Term 1 Parent Teacher Meetings

At Dayboro State school parents are invited to meet with their children’s teachers twice yearly to discuss student progress.  Parent-teacher meetings help parents and teachers find ways to work together to ensure every student’s success at school.

The teacher will probably show parents some samples of their child's work, and may discuss their child's progress, marks, homework and behaviour. The teacher may also ask parents about any concerns that they have about a student and discuss any extra support, or extension, programs being provided for that student. The meeting is also an opportunity for parents to ask questions about their child's progress and to find out if their child is having difficulty with anything in particular.

Some suggestions to ensure a positive and successful parent-teacher meeting may include:

• Talk with your child about how school is going for them before the meeting
• Prepare a few notes/ questions about what you’d like to discuss with the teacher
• Be on time and stay calm
• Ask for explanations of anything you don't understand
• Respectfully discuss differences of opinion
• Create an action plan
• After the meeting, talk about the conference with your child. Emphasize the positive points, and be direct about problems that were discussed. If you and the teacher created an action plan, explain it to your child. Make sure that your child understands that you and the teacher created this plan to help them. Keep in touch with the teacher.

If you need to, further meetings can be organised with the teacher. At Dayboro we know that teachers and parents working together as a team enhances the chances of school being a happy and successful learning environment for everyone.

Regards, Linda Smith

(Head of Department-Curriculum)