Pride : parent's role in drugs and safety education / Manchester City Council Education Department, Inspection and Advisory Service.

  • Manchester (England). City Council.
Date:
1997
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Credit: Pride : parent's role in drugs and safety education / Manchester City Council Education Department, Inspection and Advisory Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * Some schools found that if the project couldn't be done in a half term it still worked if the six weeks spanned a half term holiday. Parents found this useful because they could catch up with the home activities during the holiday. ¢ Think about what topic this could fit in with - eg. Ourselves, Healthy Living, Life and Life Processes, Safety, Healthy Eating etc. It can be useful for several teachers to do the project at the same time as they can help and support each other. Involve bilingual / section || teachers and other staff, such as the school nurse, from the beginning. @ Present Experience Draw on your own experience of existing parental involvement within your school. ¢ If you hold successful parents' meetings already - include positive elements from these meetings. ¢ If your children already share home activities with their families - fit the PRIDE Project into your existing programme. ¢ If you have regular parent helpers enlist them to help children whose parents are unable to offer support. @ Resources To do the home activities parents will need glue, scissors and crayons. * parents may not have these resources to carry out the activities at home. Can you - loan them? /] Q sell them at cost price? FGF, IN give them to all parents? give them to parents who ask? You will need to decide this now and order resources accordingly. It is important to have something on offer or you could prevent some children from taking part. @ Planning Include the class activities and follow up activities in your planning. It may be useful to have a whole school assembly around a safety topic to launch the project. @ Planning the Parents' Meeting Decide on a date, time and venue for the Parents’ Meeting. ¢ Is morning or afternoon best? Just after the beginning of the day or before the end of the day are usually better for parents. Or could you do both? * What about a meeting after school / in the evening for working parents? * Can you offer a creche for pre-school children or provide toys/activities to keep them occupied/quiet? * Can you offer refreshments? It’s best not to charge for refreshments when you expect parents to come to a meeting. * Do you have all the resources you need - eg. OHP / flip chart? (see section 3 on Parents’ Meeting). @ Introducing the Project Talk to your class about the project. Make a big thing about how exciting it will be. Introduce the characters to your children. You may wish to give them names or choose names for them with the children. You could make puppets out of the characters on pages 45 - 46 and use them to introduce the project.