectations and standards of behaviour that are consistent with those of schools is now understood to be crucial in enabling the schools to provide all pupils with the best possible learning outcomes.

? The package incorporates comprehensive facilitation notes with suggested questions and discussion points to make course delivery straightforward plus a range of handouts for parent participants. We can also arrange facilitation where required.

? Our media-based home/school discussion package, provides powerful triggers and insights to motivate, inform and involve parents in meaningful debate, attitudinal change and emotionally literate strategies around behaviour. Includes sections on.

+ Role modelling
+ Rewards and sanctions
+ Expectations and preconceptions
+ Proportionality and calm
+ External influences
+ Mutual respect
+ Working in partnership with the school

Says Pat Griffiths, Head of the Behaviour Support Service of Caerphilly LEA Inclusion Services, “You can’t over emphasise the importance of schools gaining the support of parents in their efforts to create a positive and well managed behaviour ethos. We’re confident that this DVD will provide schools with a very powerful tool for getting parents involved, helping them with positive strategies and showing them the significance of their influence.”

“Parents are looking to schools for help... every parent in this school should see this material.”
Cerith Lewis, Deputy Head, Blackwood Comprehensive

“This approach is an extremely exciting and innovative one. It brings into a completely different perspective the partnership that parents and schools can have. Children will very much gain as a result and their families will as well.”
Fintan O’Regan – Behaviour Consultant / Author