Parents Section
The Learning Curve Planners were designed and written by an experienced teacher to enable parents to contribute more to their children’s education.
Unfortunately, adolescent children rarely want or allow their parents to be involved in their education; it is a natural consequence of puberty. In combination, the Learning Curve Planners and website assist with building sustainable and transparent learning partnerships within school communities by regularly connecting students, parents and teachers. They provide regular opportunities for parents to be part of their children’s learning.
There is a concise Parents’ Guideon how the Learning Curve can be best used to assist our children.
To ensure that parents feel empowered to be contributing partners in their children's Primary or Secondary education, a series of weekly articles has been provided in the Newsletter Articles section on this website. The articles explain how parents can assist in their children's learning and development by encouraging them to adopt the tips in the weekly and specific focuses in the diary planners.
Also provided, in the Newsletter Articles section are a series of articles titled Attendance: It’s not OK to be away that explain the adverse effect poor attendance has on children's learning; they are to the point and frank, particularly in relation to parent condoned absences.
The focuses titled MyChecklists in the downloads below provide Parents with a framework that enables them to regularly monitor and contribute to their children’s learning progress:
Junior Secondary- Checklist page 5
Middle Secondary – Checklist page 5
Senior Secondary – Checklist page 5
To assist their children to think through projects and issues in an organised step by step manner, available for Parents are Thinking and Organisational Tools to download:
Pluses, Minuses, Interesting(PMI)(.pdf)
Know, What, How, Learnt(KWHL)(.pdf)
Think, Pair, Share(.pdf)
Glad, Mad, Sad(.pdf)
The Hand(.pdf)
Y Diagram(.pdf)
The Issues Matrix(.pdf)
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats(SWOT)(.pdf)
Urgency versus Importance(.pdf)
Musts and Options(.pdf)
Health and Safety at School(.pdf)