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Calton Hill Primary’s Action Research: iStop @ Calton Hill Primary“Cyber-Connection with the Community” Using the school website to build a stronger 

connection with families and bring more parents into the school.

Background  We had a school website that was hard for staff to use and could only be

accessed on the school adminstrator’s computer at school.

   Newsletters not always getting home to parents so necessary information notalways getting to parents.

  We have an awareness that parents are wanting up skilling in computingskills.

  We wanted more parents to come into the school to strengthen the home-school partnership so that parents can keep in touch with what the children

are learning.  This is a continuation of the Computer in Homes Programme the ran in 2008

Proposal

  Create a website that staff where updates could be made from any computer at school and home.

  Use our new website to promote our school and post all important notices.  Setting up internet quick stops (iStop @ Calton Hill) for parents to quickly

check school notices and school activities. With strict regulations in place,adults can even check their own personal emails or blogs in hope encourage

more parents onto school grounds.  Block modules for computing skills will be made available.

 What we did

  Created a new school website with Edublogs through the guidance of the

ICTPD co-ordinator (Iain Cook-Bonney)  Promoted our website through our newsletters, emails and word of mouth

  Setup two iStop stations.  Conducted a Computing survey of families.

 What we found out Summary of the Survey for Parents and Caregivers at our school  

  68% of the students’ parents/caregiver at Calton Hill Primary responded tothis survey

  For the purpose of this study, parents and caregvers will simply be referred toas “adult(s)”

Computer Access:

  82% have access to computers.  63% have Internet at home.

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  Where to next

  We have only hit the tip of the ice-berg, there is still a lot of work to be done.

We need to expand our website as the capacity of our Edublog site is toosmall we are still researching possiblities of using free sites to link up with to

host our material.  Set up a couple more iStops around the school.

  Offer more computing classes to parents, students and staff.  Connect all computers to the web.

  Create interactive whiteboards  Conduct another survey to see if we have increased our connections with the

community.  Continue to liaise with other schools and share our baskets of knowledge.