Parental Engagement Network (Cic)

To us at PEN, good parental engagement means building and maintaining strong learning relationships with every family at your school. Parental engagement is an ethos, a mindset, a culture, and a set of behaviours that promote partnerships for life-long learning. Though there are many tools you can use to help, there isn't one quick fix. To commit to developing excellent parental engagement, you need to invest time. At PEN, all our work is governed by the knowledge that parents are their child's first educators and know their children best. We want schools and teachers to make the best use of parents, families and communities as valuable partners. Parental engagement is about schools and teachers engaging with their wider, less conventional resources to meet their children's academic needs. We work with you to develop a whole-school approach to parental engagement. We provide network opportunities via a closed network group, a parental engagement toolkit of resources, research, strategies, and access to subsidised or fully funded projects. All these things will support your school in reaching out to parents and building life-long partnerships for learning.