Parental Engagement Network is grateful to have been awarded funding from a number of bodies. For more details of the projects please see below.
Manchester: Active Families
We are celebrating after being awarded £314,000 of National Lottery funding from Sport England to help low income families in Manchester get active with their children.
Lambeth: Mouse Club & Home Learning
Walcot Foundation, an independent charity working within Lambeth, have funded us to roll out Mouse Club transition and home learning project to 10 schools in Lambeth.
Liverpool: Engaging Parents Effectively
OVO Foundation has funded us to roll out the Mouse Club transition and home learning project to 8 schools in Liverpool and look at how to sustain and further the work for a second year.
Suffolk: Partnerships with Parents
PEN has been awarded a grant from the Suffolk Community Foundation to enable primary schools to and secondary schools to develop their parental engagement.
Moving Up to Secondary School
PEN received an Awards for All Grant to develop a project on engaging and supporting parents at the point of transition into High School.
Engaging Parents Effectively
PEN developed exciting new parental engagement strategies and resources as part of a national research project to support the engagement of disadvantaged families in the early years.
I have gained skills in engaging parents in an informal, non-threatening way. I will definitely take forward plans to run termly workshops in the future due to increased confidence.
Teacher, Hollingworth Primary School
Engaging Parents Effectively Project
I have enjoyed spending time with the parents and children and watching their confidence grow. I have loved how some parents in particular have been so proud of their work and have rushed in in the mornings to show me what they have done with their children.
Nursery Teaching Asssistant, Oasis Academy Harpur Mount
Engaging Parents Effectively Project
I feel more welcome in school because they’ve done that. We’ve had conversations and there’s some kind of rapport – I feel listened to. I feel more confident around school and they want to work in partnership with me and not just as they wish. I’m taken notice of.
Parent, Argoed High School
Moving Up Project
Looking at the completed activities was invaluable in helping me get to know the child and their family.
Form tutor
Moving Up Project
It really helped to be able to sit down and talk about the changes that would be coming up.
Parent, Argoed High School
Moving Up Project
It has helped children prepare better and become ours faster. Pastorally I think it’s helped immensely.
Assistant Head, Byrchall High School
Moving Up Project