Parents, Early Years and Learning: Parents as Partners in the Early Years Foundation Stage - Principles into Practice

Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 11
2 The Early Years Foundation Stage: Parents as partners......Page 15
Statutory Framework......Page 16
What parents do is more important than who parents are......Page 19
Why is the impact of home learning in theearly years so strong?......Page 22
Are some parents just not interested?......Page 27
Factors that impede involvement......Page 28
Parents’ experience of services......Page 29
5 Respectful relationships......Page 37
Knowing more about families......Page 39
Equal partnership......Page 47
6 Involvement at the heart of practice......Page 53
Sharing regular two-way observations and supporting learning at home......Page 54
Sharing educational aims and practice......Page 58
Making everyone feel welcome – reaching out......Page 62
PEAL model......Page 67
7 Practice examples......Page 69
Sharing observations, knowledge and practice......Page 70
Under threes......Page 86
Getting out and about with parents......Page 90
Taking learning into homes......Page 95
Involving fathers......Page 99
Transition to primary school......Page 101
The PEAL journey......Page 103
Learning into action......Page 110
Start a project, no matter how small......Page 115
Go on further training......Page 116
Appendix 1: PEAL practice example: Home visits......Page 118
Appendix 2:What does your setting do with parents already?......Page 120
Appendix 3: The PEAL team......Page 122
References......Page 125
Resources......Page 128
Index......Page 135