Comments on: Website Launch Date Set http://www.familyschool.org.au/2008/07/hello-world/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:16:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Brenton @ the Bureau http://www.familyschool.org.au/2008/07/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Brenton @ the Bureau Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:39:06 +0000 http://www.familyschool.org.au/?p=1#comment-121 Hi T Concerning your registration query: Registration provides subscription to the emailed newsletter and any individual announcements about Bureau activities, the ability to comment and respond to posts on the website, access to our online activities including participation in the forthcoming forums (online help facility), plus anything else you think appropriate. However, in this instance, our web manager had no record of a user registration from you. The fact that you had responded to an earlier post did not automatically register you, as people who respond to posts don't necessarily wish to register for regular updates, newsletters etc. But we have now ensured that your email address has been added to our list of registered users, thereby giving you access to all the above. You seem to be doing great work in your schools. I hope that the Bureau will be successful in persuading education authorities to better resource the kind of activities you are doing. Make sure that you check out the NAB initiative at schoolsfirst.edu.au They are calling for expressions of interest from schools with good partnership ideas and activities. Hi T

Concerning your registration query:
Registration provides subscription to the emailed newsletter and any individual announcements about Bureau activities, the ability to comment and respond to posts on the website, access to our online activities including participation in the forthcoming forums (online help facility), plus anything else you think appropriate.

However, in this instance, our web manager had no record of a user registration from you. The fact that you had responded to an earlier post did not automatically register you, as people who respond to posts don’t necessarily wish to register for regular updates, newsletters etc. But we have now ensured that your email address has been added to our list of registered users, thereby giving you access to all the above.

You seem to be doing great work in your schools. I hope that the Bureau will be successful in persuading education authorities to better resource the kind of activities you are doing. Make sure that you check out the NAB initiative at schoolsfirst.edu.au They are calling for expressions of interest from schools with good partnership ideas and activities.

]]> By: community worker http://www.familyschool.org.au/2008/07/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-119 community worker Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:17:41 +0000 http://www.familyschool.org.au/?p=1#comment-119 Hi thanks for the information, i registered with the above but have had no contact, what does registering achieve? thanks Hi
thanks for the information, i registered with the above but have had no contact, what does registering achieve?

thanks

]]> By: Brenton @ the Bureau http://www.familyschool.org.au/2008/07/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Brenton @ the Bureau Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:16:08 +0000 http://www.familyschool.org.au/?p=1#comment-52 During its current research into family-school partnerships, the Bureau has come across wonderful initiatives like the ones you have built up in your three northern suburbs schools in Adelaide. Like you, the issue of funding is a constant concern for those involved. Once the Bureau has completed its research report we will be focussing even more intensively on the question of resourcing for, and sustainability of, partnerships. From early 2009 we will be using the results of our research to advocate strongly for greater resourcing for family and community partnerships. We will be meeting with senior officials in education authorities, principals and professional organisations to seek genuine recognition of, and funding support for, partnerships. Some schools are already setting aside (albeit small) amounts of money as part of their local budget. Sometimes, school parent bodies have allocated funds to partnership activity from money they have raised. Elsewhere, energetic parents or principals have hunted out grants from various government, philanthropic or business sources. This sounds like the sort of thing you are already doing. One thing is very clear from the Bureau's research - the return on investment in family and community partnerships is very high. Modest amounts of money, mixed in with the huge goodwill and commitment of participants, deliver outstanding benefits to schools and to students, and are enormously effective in building social capital and strengthening community bonds. One of the Bureau's key tasks is to persuade decision-makers and budget-framers that family-school and community partnerships should be regarded as part of the core business of education,and a normal feature of how schools function. Only then will partnerships receive the funding attention that they deserve. In the meantime, have a look at the Schools First initiative at www.schoolsfirst.edu.au Sponsored by the National Australia Bank, Schools First is looking to reward those schools that are connecting well with their families and communities. During its current research into family-school partnerships, the Bureau has come across wonderful initiatives like the ones you have built up in your three northern suburbs schools in Adelaide. Like you, the issue of funding is a constant concern for those involved. Once the Bureau has completed its research report we will be focussing even more intensively on the question of resourcing for, and sustainability of, partnerships.

