This Reception Open Evening Presentation is a clear, engaging and informative resource designed to support communication with parents at the start of the school year. It provides a comprehensive overview of life in Reception, including key information about the EYFS curriculum, daily routines, continuous provision, and how children learn through play. The presentation also highlights the importance of the Characteristics of Effective Learning, helping parents to understand how their child will develop skills such as independence, resilience and confidence. The slides cover essential information such as staffing, school expectations, communication methods, transitions into Reception, and ways parents can support their child at home. It also includes sections on forest school, buddy systems, and practical routines, helping to build strong home-school partnerships from the outset.

Two different home-school communication books that allow a teacher to write messages for the parent about the child’s behaviour that day as well as spaces for the parent to write messages back and even for the children to write their own reflections about their behaviour. Why do you need this? These communication books promote transparent communication between teachers and parents regarding the child’s behaviour. Parents receive firsthand information about their child’s conduct at school, fostering trust and collaboration between home and school environments. The books enable teachers to provide timely feedback to parents about the child’s behaviour on a daily basis. This allows parents to stay informed about any issues or successes promptly, enabling them to address concerns or reinforce positive behaviour effectively. What is included? 2 different versions of a home-communication book. The first one shows boxes for what went well and what was difficult and then boxes for children to reflect on their emotions. The second has boxes for what happened in the morning and afternoon and then a box for the child’s comments and a box for the parents comments.

Editable report format for end of EYFS Reception year - easy to complete and simple for parents to read and understand.

NEW for 2026 DfE RSHE Guidelines - in this PSHE lesson students will discover how to maintain healthy brain development, from pre-natal care, to baby care, right the way up to adulthood. They will investigate the effects of good parenting on children, what this looks like as well as the negative effects of outside/environmental influences such as screen-time on the developing brain. Lasts one hour, editable, could be used for KS3 or KS4. This lesson has been created specifically to cover the new RSHE DfE guidance, specifically: **HPP7. **The importance of healthy behaviours before and during pregnancy, including the importance of pre-conception health, including taking folic acid DB2. The facts about puberty, the changing adolescent body, including brain development. F7. The roles and responsibilities of parents with respect to raising children, including the characteristics of successful parenting and the importance of the early years of a child’s life for brain development. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk **Who are EC Resources?** EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children's Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Please visit our Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. We still offer a free lesson of your choice for each time you leave a review! Just email info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our [Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group,](https://www.facebook.com/groups/2069848026578974/) with 12,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

Parent Meeting & Communication Record Pack | 31-Page Printable PDF (Non-Editable) Staying organised for parent meetings and keeping track of communication is essential for every teacher, but it can often feel overwhelming. This Parent Meeting & Communication Record Pack provides you with ready-to-use templates that make record keeping simple, professional, and reliable. This 31-page PDF (non-editable) includes a wide range of forms to help you document meetings, communication, observations, and follow-up actions with ease. What’s Included: Customisable cover pages Multiple Parent Meeting Record Forms to suit different needs Communication Logs for phone calls, emails, and conversations Student Observation Templates for evidence-based discussions Teacher Follow-Up Note Pages to track next steps Key Benefits: Stay organised – no more scattered notes or forgotten details Look professional – polished forms to share with parents and leadership Save time – simply print and use Protect yourself – clear records for accountability and evidence Support student progress – track communication and follow-up consistently Product Details: 31 pages PDF (non-editable) Printable and ready to use This pack is an essential resource for any teacher who wants to reduce stress, save time, and feel confident going into every parent meeting. Please check your printer settings prior to printing (A4 - print to fit, etc.)

This is a document to keep track of each parent communication. This is a great way to help you remember and build that positive relationship with parents.

Teacher to parent phone call and message scripts in different scenarios. This builds great relationships with the students and parents, as well as gaining support from home for the students. Suggested script parent doesn’t agree with you parent talks about irrelevant issues parent moans about the school parent becomes aggressive termination of a call no answer message starters parent doesn’t answer - negative message positive message time limit call

A comprehensive training PowerPoint for ‘communicating with parent/carers’ this will help improve the confidence of staff for dealing with parental/carer communications. The Powerpoint can be edited to reflect your settings context. This would be suitable for a whole school INSET, twilight, ECT training session or useful as a basis for a project for aspiring middle leader/senior leaders. For more information, visit my instagram page @inclusiontrainingforall

Deliver this powerpoint to parents and carers of pupils with SEN about communication and interaction needs and strategies to support at home

A short form to record notes from phone calls, emails or meetings with parents. I have found it very useful to keep track of and recall communication with parents. Also a second form to help plan communication with Parents and record discussion highlights and action points. Hope you find it useful, Feedback welcome on resource.

