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Source: RECAP Education News

Working Together - Pack

This pack provides user-friendly, interactive, fun and familiar tools to inform parents around the value of communicating with their child about learning and school, whilst providing the means to do so. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Parental engagement - Resources

This guide has been developed for those working with parents with children aged 5-19, to provide information and guidance around how the Parental Engagement resources can be used with parents. The resources are part of the wider DCSF strategy to increase parental engagement in their child?s learning and development published in the Children?s Plan: Progress report, December 2008. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Getting Into Homework

These resources promote consistency and persistence of communication around learning, encouraging ongoing contact with the school once the child has moved from Primary to Secondary. It provides triggers, practical solutions, ideas and encouragement to enable parents to proactively support their child?s learning in the home specifically around homework support. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Coaching Manual

This document is aimed at parents of teenagers aged 14 to 19 and addresses barriers to engagement (lack of time, confidence, not knowing how to help, etc), to help them to stay involved with their child?s education in the later stages of the learning journey. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Functional Skills Factsheet for Young People

This leaflet is aimed at young people and describes what the new Functional Skills Qualifications are and what they will mean to their futures, including further education and experience in the workplace. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

My Money Week 2010 - Activity Packs

Two activity packs are available with the aim of inspiring primary and secondary teachers and their students to get involved in My Money Week. The packs contain flexible activity ideas to help teach personal finance across the curriculum in My Money Week and beyond. These are the two packs:

• Primary activity pack
• Secondary activity pack

The packs cannot be ordered via the links above.

Embedding the Play Strategy

This document provides guidance for local authorities, Children?s Trust Boards and Local Strategic Partnerships on planning and sustaining provision for children and young people?s play and informal recreation. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Leading improvement in school and across schools

These materials provide the fifth in a series of ?Leading Improvement? professional development materials, which are intended to inform ongoing discussions focusing on the leadership of improvement at national, local and school level. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Support for All: the Families and Relationships Green Paper

This Green Paper sets out a wide range of measures to support all families as they bring up their children and help families cope with times of stress and difficulty. The proposals recognise that while all families need some help, there are families in our society with complex needs and others who require additional - and sometimes non-negotiable - support. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

RE non-statutory guidance 2010

This publication is aimed at local authorities, schools and education professionals. It aims to support the provision of high-quality religious education (RE) in maintained schools in England. It provides clear, non-statutory guidance about RE in the curriculum and the roles of those who have a responsibility for, involvement in or interest in the subject. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Impartial Careers Education Statutory Guidance: Resources Pack

This Resources Pack has been developed to help schools meet the challenges set out in the Department's strategy to provide young people with the information, advice and guidance that they need to progress successfully through learning and into work. It contains a range of materials designed to give practical support to help schools review and improve their provision. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Numbers and patterns: laying foundations in mathematics

This set of resource materials is intended to help practitioners working with children in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), and teachers working with lower Key Stage 1 children, to plan their mathematics provision and help children to secure some of the key mathematical ideas that they will use throughout the rest of their lives. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

The Pupil and Parent Guarantees

This document describes how the Pupil and Parent Guarantees work. It sets out what schools should do and how parents should support them and also explains what pupils and parents can do if they are concerned that they are not receiving something they are entitled to. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

My Money: Mathematics Resources

These resources provide mathematics teachers with a range of activities that explore many key issues, including savings and investments, currency exchange and income. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Moving on in mathematics: Narrowing the Gaps

This publication sets out ways to help primary schools to be more successful in narrowing the gaps in attainment in mathematics. It is intended to be used by mathematics subject leaders and class teachers, in collaboration with members of schools? senior management teams to support those who work with children to secure their learning in mathematics. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Children's Trusts: Improving Support for Schools

This short leaflet will help schools understand their role as statutory partners to the Children?s Trust. It briefly describes the new legislation; what Children?s Trusts are and why they are necessary; and the role of schools within the Children?s Trust as statutory partners. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Click Clever Click Safe: First UK Child Internet Safety Strategy

This strategy sets out what the UK Council for Child Internet Safety have done so far to keep children safe online; their commitments to parents, children and young people and the things they are planning to do to make them happen; and how you will know whether they are succeeding in making children and young people safer. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

PSHE: Curriculum Reform Consultation Report

This consultation document examines the concerns raised by making personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education statutory. These key concerns include pressures on the curriculum, the role of governing bodies and the parental right of withdrawal from sex and relationships education. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Statutory Guidance: Impartial Careers Education

This guidance advises headteachers and teachers-in-charge about how to meet their statutory duties in relation to careers education and ensure that the young people for whom they are responsible receive the support they need. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.

Using Support and Talk for Writing

Support for Writing and Talk for Writing are Primary Framework resources which provide support for teachers focusing on personalising planning for progression in writing. These leaflets folds out into posters that explain how to use the Support for Writing and Talk for Writing processes. Further information and download instructions are provided on the Teachernet website.