Involving and engaging parents and families
This page brings together key documents, case studies, research and professional learning for practitioners who work with parents and families. It is designed to support effective and meaningful engagement.
Key documents
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Strategic Framework for Parental Involvement, Parental Engagement, Family Learning and Learning at Home
This Strategic Framework has been developed in response to the demand for clarity on what practitioners need to know when engaging and working with parents and families.
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Aligning family learning and The Promise - A guide for family learning professionals and GIRFEC strategic leads
The purpose of this resource is to provide a foundational knowledge on the background and current delivery approaches of Family Learning in Scotland and how they align with #KeepingThePromise.
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Family engagement in secondary schools
This practice exemplar has been developed by three schools who worked together to produce a resource guide on increasing family engagement across the secondary sector.
Parental involvement, parental engagement, family learning and learning at home
Improving outcomes for learners, parents and families remains a key priority across Scotland’s political and educational landscape.
In order to achieve this, there is an ongoing need to ensure that the workforce has the appropriate values, competencies, skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications to work effectively with learners, parents and families.
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Practice exemplars
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Engaging parents and families in their children’s learning through family fun groups – Abercromby Primary School
This practice exemplar explains how one primary school used family fun groups to engage parents in their children’s learning, improve communications across the whole school and engage with the wider parent body.
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A family learning approach to maths - Pizza Maths in Renfrewshire
Pizza Maths is a family learning project that helps parents to develop the skills and confidence to support their children with maths, using a holistic social practice approach.
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Engaging parents in language learning – Moorfoot Primary School and Garvel Deaf Centre – Inverclyde Council
This practice exemplar explains how one primary school used British Sign Language (BSL) to engage parents in their children’s learning, improve communications across the whole school and engage with the wider deaf community.
Parental involvement and parental engagement case studies
- Involving parents, children, staff and partners in improvement planning - Burnside Primary School - Angus chevron_right
- Gypsy Traveller Education Group – South Lanarkshire Council chevron_right
- Engaging parents and families in their children’s learning – Holyrood Secondary School – Glasgow City Council chevron_right
- Breaking down barriers to parental involvement and engagement - St Mark’s Primary School – East Renfrewshire chevron_right
- Barriers to parental engagement - Equitable support for children at New Cumnock Primary School chevron_right
Family learning case studies
- Family learning at Braes High School chevron_right
- STEM Family Learning at Larbert High School, Falkirk chevron_right
- Collaborative family learning approach to working with ESOL parents through storytelling chevron_right
- Using a Family Learning approach to Safe Play in Royston, Glasgow chevron_right
- Using a family learning approach to increase parental engagement through Read, Write, Count chevron_right
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Research
- Collaborating to Transform and Improve Education Systems: A playbook for family-school engagement chevron_right
- Can we put the ‘poverty of aspiration’ myth to bed now? chevron_right
- Increasing the Employability of Parents/Carers chevron_right
- Impact of the Home Learning Environment on child cognitive development: secondary analysis of data from ‘Growing up in Scotland’ chevron_right
- Review of Best Practice in Parental Engagement: Practitioners’ Summary chevron_right
- School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Caring for the children we share chevron_right
- Provider influence on the early home learning environment (EHLE) chevron_right
Workforce development
- Professional Learning Guide - Involving and engaging parents and families chevron_right
- Family Learning and the Outdoors Padlet chevron_right
- Family Learning Numeracy and Maths Padlet chevron_right
- Family Learning Wakelet chevron_right
- Learning at Home Wakelet chevron_right
- National Occupational Standards for Family Learning chevron_right