Project 2014 St Oswald’s CE Primary School. Aims Improve basic skills of ‘Hard to Reach’...

Project 2014 St Oswald’s CE Primary School

Aims• Improve basic skills of ‘Hard to Reach’ families in

Radom, Poland and Sefton LA through a specifically designed family Information Technology programme

• The IT programme will be delivered in conjunction with the Higher Education Teacher Training Institutions in order to give trainee teachers early understanding of involving parents in the education process

Outcomes

• It is anticipated that this intervention will impact upon pupil standards and raise attainment levels across all curriculum areas whilst also giving the adults in the programme valuable employability skills

• In the second year of the project the intervention will be given an Action Research framework in order that the outcomes can be validated

Who?

• Nursery (3 and 4 year olds)• Then opened it up to Reception (4 and 5 year

olds)

How?

• Invitation letter sent out to all parents on the basis that most fulfilled criteria

• 9 parents attended

• Commenced March 3rd 2014, 12.15 – 1.45pm for 5 consecutive weeks

When?

Considerations

• Morning nursery children to stay in school and a have packed lunch

Questionnaire

• Most parents/carers indicated that they had the skills identified

• It was the APPS that they needed guiding towards, and how to use them

with their child

Parent/Carer responses to what ICT they had at home…

• Laptops • Printers• Playstations• X boxes• DS• Wii• iPads• Tablets

• Iphones• Smart TVs• Ipods• Leap pads• Web cameras• Innotabs• Blackberry

Focus on Sock Puppet…

Beebot…

Sound Drop…

mark making and drawing.

Next Steps

• Course written – need to update/refine• Baseline and post-course assessment of parent

skills – need to refine• Inclusion of qualitative feedback?• Review home tasks• Consider specific means of tracking of pupil

(skills? language? use?)and progress made• Next course: ‘Dads and ipads’ - Where does it fit

in with other courses?