Parenting Support

Each family is unique and special and every parent matters. The issues facing families are varied and parent support activities will be wide ranging. Cheryl Taylor is the Parent Support Advisor (PSA) for the NECIP.

Cheryl says ‘My role as a PSA is to encourage you as parents and your children to get the very best from school and to help and support you with any concerns you may have to do with parenting issues. I hope to help you with worries you may have in relation to your child’s education, behaviour or attendance, and provide you with support and strategies on how best to deal with it. I will be able to find the right individuals or organisations to provide the support you need. I plan to arrange some activities in schools to offer support to families. Flyers will be sent home, or keep an eye on the ‘News’ section of our website. Or if you just need your confidence building, some more support in a particular area or just a listening ear (or two!) I am available.”

Please get in touch with Cheryl
E-mail: ctaylor@courtlanejnr.portsmouth.sch.uk
Mobile: 07932 602622

“Alternatively you can let someone at school know and they will contact me on your behalf.”

Click here for a useful website for parents

Why reading and sharing stories matters

• It's the most important thing you can do to help you child succeed. Research evidence shows that your involvement in your child's reading and learning is more important than anything else in helping them to fulfil their potential.
• Books contain new words that will help build your child's language and understanding. Children who are familiar with books and stories before they start school are better prepared to cope with the demands of formal literacy teaching.
• Reading together is fun and helps build relationships.
• The impact lasts a lifetime. Readers are more confident and have greater job opportunities.
• Children learn by example, so if they see you reading, they are likely to want to join in. Reading with children, or talking about what they have read, is a wonderful way to show that it is an important and valued way to spend free time.

Finding and choosing books - Click here for great resources

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The internet is such an integral part of children's lives these days. It opens up so many educational and social opportunities, giving them access to, quite literally, a world of information and experiences.

Whether on a computer at school, a laptop at home, a games console or mobile phone, children and young people are increasingly accessing the internet whenever they can and wherever they are.

As you would protect your child in the real world, you will want to make sure that they are safe whatever they are doing. Like learning to cross the road, online safety skills are skills for life. If your child understands the risks and can make sensible and informed choices online, they can get the most from the internet and stay safe whilst doing so – particularly from those people who might seek them out to harm them.

So, how can you protect your child online?

The answer is simple. If you understand the internet and understand what the risks are, there are a number of things you can do that will make your child safer online...

Monday, 15 March 2010

“One hundred years from now..... it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money was in my bank account nor what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a better place because I was important in the life of a child."