Projects

 

 

Helping Schools to achieve high quality parental engagement

 

Townsend Consultancy Ltd provides advisory support to schools to help them to engage more effectively with parents. Much has been written about the important role that parents can play in encouraging their children to learn.  Involving parents in home-school reading schemes, family literacy initiatives and other joint activities have been shown to improve children’s levels of attainment, their attitudes to learning and their levels of achievement.  We work with each school individually to improve their levels of parental engagement.  We believe that all schools: primary, secondary, special, faith, and free schools can benefit from high quality parental engagement.

 

Townsend Consultancy Ltd also provides support for schools that have signed up to achieve the leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA). The LPPA is a quality mark, developed by Prospects, which provides a challenging yet rewarding framework to enable schools to strengthen their partnership with parents and carers. It is a developmental process which, through the involvement of parents, staff, and pupils, aims to enhance children's life chances at all stages from nursery to secondary.  This award is designed for schools that are committed to investing in parents for the achievement of children.  Training, professional development and consultancy are provided for individual schools and organisations and for groups of schools or organisations.

 

 

Providing consultancy support for schools and academies

Townsend Consultancy Ltd has provides consultancy support to a wide variety of schools:

  • Faith Schools
  • Single sex schools
  • Co-educational schools
  • Academies
  • Grammar Schools
  • Special Schools

 

Examples of projects have included the following:

  • Identifying barriers to underachievement and educational transformation
  • Continuing professional development
  • Providing support with the development of School Improvement Plans
  • Setting up successful adult and family learning programmes
  • Raising the levels of inclusion for students, staff and the wider school community
  • Community Cohesion and Pupil Voice, pupil surveys

 

 

Researching and writing educational publications

Townsend Consultancy Ltd has written the following articles for publication:

 

Parental Engagement – School Improvement and Inspection magazine

Forum Business Media 2011

 

Community Cohesion Update – guidance for schools

Forum Business Media 2010

 

Adult Learning in Specialist Schools – Planning for Effective Practice

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

ISBN 1-905-150-63-6

 

Building Links with Parents

Secondary Headship magazine 2007

 

Schools are for Adults too – Adults Learning magazine

NIACE 2007