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Monitoring the agreement
The guidance suggests that:
It is important to evaluate the effectiveness of home-school agreements. Schools should find ways of monitoring the agreement, for example, through keeping tabs on issues as they arise, reflecting on policy and, most importantly, through feedback. Parents, staff and pupils should be asked for their views on what worked and what could be done better.
Schools need to develop systems for:
- Keeping tabs on issues raised. This might be done using a log where home-school agreement related queries are all recorded, or a record kept by individual form teachers and collated on a weekly or monthly basis.
- Getting feedback from parents, staff and pupils about the agreements. This could be done using a meeting or a questionnaire.
The information gathered can be used to inform governor and senior management discussions about parental attitudes to wider issues, as well as about attitudes to parents in the school. This is likely to be particularly useful when reviewing discipline, uniform and homework policies.
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