Introduction
This support package on parents' evenings contains a range of staff development materials designed to help schools think about improving parents' evenings and other meetings and events which allow parents to meet with teachers to discuss their child's progress.
Schools arrange many other kinds of events for communicating with parents but these will be considered in the package on sharing information.
A parent-friendly leaflet that highlights the difference that parents can make by attending parents' evenings. This leaflet is available through schools or can be downloaded from this website.
PDF file: Making the Difference - Parents' Evenings
An HTML version of the Making the Difference - Parents' evenings leaflet is available on the Scottish Executive website.
Schools may wish to use this leaflet as the basis of their own communication with parents or schools may amend the text as appropriate to suit local circumstances.
More detailed practical information about parents' evenings is also available on the Parentzone website. Schools may wish to use these materials to enhance the information made available to parents through the leaflet.
'Making the difference' is a series of information packages for parents and schools to support parents' involvement in their children's learning.
The format of the packages is designed to be as flexible and adaptable as possible, enabling local authorities, schools and parents to draw on and combine the materials in ways that best suit their local wishes and circumstances.
'Making the difference' is produced by:
