This week we had a really good meeting of our Parent Council and I want to thank the senior pupils, parents and local councillors who attend these meetings.\u00a0 It really does help to share ideas and shape the thinking of how we keep the school moving forward.\u00a0 This is a fairly brief blog sharing some ideas with\u00a0parents on how they can help their children do well at school:<\/p>\n
Routines:<\/strong>\u00a0 routines\u00a0matter as they provide structure – particularly first thing in the day, on getting home from school, on doing homework\u00a0and before bed.\u00a0 Take time to set some routines which work and stick to them.<\/p>\n Peace and time to offload<\/strong>:\u00a0 Build in some\u00a0‘quiet time’\u00a0for your child, away from social media and the ‘noise’ of everyday life as well as some ‘chat time’ where they can offload some of the burdens of\u00a0teenage life<\/p>\n Sleep is essential<\/strong>:\u00a0 no phone, social media, screen time in the half hour before going to bed,\u00a0absolutely none overnight and it does not need to be the first thing they go to in the morning<\/p>\n Preparation and processing<\/strong>:\u00a0 Preparation is about being ready for school both actually (the right books and equipment etc) and mentally (being ready for the ups and downs of the day).\u00a0 Processing is about stepping back from it and sorting out the important stuff (organising your thoughts\/notes, meeting the deadlines, being clear what you need to work on to improve)<\/p>\n Keep channels open:<\/strong>\u00a0over the secondary years your child grows up and that can bring its challenges.\u00a0 Many become pretty insecure as they try to figure out who they are, what others think of them and where they are going.\u00a0 Put social media into that mix and it can be an emotional\u00a0roller coaster.\u00a0\u00a0We need parents to step back and offer some perspective (not jump in and ride the wave with their child).\u00a0 Be there for them, listen, let them consider the options and guide them.\u00a0 Accept that they may make bad choices but be there for them when they do and help ensure they do not keep repeating bad decisions.\u00a0 But try to be there for them, through thick and thin,\u00a0as they can feel the world is against them and often it is.<\/p>\n We\u00a0are here to support families and to help young people “be the best they can be”<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Please get in contact\u00a0if you need our help.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week we had a really good meeting of our Parent Council and I want to thank the senior pupils, parents and local councillors who attend these meetings.\u00a0 It really does help to share ideas and shape the thinking of how we keep the school moving forward.\u00a0 This is a fairly brief blog sharing some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parents","category-pupil-participation","category-weekly-blog","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}