Parent partnership meetings are an important part of children's learning and the starting point for creating a respectful collaborative partnership with the families at Woodlands.
Partnerships are a way to shows families that we value their knowledge and voice.It is important at Woodlands we build on and maintain respectful, supportive relationships with families. It is a way for Families to have opportunities to be involved in the service and have the ability to contribute to educational decisions that effect their child/ren's learning needs and development.
When and how are Parent partnership meetings conducted at Woodlands?
The formal partnership meetings will be taking place a minimum of 2 times per year, 1st one in January, then the next in June. These partnership meetings will support you to gather documentation that will directly support you to gather children's individual goal and be able to support a part of your evidence in the Curriculum planning.
This document is to be shared to families once you as the Educator/Teacher have put together strategies that support the conversation had with the families.
NOTE: If families can't make it due to work or other commitments, then don't force them. If they are unable to make the scheduled time and date you have booked, they try to talk to them through drop of and pick up if it is suitable. If the meeting is still not available for the family, then fill in the educator and strategy section.
Accessing/navigating partnership meeting with families.
When sending communication out to families, send: (2 weeks prior to expected partnership date)
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Dear families, We would like to welcome and invite you to book in a Positive Partnership Meeting with myself (enter name); your child's primary educator. Our partnership meeting will be shared on Playground/Xplor to ensure you are aware of the discussion, the meetings can be either over the phone, or in person in the family lounge area and will only go for about 10/15min. The aim of these regular meetings is for us at Woodlands to have the opportunity to sit down and have a discussion about your thoughts and educational needs for your child, and as the Teacher/Educator, I along side the team will build on strategies that will support you and your child's needs and voices. To foster a genuine commitment to, and the value of parent’s and educator’s/teacher role in developing children at Woodlands Long Day Care & Kindergarten, we invite all parents to make an appointment. This meeting will be to discuss yours and the educator’s/teacher's plans, goals and development of your child. Communication Options:
In-Person: Parents are welcome to come into the Woodlands Campus and sit down with their child's teacher.
Phone Call: Your child's teacher will call you on the nominated phone number.
Google meets: The Leadership team will support your child's teacher to organise a google meets at the appropriate time.
Note: families need to stick within the dates and times specified, this is the time the primary educator will be off the floor. Dates: Enter date of partnership meeting. Time frame available: (example 10am-2pm,) Attach link to book Positive Partnership Meeting or attach the google meets link: (attach link to 'campus appointment' calandly). Please comment with the time you are available bellow. Thank you (sign of with your name) (position in Campus) |
NOTE: Parent Partnership meeting's are to be scheduled on 'Calendy'
this can be booked with the support of your Leadership team.
These meeting need to be collaborative, meaningful, respectful and not just Teacher/Educator led.
Parent partnership Education meeting extended guide.