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02 June 2004

the team at Pen Green Centre for Under-fives and Families, Corby, Northamptonshire

Practitioners find certain strategies prove especially effective for involving parents in their children's learning Our first major research project, which was funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust from 1997 to 2000, enabled us to look more closely at effective ways of involving parents in their children's learning.

Our first major research project, which was funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust from 1997 to 2000, enabled us to look more closely at effective ways of involving parents in their children's learning.

Clearly, all parents are different, so it was unhelpful to talk about parents as though they were all the same and would be interested in attending just one kind of meeting. We also found that all of the parents were interested in their own children's development and learning. Most parents using Pen Green Nursery at that time wanted to be involved in discussing their children's education.

However, they were not all available at the same time, because of family pressures and work commitments. We realised that we needed to offer a range of ways in which parents could be involved and to allow them to choose whatever suited them best. We did not judge parents on the basis of how often they attended.

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