Parent Support
Parental influences have a powerful effect upon young people’s attitudes, achievements and life outcomes.
We are fortunate at Northgate and The Bee Hive to have Family Support Workers who work hard to bridge the support between home and school, and provide vital family support when there is a need.
Their role is to assist in tackling underachievement by working in partnership with families, parents, carers and pupils in a school context to enable pupils, particularly the most disadvantaged, to have full access to educational opportunities and overcome barriers to learning and participation. They work directly with parents in a non-judgmental way empowering them and their families to get the most out of the educational opportunities available.
Our Family Support Team focuses their work on preventative and early intervention activities. They work and support all families, focusing on parents and families whose needs are below the thresholds that trigger the involvement of specialist services and other agencies.
Such agencies and professionals encourage good relations and effective dialogue between parents and teachers about the young person’s progress and ensure parents feel confident to engage with their young person’s learning by facilitating and arranging Adult Learning courses at parents and carers request.
Along with this, they support parents of children with early signs of social, emotional, health or behavioural issues and work with them, school staff and other support agencies to prevent problems worsening or interfering with the children’s ability to engage in school and learning.
Our Parent & Carer Forum
Northgate School Parent Forum was established to provide our parents with an opportunity to ‘have a voice’ within Northgate, encouraging parents and carers to become more involved with school life to support their child’s education. We also listen to what our parents and carers say, and enable them to gain useful information by sourcing speakers from a variety of organisations and support groups, who come into school and provide bespoke advice. We also look at supporting our parents and carers through courses available from Adult Learning.
Often, we meetup just to have a chat with other parents and carers, and this networking creates a great support and often long-lasting friendships.
Feel free to contact them when you need support.
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