Parent Transition Project Hounslow

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Parent Transition Project Hounslow

• Information for Borough Steering Group
• Georgie Edmonds
• Project Officer
• Extended Schools Central team
• georgie.edmonds_at_hounslow.gov.uk
• 020 8583 3462

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DCSF Initiative

• The Family Parenting Institute and 4children
  have been commissioned by the DCSF to roll out
  the Starting school programme across the
  country in liaison with local authorities .
• Hounslow is planning to use a multi-agency
  approach working in partnership with schools
  involving BEST, PCT, SEN section, Advisers, EW
  Service, Metropolitan Police, ESCO Central
  officers.

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Strategy group for the Parent transition Project

• A local working party has been set up to take
  this initiative forward and ensure that this
  programme complements current provision.
• Working party members
• Val Blackwell (General Adviser, transition)
• Heather Sullivan (Head teacher Alexandra Juniors,
  Chair of transition Monitoring Group)
• Jean Innes (Team Leader Hounslow BEST)
• Stephanie Collis (Community Officer, Berkeley
  Primary)
• Maeve Begley (ESCO Feltham Hanworth)
• Georgie Edmonds (Project Officer Extended Schools
  central team)
• Andy Prindiville (Deputy Head teacher Gunnersbury
  Catholic School)

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Facilitators

• Fifteen facilitators have been trained to support
  the roll out of this initiative.
• Apinder Sidhu (Central Hounslow)
• Sue Hoad (Chiswick Brentford)
• Pat Kirkwood (Feltham Bedfont)
• Maeve Begley (Feltham Hanworth)
• Debbie Squires (Isleworth)
• Junior Taylor (Heston Cranford)
• Joann Bird (Feltham BEST)
• Stephanie Clancy (Hounslow BEST)
• Ella Taylor (EW Service)
• Natalie McKeever (Marlborough Primary)
• PC Andrew Minshaw (Met Police)
• PC Angela Rusby (Met Police)
• Kathy Watters (SEN Central team)
• Stephanie Collis (Berkeley Primary)
• Georgie Edmonds (Extended Schools Central team)

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Aims of the project

• To offer one off support sessions for parents
  with children at transition age (KS2-KS3)
• The content of the sessions is to focus on the
  needs/concerns of the parents
• Parents will feel better equipped for transition
  time
• Hounslows Transition offer will be more
  consistent across the borough
• Parent sessions will take place during the Summer
  Term 08
• To research a borough wide pilot for Early Years
  transition to school

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Background

• All schools are offering some form of transition
  information,but this offer is varied.
• EWO BEST regularly meet with targeted families
  and survey their needs. Schools benefiting from
  BEST already receive thorough programmes aimed to
  engage and inform parents at key transition times
• Transition sessions that occur at present are
  geared around information schools need
  parents/children to know and most have a more
  formal approach

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How is this initiative different?

• It is aimed specifically at what the parents
  identify as their needs (not their children's or
  the schools)
• This is the first transition project with a
  multi-agency approach at its outset that will be
  rolled out across the borough.
• All parents will receive a support pack to
  accompany the transition session held at their
  school

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Action plan Timeline

• All facilitator training completed by Autumn term
  07
• Planning of delivery content of sessions Spring
  term 08
• Meeting with Year seven representatives Spring 08
• Roll out of one off sessions Summer Term 08
• The strategy group meets every term
• Facilitators will meet to plan in the Spring term
  08 and after sessions have been delivered to
  evaluate in the Summer term
• Early years transition pilot cluster tbc