Getting Involved with Your Child's Education

If you would like to take a more active part in your child's education, there are many things you can do to get involved. These may range from helping staff to run extra activities to becoming a parent governor.

In this section, we take a look at some of these roles in more detail, along with the importance of supporting the school by participating in home-school agreements and parents evenings.

Parental Responsibilities: Making sure your child attends school regularly ...
Home-School Agreements: Setting out the roles for the partnership between the school, the pupils and parents ...
Parents' Evenings: How to prepare for the meeting and what to do on the night itself...
Parent Governors: Become a member of your child's school's governing body ...
Parent Governor Representatives: Represent the views of the parents in your area at local authority education meetings ...
Parent-Teacher Associations: Help to contribute to the social side of school life by joining the PTA ...
Annual Parents' Meeting