Snow Closes Schools But Learning Could Still Carry On At Home
The current cold weather closed hundreds of schools robbing children of valuable lesson time. But in future this time at home could become highly constructive in a child’s learning programme . One of the key objective of the Government is get more parents engaged in the schooling programme of their children. A recent survey also showed 82 per cent of parents wanted to be better informed of their child’s progress and information of how they could help at home. The range of educational games played in school are idea to support the learning progress at home. The advent of on-line links to the school will open the door to more effective two way communication that will help children.
New report exposes the after-school communication challenge parents face. Becta calls for uptake of simple technologies to aid three-way dialogue between school, parents and children.
- Nearly a third of parents feel excluded by their children.
- Only 16% of children proactively talk about their school day.
- Children admit they want to keep ‘hassling’ parents away from school life.
- 82% of parents want schools to keep them better informed.
The majority of parents admit they don’t know as much about their child’s day at school as they would like, according to a new report commissioned by Becta, to support its Next Generation Learning campaign.
The survey of 1,000 children aged between seven and 14 years and 1,000 parents, reveals that 43% of parents admit they find it either difficult or very difficult to extract information from their child about their day at school.
Parents are not alone in facing this communication challenge: almost half of children (44%) don’t like sharing information with their parents, they like to keep their school day private; and over a third (37%) of children say they find it quite or very difficult to speak to their parents about their education.
Becta has commissioned child psychologist, Professor Tanya Byron, to explore the issue further and offer simple, practical solutions to help improve and enhance communications between parents, children and schools using technology in addition to more traditional methods.
in a survey that showed 82 per cent of parents want to be better informed
New report exposes the after-school communication challenge parents face. Becta calls for uptake of simple technologies to aid three-way dialogue between school, parents and children.
- Nearly a third of parents feel excluded by their children.
- Only 16% of children proactively talk about their school day.
- Children admit they want to keep ‘hassling’ parents away from school life.
- 82% of parents want schools to keep them better informed.
The majority of parents admit they don’t know as much about their child’s day at school as they would like, according to a new report commissioned by Becta, to support its Next Generation Learning campaign.
The survey of 1,000 children aged between seven and 14 years and 1,000 parents, reveals that 43% of parents admit they find it either difficult or very difficult to extract information from their child about their day at school.
Parents are not alone in facing this communication challenge: almost half of children (44%) don’t like sharing information with their parents, they like to keep their school day private; and over a third (37%) of children say they find it quite or very difficult to speak to their parents about their education.
Becta has commissioned child psychologist, Professor Tanya Byron, to explore the issue further and offer simple, practical solutions to help improve and enhance communications between parents, children and schools using technology in addition to more traditional methods.
