ejourneys

Our school day with students finished after period 4, lunchtime. All students went home on the bus and after lunch, parents were invited to come in to our school and speak with teachers. This can be a challenging and testing time and often the parents you would really like to speak to, do not make the effort to come.

Most of the afternoon, I was kept reasonably busy with parents, but later in the afternoon and after tea, I had students ’dragging’ their parents in to the computer room, where I was stationed, to show off their blogs. Some of these younger students are ‘bits of stugglers’ but parents sat with them, were rather amazed at the blogs and then proceeded to help them add content, correct spelling and suggest improvements. I had to do nothing but listen and ’smile’. Parent partnerships are such a necessity and here it was happening before my eyes with absolutely no organization on my part. I even had to ask one lot to leave as we were locking up the school – interview times had finished!!!

I have a very large group of grades 4/5 combined, with mixed ability levels. I have a couple of students who every lesson, cant even logon. So, we gradually get started but sometimes dont complete a lot. Now, I think I will open up that class periodically (or all the time) to parents who wish to come in, sit with their child and work through blogging with them and perhaps ’adopt’ some other children as well.

Parents were  shown how to add comments, so it is hoped that those who have the internet at home will do so.