Parents and family learning
PAIWAND
This case study describes how a large Afghan supplementary school pro-actively searches out partnership with the mainstream sector to increase impact on learning, behaviour, parental commitment and social cohesion.
Anglo-Spanish Day Nursery: Early Learning
At this Anglo-Spanish Day Nursery in Clapham, South London children from all cultural backgrounds are cared for and are given a fully bilingual early education. Children generally attend the nursery for three years and leave fluent in Spanish and English, if not more languages depending on their backgrounds. Staff at the Anglo-Spanish nursery have also found that the earlier a child begins to learn a foreign language, the quicker they attain fluency in the language and the easier they adapt to nursery care.
Anglo-Spanish Day Nursery: Community Cohesion
At this Anglo-Spanish Day Nursery in Clapham, South London, children from all cultural backgrounds are cared for and are given a fully bilingual early education. Gloria Gómez Canal, who co-runs the nursery, explains how bilingual children are more culturally aware and behave better than monolingual children.
Rustam Iranian School
This large Iranian supplementary school is a registered OCR examination centre and has 300 children attending. The school runs from maintained school premises and it has set up their own library and has access to the computer lab. Parents are actively involved in their children’s learning and children set their own learning targets.
Whitefield School
This case study describes how a Full Service Extended school is using its relationship with a complementary school to support the learning of Afghan students, improve attainment in core curriculum subjects, improve behaviour and attendance, and encourage greater involvement of parents.
Family Learning at Levenshulme High School
The case study describes the provision of Arabic Language lessons at Levenshulme High School and the case of one family who engaged in family learning through the free Saturday lessons on offer at the school.
Cardinal Newman Catholic School
The case study describes why and how partnership in the Polish language and GCSE exams was developed between a maintained and a Polish complementary school, and the positive impact the collaborative work has had on both schools in terms of pupil motivation and confidence.
Asian Resource Centre
The Asian Resource Centre runs a complementary school teaching eight community languages. They are an approved OCR, ICAA/EDEXCEL and AQA examination centre and work in partnership with a maintained school to use their premises. Both schools share good practice, test results and performance monitoring of pupils and help each other when needed.
