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Volunteers in Schools Developing an effective strategy for recruiting and managing volunteers in schools Volunteers are a hugely valuable resource for schools. This book, with its accompanying CD, provides materials designed to help schools to build on the work they already do with volunteers and to get volunteering onto a more organised and sustainable footing. The manual covers issues such as recruitment, retention, funding and training and the CD provides model documents that can be adapted by schools. These include a Volunteer Policy, a handbook for volunteers, information for staff and governors, questionnaire, responsibilities of the volunteer co-ordinator and sample letters. The author, Jean de Rijke, has a long-standing interest in home-school- community partnerships. This led to the development of the Effective Partnerships with Parents Toolkit and Strategy for schools. Underpinning her very practical approach to exploring home-school-community relations was her PhD research into the perceptions and attitudes of parents and teachers that affect partnership working. Book plus CD £12.95 |
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Effective Partnerships with Parents (EPPa) A new toolkit has been published by Mosaic Educational, one of Southgate’s partners. Supported by the DfES, Learning and Skills Council and three LEAs, EPPa provides all the materials needed for schools to develop effective and sustainable partnerships between teachers, parents, governors and the local community. It offers a new and tried and tested approach that particularly helps to involve the so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ parents. EPPa fits very well into the Extended School Agenda and includes the areas of Family Learning, volunteer training, basic skills and the changing of the learning culture amongst parents. For more information and to order please go to: www.mosaic-ed.com |
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