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To develop a more positive feel, create a social club. Nothing like sharing a beer with a parent and talking to them about the students.

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More opportunities to share learning of students.  eg. PBL displays

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More opportunities to share learning of students.  eg. PBL displays

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lots of them!

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Non formal gatherings at school to celebrate the school.

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Non formal gatherings at school to celebrate the school.

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teachers include hosting meals with parents families - engaging with families on a semi-personal level

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teachers include hosting meals with parents families - engaging with families on a semi-personal level

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breaking down invisible barrier of home and school community

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Letter to Whanau/family at the beginning of each term from each class to explain what will be happening over the term.

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Letter to Whanau/family at the beginning of each term from each class to explain what will be happening over the term.

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Offering new and exciting initiatives to bring whanau closer to the learning environment. this can be student or teacher led.

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Famlies part of discussions Eg Chromebooks

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Hands on learning.
Students can lead their learning and have an understanding as to what they are learning and why.
Parents are engaged in our learning.

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Involving whanau in the teaching of key concepts or specific skills or knowledge in the classroom.

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Develop an atmosphere where whanau feel free to come to school and chat in a non judgemental environment.

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have toddler playgroups; read to dogs, entertain rest-home residents, have a community garden

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A whare for the community to use

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make sure we run termly events that include staff and whanau/community, could be arts events, sports events, parent teacher days with shared food.

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Community working bees (someone else said it, I like it)

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Parent evening based on parents Vs teachers sports/cultural activities.
ie create situations where parents WANT to come to school

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Utilize the new whare to have families in constantly. place they can be part of. Help make lunches, morning tea, get a chance to be part of the school

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Small group interviews with students working on similar activities so that even the parents can collaborate as well.

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Cultural experiences led by families for students Eg Polyfest and Kapa Haka

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Find out what works best for each individual family rather than they have to be here on a certain day in a certain location

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As many families work, we should be exploring digital ways of interacting with them- beyond blogging e.g chat forums, video conferences for those who cant get in for parent teacher meetings.

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Utulizing people in the community to teach and collaborate with our teaching community to design curriculum

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Utulizing people in the community to teach and collaborate with our teaching community to design curriculum

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Families come in to help in CARR cafe

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Community events held at school
Eg Garden day/Working Bee - families come in to work on the school garden

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Home visits

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Give option of whanau evenings at home or traditional 'at school' parent/tchr interviews

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Run events, movie evenings, how to raise teenagers, etc for parents to attend.

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Increase School to Whanau Cell Phone Communication

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Increase School to Whanau Cell Phone Communication

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If we have a larger capacity to send information via cell phone we can improve efficiency of school to home communication.

Could we also provide education to parents around google drive and get them to download the app on to their phones for easy access to their students work??

Honor

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Have  students design a task for parents / whānau and bring them into school to teach them eg. Writing or responding to a blog