Parents as partners in learning

Clackmannanshire launched its Positive Coaching Parents’ Forum last night in Alloa. The approach highlights where sport fits into Curriculum for Excellence. Through workshops and targeted materials it helps parents understand how they can be their child’s biggest fan by understanding what “winning” really means and how success is achieved through effort. Parents seemed really interested, and clearly found it easier to see how they could support their child’s development in this way, rather than trying to understand too much detail of Curriculum for Excellence. It helped, of course to have some sporting world role models - Tommy Boyle, Judy Murray and Sir Bob Gammell were all there to lend support.
It is a great initiative to promote parental involvement and I will be really interested to hear how it progresses.

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