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Effective Partnerships with Parents (EPPa)
Engaging with parents and the local community in all kinds of schools.

EPPa is a strategy:
• to help you to engage more successfully with parents and the local community
• that will build on the work you do with parents
• that can be used equally effectively in infant, primary and secondary schools
• that has been extensively piloted over several years in rural and urban schools with DfES/LSC funding
• that is flexible and is not prescriptive, that fits with local agendas
• that is centred on delivering projects arising out of local need
• that is parent/community led and doesn’t require too much head/teacher time
• that is supported by a wealth of materials

Contents include:
• Step-by-step guidance about setting up and running EPPa
• A volunteer policy and handbook
• Questionnaires and audit forms, ideal for Ofsted/SEF requirements
• Case studies
• Advice about where and how to secure funding for projects
• Tips and strategies for engaging more parents
• Sample letters and a host of model documents to adapt or adopt
• PowerPoint presentations
• An optional Award

£37.50 + £2.50 postage

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Southgate sampleVolunteers 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 £13.95
ISBN: 9 781857 411461
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