Home School Links SIMS Learning Gateway

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Home School LinksSIMS Learning Gateway

• Ruth Walker
• Partnership Manager

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Parental involvement

• Research shows that parental involvement
• in their childrens learning positively affects
• the childs academic performance (Fan Chen,
  2001)
• in both primary and secondary schools
  (Feinstein Symons, 1999)
• leading to higher academic achievement, greater
  cognitive competence, greater problem-solving
  skills, greater school enjoyment, better school
  attendance and fewer behavioural problems at
  school
• (Melhuish, Sylva, Sammons et al., 2001.)

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Parental Priorities
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South Dartmoors Vision

• Improve parents access to Childrens Learning
  data.
• Provide on-line workspace for every student.
• Further embed ICT into the school curriculum.
• Extend anytime/anywhere communications.
• Improve the management of differentiated and
  personalised work.
• Consistent surveys for all stakeholders.
• Reduce Schools environmental impact.

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SIMS Learning Gateway

• Proved an important part of the strategy
• Providing parents with access to their childs
  information
• Attendance
• Timetable
• Teachers
• Assessments
• Basic data
• Surveys
• Directed resources
• Discussion forums

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The SIMS Information

• Using demonstration
• site to protect the innocent

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South Dartmoors Vision how are they doing?

• Improve parents access to Childrens Learning
  data.
• In progress and steadily increasing
• Provide on-line workspace for every student.
• All Students now have this provision
• Further embed ICT into the school curriculum.
• The amount of on-line curriculum resources is
  ever increasing.

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How are they doing?

• Extend anytime/anywhere communications.
• Gateway is available 24/7
• Improve the management of differentiated and
  personalised work.
• Platform facilitates this

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How are they doing?

• Consistent surveys for all stakeholders.
• Analysis is also much easier and faster
• Reduce Schools environmental impact.
• Annual Saving of 2k on paper

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Parents Views

• great for working mothers/parents
• time-saving finding out up to date teachers from
  the timetable
• Cool to know the day I need to pack his PE kit
  ! !
• really powerful being able to check up my
  childs attendance, and its instant and live
• Parents from South Dartmoor

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Students Views

• from there I can get straight in to the VLE
  (Learnwise) if I want to
• as a sixth former I have found it extremely
  useful to double-check my attendance record so
  that I get my EMA payments
• Brilliant because mum dad check my attendance,
  lesson registrations and assessments but so can
  I.  This means I can stay out of trouble!!
• Students from South Dartmoor

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Students View

• useful for allsorts of things that previously I
  would have had to ask for or wait for the school
  to send home
• I needed to find out when I was officially on
  holiday Took me seconds via the Gateway
• my teachers change round every half term,
  sometimes more often than this.  The timetable
  always shows the right teachers.
• Students from South Dartmoor

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SIMS Learning Gateway

• Improving Home School Links
• Logon at www.sims.co.uk/gatewaydemo