From early 2009 we will be using the results of our research to advocate strongly for greater resourcing for family and community partnerships. We will be meeting with senior officials in education authorities, principals and professional organisations to seek genuine recognition of, and funding support for, partnerships.

Some schools are already setting aside (albeit small) amounts of money as part of their local budget. Sometimes, school parent bodies have allocated funds to partnership activity from money they have raised. Elsewhere, energetic parents or principals have hunted out grants from various government, philanthropic or business sources. This sounds like the sort of thing you are already doing.

One thing is very clear from the Bureau’s research – the return on investment in family and community partnerships is very high. Modest amounts of money, mixed in with the huge goodwill and commitment of participants, deliver outstanding benefits to schools and to students, and are enormously effective in building social capital and strengthening community bonds.

One of the Bureau’s key tasks is to persuade decision-makers and budget-framers that family-school and community partnerships should be regarded as part of the core business of education,and a normal feature of how schools function. Only then will partnerships receive the funding attention that they deserve.

In the meantime, have a look at the Schools First initiative at http://www.schoolsfirst.edu.au
Sponsored by the National Australia Bank, Schools First is looking to reward those schools that are connecting well with their families and communities.

]]> By: community worker http://www.familyschool.org.au/2008/07/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-37 community worker Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:51:01 +0000 http://www.familyschool.org.au/?p=1#comment-37 I am a community worker employed by 3 schools in the Northern suburbs of Adelaide. This is a new project to these schools and it welcomes not only the parent community but also the wider community. We have some fantastic projects that have started in Term 3: We started 2 Playgroups at 2 sites, 1 has over 20 families attending and the other has 6 and is growing, we support learning and intervention programs within the these groups such as Lapsit and a future Sing & Grow group and we will be starting our 3rd Playgroup site in 2009. From Playgroup has come consultation with parents and community and we now have many more projects and ideas about what our parents want and NEED help with, some of those ideas were parent leadership and development couses, parenting courses, financial management, pathways to study and employment, creche, wanting to learn how to produce newsletters, healthy lunch box booklet, craft groups and active groups. My issue is that i have the parents and the community members with ideas to better equip themselves, i have the opportunity for early intervention, i have the space, i have school and teacher support, i have some community partnerships but where is the funding to further such projects within these schools that benefit not only the parent community but the whole community?? I have so far managed to obtain the odd small funding pot, but it certainly is time consuming and will not establish any of the future programs needed. One of my biggest challenges is establishing where i 'fit' within funding structures, being situated on Catholic School sites but not being under the school funding structures or Community houses. I would appreciate some advice, other than the usual funding websites, we need to know if there is specific funding for these sorts of parent/school/community sites. Thanks I am a community worker employed by 3 schools in the Northern suburbs of Adelaide.
This is a new project to these schools and it welcomes not only the parent community but also the wider community. We have some fantastic projects that have started in Term 3:
We started 2 Playgroups at 2 sites, 1 has over 20 families attending and the other has 6 and is growing, we support learning and intervention programs within the these groups such as Lapsit and a future Sing & Grow group and we will be starting our 3rd Playgroup site in 2009.
From Playgroup has come consultation with parents and community and we now have many more projects and ideas about what our parents want and NEED help with, some of those ideas were parent leadership and development couses, parenting courses, financial management, pathways to study and employment, creche, wanting to learn how to produce newsletters, healthy lunch box booklet, craft groups and active groups.
My issue is that i have the parents and the community members with ideas to better equip themselves, i have the opportunity for early intervention, i have the space, i have school and teacher support, i have some community partnerships but where is the funding to further such projects within these schools that benefit not only the parent community but the whole community??
I have so far managed to obtain the odd small funding pot, but it certainly is time consuming and will not establish any of the future programs needed.
One of my biggest challenges is establishing where i ‘fit’ within funding structures, being situated on Catholic School sites but not being under the school funding structures or Community houses.
I would appreciate some advice, other than the usual funding websites, we need to know if there is specific funding for these sorts of parent/school/community sites.

Thanks

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