A calm, professional toolkit to help schools communicate clearly and consistently with parents across the year. Created by a UK headteacher, this editable pack includes ready-to-use templates designed to save time while improving home-school engagement. What’s included: “What is my child learning this term?” template Example version for Year 1 Annual parent-facing curriculum and enrichment overview Editable “Dates for the Fridge” calendar Template wording for school website or termly letters Ideal for: Headteachers and deputies SLT, admin and office staff Class teachers writing parent updates All documents are in Word and fully editable. Created by The Clear Voice for Education — practical, time-saving tools for school leaders and teachers, built from real experience in UK schools.

Parent Communication Templates – Ready-Made Scripts, Emails & Behaviour Messages- forms part of our SEMH bundles. Improve home–school communication with calm, consistent, professional templates. This pack contains a full set of editable parent communication templates designed to save teachers time while ensuring messages are clear, supportive and consistent. Perfect for behaviour updates, praise messages, attendance concerns, academic feedback, meeting arrangements and sensitive conversations. These templates follow a calm, neutral and non-confrontational tone that helps maintain positive relationships with families — even during challenging situations. What’s Included A full collection of templates for: Behaviour & Pastoral Communication Low-level behaviour reminder Repeated concerns Positive behaviour praise Restorative follow-up message Notification of removal / referral Academic Communication Missing work / incomplete homework Poor effort or focus Praise for progress or attitude Requests for support at home Attendance & Punctuality Late arrival follow-up Attendance concern message Escalation stage communication Sensitive Conversations Emotional wellbeing concerns Friendship issues Social difficulties Start-of-term check-ins Preparing for meetings with parents Meetings & Phone Calls Requesting a meeting Confirming details Professional call script After-meeting follow-up General Templates First contact Newsletter-style updates Positive shout-outs Achievement postcards Why Teachers Love This Resource Saves hours of drafting messages Ensures calm, predictable and consistent language Reduces miscommunication and tension Suitable for all staff, including ECTs and pastoral teams Fully editable to match your school’s tone Perfect For: Class teachers Pastoral & behaviour staff Form tutors ECTs needing confidence with wording SEN/SEMH communication Whole-school behaviour systems Check out our Ultimate bundle which provides ready-to-use interventions, staff CPD, behaviour systems and pastoral tools designed to improve behaviour culture, strengthen SEMH support, and save schools significant planning time. Ultimate Pastoral & Behaviour Bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13371703 Full Pastoral / SEMH / Behaviour walkthrough: https://youtu.be/hMq-SpVy2Wo

This is an editable communication book (although you can not edit/extract clipart - these are protected to reserve the rights of the fantastic clip artists), for you to be able to communicate with students families/carers back and fore School and home, keeping everyone up to date on student(s) individual progress, behaviors/behaviours, moods etc. You can add text and change text for different parts of the home/school book. It comes in PDF (non editable), Keynote (editable) and Powerpoint (editable) options for your preference. It comes with British & American spellings. This is especially great for a special education class, the pages come as the following; ♦ choice of covers ♦ staff in class, students in class ♦ weekly planner ♦ daily conversation page The daily conversation page is laid out with different boxes and two comment boxes; one for school to fill in and one for parents to fill in.

A really easy to use Parent Discussion Meeting Template. This will help you to make sure all the relevant information from a meeting is captured in one place with ease. The actions table will ensure this one sheet can be copied / scanned / emailed across to all relevant parties involved so that actions can be completed quickly and efficiently by all members involved.

A quick and easy checklist to make sure that you include the right questions in your parent announcements by Karen Dempster and Justin Robbins.

