SUMMARY+OF+PROJECT



During Term 2 2009 I initiated discussions with the School Principal, staff, School Council President and my mentor to discuss the proposal of looking at how the communication between home and school could be increased. The idea of starting with the Parent – Teacher interview process was that this is an even platform where both teachers and parents meet to discuss student achievement.  Together with the staff we discussed issues related to home-school communication and wrote the question to guide the research **//: “How can communication between home and school be improved so that it enhances student learning and family connectedness to school?”//** Questions for the survey were devised commencing with collecting information on the parent-teacher interview process and also providing an opportunity for respondents to add improvement suggestions and to indicate information that they want to find out and also to indicate the types of communication that they find useful.  I began with a pilot project where I had discussions with teachers and families no longer associated with the school. The purpose of this was to check whether any questions on the survey needed to be altered. The questions weren’t altered but it was discovered that questions 1 and 4 were misleading during the collection phase from the school community.  Term 3 has been spent trying to collect data through follow-up phone calls and additional survey forms sent home for completion.  The collation stage will take place during Term 4 with the intention of information being presented on this wiki, various forums at school and personal replies to each of the respondents. The improvement strategies will be discussed and implemented where appropriate during 2009 and 2010 in consultation with the school community.