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Setting High and Fair Expectations with New Families Joining Your Alternative Provision

Win round a family who expected "a zoo", and set high, fair expectations from the first meeting at your alternative provision.

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  • 1 CPD hour
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Families often arrive at an alternative provision after an exclusion or a long run of bad news. The parent is angry with the old school and dreading calls from the new one, and the pupil half expects to walk into a zoo. What happens in that first meeting sets the tone for the whole placement.

You'll learn how to use it well. Tell the family plainly how you'll support them and what you expect in return, plan a staged induction on a reduced timetable, and ring home with good news as well as problems. When a parent or pupil won't come in at all, try a home visit or a friendly video tour of the building.

It's taught by someone who has worked in AP and placed pupils in it, drawing on research into six domains of family engagement and examples from real settings.

Modules

16 modules
  1. 1Introduction5 min
  2. 2Student Journey3 min
  3. 3Understanding AP and the Needs of the Students2 min
  4. 4Why Students and Parents Find Transition to Joining to AP Difficult2 min
  5. 5What are Student’s Understanding and Worries of an Alternative Provision2 min
  6. 6What are Parent’s Understanding and Worries of an Alternative Provision2 min
  7. 7Walking into an Alternative Provision1 min
  8. 8What the Transition Process Looks Like4 min
  9. 9Home – School Partnership5 min
  10. 10First Interaction is Vital3 min
  11. 11Student Induction2 min
  12. 126 Domains of Home and Family Engagement6 min
  13. 13What Can You Do as an AP to Support the Family?4 min
  14. 14Barriers that Still May Be Faced3 min
  15. 15Example of Good Practice1 min
  16. 16Summary2 min

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