A 24 slide lesson achieving the following objectives: By the end of this session you will be able to: Define Parental Care Explain the Different Forms of Parental Care Give Example of Species which use the Different Types of Parental Care

Use this Daily Behavior sheet for communicating with your parents. This behavior log or behavior report that can be sent home each night with the children. Use for pre-K, Kindergarten, or early elementary grades, or even Special Ed classes. Just put a check mark in the column for the day of the week, on the row for the behavior indicated. You can add comments at the bottom if needed. Parents can initial nightly if you wish. Good way to start back to school classroom management. - HappyEdugator ©2016 HappyEdugator. All of the activities included in this product are the intellectual properties of Deborah Hayes aka HappyEdugator. This resource is for classroom or homeschool use and is intended for the purchaser. Duplication for other classes, for other teachers or for use in wide distribution is not allowed, but you may purchase extra licenses at a 50% discount! :) This material is protected under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. U.S. spelling. If you wish for me to convert to U.K. spelling, I will be happy to do that for you. Just send me an email, and let me know what needs to be changed. - HappyEdugator

One aspect of teaching we will all need to tackle at some point will be an angry or annoyed parent or guardian. By being open, inviting and personable your students’ parents will be impressed with you and the way you manage your classroom. A miscalculated response can backfire, fan the flames of an upset parent and burn the bridges between home and school. This in turn can cause a lot of damage whether there was a basis for the anger or not. So this encounter needs to be turned into an opportunity for everyone – parents, student and teacher. Although much of this is common sense I have pulled together this ten page booklet with some suggestions for successfully defusing such a meeting before, during and after it arises.

Free ongoing Teacher/Communication Record. Digital and printable. Keep track of contact with parents throughout the year.

I delivered this CPD session to all members of our staff team who maintain regular contact with parents and other stakeholders, in a bid to improve the quality, accuracy, and clarity of our written communications. I’d recommend that the session takes about 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes to deliver. We had received some negative feedback comments, regarding our communications, varying from examples of poor grammatical accuracy, to instances in which the tone of emails, letters, and other forms of correspondence were perceived as rude. It is surprising how common this is across schools, and how little training is provided on these forms of interaction. Following this training, we are receiving far fewer complaints, and many staff members now keep the help-sheets pinned up by the desks to refer to when communicating with parents. Participants learn through: - Participating in a fun pub-style quiz to eradicate common spelling, punctuation, and grammar misconceptions and errors; - Considering the role of parents, their needs and interests, and what they expect from their child’s school, as a means to understand why schools sometimes receive difficult communications; - Reading and analysing examples of poor written correspondence, considering how both the tone and the accuracy can be improved; - Exploring different language strategies to create a personal, polite tone within emails, by considering the connotations of different words; - Taking away help sheets that can be referred to whenever written communications are being drafted. The resource pack includes: - Colourful and engaging whole-session PowerPoint presentation ; - Examples of written communications for participants to analyse; - Quiz answer sheet; - Accurate Written Communication help-sheet; - Polite Written Communication help-sheet. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide. (Please note that the only section of the PowerPoint that you may wish to modify is with regards to the distinct features of parents at your own school - Aside from this, the resources are good to go!)

Every parent communication you have ever rewritten three times, every meeting you walked into underprepared, and every concern letter you agonized over alone at ten o’clock at night ends here. This is not a template pack. It is a complete, consultant-grade parent communication system built specifically around your school, your students, and your professional voice, delivered through an intelligent guided process that thinks the way an expert educational communication strategist thinks. The output covers every communication scenario a teacher faces across an academic year, from progress reporting and parent meeting frameworks to sensitive concern letters, achievement recognition, and end of year structures, each one written to the standard of a seasoned professional who understands the legal, cultural, and relational weight that school-home communication carries. What takes experienced educators years to develop intuitively and communication consultants thousands in fees to produce manually, this prompt delivers in a single focused session, producing documents that are immediately usable, professionally credible, and specific enough to reflect your actual classroom rather than a generic school somewhere that does not exist. For teachers who are serious about the quality of their professional relationships with families, who understand that how a school communicates with parents is as important as what it communicates, and who refuse to let time pressure reduce their professional standards to rushed emails and recycled phrases, this is the system that finally meets that standard. It protects your time, elevates your professional reputation, and ensures that every family you work with receives the quality of communication their child deserves.