Parents: Partners in learning

Publication date:: Sep 2002
DCSF ref:: 0747-2004G
Audience:: Carer, Deputy headteacher, Early years foundation stage practitioner, Early years leader, Headteacher, Parent, Teacher
Function:: Good practice, Guidance, Learning partnerships
Format:: Booklet

This publication is available as a PDF file (330 KB).

Parents and families play a key role in their children's learning. Their involvement has long been a strength of early years education, with practitioners working to establish effective partnerships.

This pack contains materials to ensure that schools understand the importance of continuing this partnership beyond the Foundation Stage and build on the good practice already established and exemplified in previously published material.

The pack also contains a video which illustrates learning and teaching in an early years setting and a range of schools, with the aim of informing parents about current practice. The main focus is on the development of literacy and mathematics teaching, but within a rich and broad curriculum.