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Enhancing Girls' Attainment through Parental Engagement

Maxwelltown High School's initiative aims to boost girls' achievement through parental involvement, teacher collaboration, and targeted support. The program tracks progress, promotes communication, and encourages shared responsibility.

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Enhancing Girls' Attainment through Parental Engagement

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  1. Dumfries and Galloway Maxwelltown High School Raising the attainment of girls Contact details for more information: Rachael Williams, DHT, Maxwelltown High School (gw08williamsrachael@ea.dumgal.sch.uk)

  2. Aim and drivers Possible theory of what actions can be tested to deliver the drivers PDSA ideas Aim Primary drivers Secondary drivers Parental meetings at regular intervals to discuss progress (aligned with parent evenings?) Parent / pupil / teacher feedback on weekly targets Parental Involvement and engagement Parent meetings and improved communication and liaison Parental input to program Shared parent / pupil / teacher responsibility for weekly targets For all S4 girls in deciles 1, 2 and 3 to achieve in line with national expectations by August 2015 High levels of attendance at school and increased engagement with classes Plan weekly mentoring Identify support opportunities Review of data at meetings Promotion of supported study opportunities with pupils and parents Assertive 1:1 mentoring and continuous monitoring and sharing of data EMT awareness and involvement in the program Individual teachers contribute to weekly plans and communication between teacher and pupil is improved More teachers become involved as the program spreads Information sharing at meetings PT and teacher enhanced involvement Teacher and pupil involvement and engagement

  3. What measurements are we planning to make?

  4. Tracking Progress Measures We have a Glow group (restricted to teachers involved in mentoring) Once the tracking sheet is set up, we all add our data as we get it.

  5. Does the parental engagement at the start have an impact on the rest of the project? Does parental engagement improve over the year? What lessons have been learnt and what changes will be made for the next time? The new arrangements for engaging with parents demonstrate that improvements have been made.

  6. Lessons learnt and next steps • Key successes • Significant improvements made to communication with parents. • Very positive teacher views regarding the impact on the engagement of the pupils involved. • Greatest challenges • Paperwork • Maintaining focus on the RAFA groups whilst managing competing demands on time • Next steps for improvement: • Rolling out the programme to more pupils and involving more teachers in target setting and mentoring • Taking the lessons learned so far and using the data collected to impact on other improvement areas

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