Your Influence on Your Child's Learning
As a parent/carer, you can have significant influence on your child’s learning.
You are an important role model for your child, which means that the way that you think, behave towards and talk about things will in turn affect how your child thinks, talks about and behaves towards these same things.
Think about how you approach the following:
- meeting deadlines
- being positive
- being creative
- coping with difficulties
How you deal with these, and other day-to-day tasks, helps shape your child’s attitudes and behaviours. Positive attitudes and behaviours are essential components of successful learning.
You play a fundamental role in your child’s learning.
Did You Know……
- Your interest in your child’s learning has a huge effect on what your child can achieve at school. In fact, it has more impact than your level of education.
- Being interested and involved in your child’s learning does not mean that you need to know about the subjects they are studying.
- “If they (parents) weren’t interested, then you (the child) wouldn’t be”
- a pupil’s view on why parents’ support matters.
- Your role in your child’s learning at home makes the biggest difference to what they can achieve.
- Children spend roughly only a quarter of their waking time in school.
- “If they didn’t want you to do well, then you wouldn’t want to do well because it wouldn’t make much difference”
– a pupil’s view on why parents’ support matters.
