Parent Meet - parents meet, discuss and share!

I want to share with you a successful Parent Meet event that I organised on the behalf of our English department. I invited a selected number of students and their parents to the event based on KS3 English data and teacher feedback.

It's not parents evening as parents were encouraged to discuss with other parents their own strategies for developing their child's learning. The parents also completed English writing and reading games alongside their children to send the message that learning English is fun!

Takeaway:
Parents were given a question and answer booklet, that I created, in order to teach their children key terms for English. You can download a copy for yourself here! The booklet has a series of subject based questions (alongside their answers) for parents to ask their children on a weekly basis. After a term, I can already see the positive impact it is having on our selected KS3 students' progress in English.

Go for it! Set up a parent meet event at your school and see how it goes!

 

AQA English Language and Literature B PLCs for questions 1 and 2

PLCs (also known as personal learning checklists) have proven to be an essential tool in improving my KS5 students' understanding of their own targets and areas of strength. The PLCs below strive to give each student an idea of which band they're on whilst clearly signposting their next D.I.R.T targets.

Question 1 Students simply highlight what they forgot to do by looking at the band above the one they achieved.

Question 2 PLC Students tick each skill according to the band they feel it is at. This enables students to oversee their overall band and to identify which skills they need to develop in order to achieve their highest band potential.

Literacy peer-assessment checklist

Here's an example of a literacy peer-assessment sheet I developed in order to increase my students' consideration of their literacy skills. I will improve this sheet by linking it to our department's literacy marking codes and by providing a literacy 'cheat sheet' (a literacy map at the back of the sheet) in order to assist the peer assessor with the assessment of their classmate's literacy skills.