Family Engagement: Network With Julie Westrop
- 4th Oct 2022
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This is the second year of our Family Engagement Network meetings. The half termly online meetings are intended for those working with families, for example as parent support advisers, family engagement officers, attendance workers or pastoral team members. They provide valuable opportunities for both network members and our highly experienced family engagement and support network leader, Julie, to share resources, practice, successes and difficulties in order to develop individual working practice, confidence, knowledge and skills.
Our next session on 21st June will be based on Meaningful consultation and decision making with parents
Subsequent network session content will be co-created between participants and Julie.
4.10.22 Promoting positive relationships between home and school
30.11.22 Engaging all parents in supporting their child's learning
10.1.23 Supporting parents with parenting
28.2.23 Working with parents to support children's positive emotional health
25.4.23 Supporting families with transitions
28.6.23 End of year review and planning for 2023-4
This is the second year of our Family Engagement Network meetings. The half termly online meetings are intended for those working with families, for example as parent support advisers, family engagement officers, attendance workers or pastoral team members. They provide valuable opportunities for both network members and our highly experienced family engagement and support network leader, Julie, to share resources, practice, successes and difficulties in order to develop individual working practice, confidence, knowledge and skills.
Our next session on 21st June will be based on Meaningful consultation and decision making with parents
Subsequent network session content will be co-created between participants and Julie.
4.10.22 Promoting positive relationships between home and school
30.11.22 Engaging all parents in supporting their child's learning
10.1.23 Supporting parents with parenting
28.2.23 Working with parents to support children's positive emotional health
25.4.23 Supporting families with transitions
28.6.23 End of year review and planning for 2023-4
"As usual I've got a lot from our latest session - I've just looked at the resource you shared and it's exactly what I needed for the last 9 months trying to get anxious children through the doors in the morning" June 2021
Throughout her career as a teacher, senior leader and senior adviser for a local authority, Julie’s work has focused on inspiring , enabling and empowering all parents and schools to work in partnership in order to ensure best outcomes for each child, not only in terms of their academic achievement but also their emotional health and well-being.
She currently provides consultancy , advice and training to schools across the U.K. on how to do this, drawing on a wealth of experience and research in the field of stakeholder engagement and parental support for learning.
Cafés for All®, (A2E2’s ) highly successful whole school approach to parental engagement and support for learning, is now used in 600+ UK schools