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NEMS Parental Engagement Programme

We believe passionately in helping all of our students reach their full potential, we provides opportunities for parents to engage with their child's learning and develop a better understanding of engagement strategies and their child's learning needs.

This includes:

  • Recognising the central role of parents in the teaching and learning and process.
  • Informing parents of student study programmes in advance so they can offer support where necessary.
  • Providing the tools, resources and guidance parents need to support their Child's learning.
  • Receiving a minimum amount of face-to-face contact with teachers during the School year.

Our Uniform

NEMS Starters uniform has been designed based on a 5 C Criteria-Comfort, Cloth, Colour, Culture and Cost. The unique selection of different colors for boys and girls is another innovative effort to enable the kids to enjoy and class rooms will look like a flower garden of blended colors.

Boys:

  • Bright Blue Shirt (half sleeves) with contrasting dark blue borders
  • Soft and stylish colors
  • Dark blue pants
  • Dark blue socks and dark blue Shoes

Girls:

  • Pleasant Pink pinafore with contrasting dark pink inner shirts
  • Soft and flower type colors
  • Dark pink Leggings
  • Dark black socks and dark black Shoes
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A Note from Trustees

Delivering quality, learning, providing exceptional opportunities and ensuring the wellbeing and happiness of our students and their families are what, we at NEMS Education drive for every day. Our relationship with the parents and that between our class teachers and our students is vital to us, hence we are continuously looking at ways to build and enhance our collaboration with parents.

It is our goal to continue the longstanding tradition of partnering with families to provide positive learning experiences that leads to growth and success of the students. Our vision of 'Integrated Learning (ILM)' will provide opportunities to our students to learn everything they require to lead a successful life, from school itself.

Our staff desire to know each student personally and to help them reach their maximum potential. We strive to develop each child - morally, academically and social - with an Islamic aspect. We also want to infuse students, a strong sense of PRICE, demonstrating Personal Responsibility, Respect, Integrity, Compassion, and Enthusiasm both in and out of school.

Each day brings new opportunities, and we continually use reflection and evidence-based decision making to foster continuous improvement.

Regards,
NEET Trustees

Parents

A children's future is the shared responsibility of the family and school.

As we prepare a children to enter society in the best manner possible an alignment of family and school system is critical.We work jointly with parents, involving them as partners in making the best decision concerning their child's development and education.

NEMS Starters committed to build meaningful relationships with all our parents. We believe that Parents are first teachers and backbone of the children's education.Thus keeping this in mind, NEMS aims to focus on developing the child. We planned to conduct parent's orientations and regular periodic sessions in pedagogy/parenting with Islamic perspective throughout the year. Parents will have a strong communication link with parents about the development of their child.

Parent Engagement

Together we dream, believe, achieve leaving a memory of a remarkable journey.

The key words "together" and "sharing" place parents at the heart of our child's education. While teachers are there at the front of the classroom, in the family, you come home to who provide an essential foundation for successful life. That's why we believe that parental involvement in school is so important.

Research regularly demonstrates how essential parent engagement is to an excellent education. To make sure our pupils are given the very best start, we are keen to develop strong partnerships with the parents of our students.

Research has shown the importance of parents engagement in the success of your child's education. We want the best for your child, and by working in partnership we can successfully enrich your child's journey through NEMS.

Parent Communication

Close communication is at the core of our partnership approach. Keeping parents in the loop regarding their child's progress is an essential part of what we do. From consultation and written reports, to an open door policy and regular opportunities to speak privately with staff, we ensure parents have access to all the information they need. Of course, parents are always welcome to speak one-to-one with any member of our teaching staff in confidence.

International research about Parent engagement in school

International research supports that Parental Engagement impacts student achievement. More specifically, current research underlines the effectiveness of this strategy the parents to do something with their children.Talk,Share,Encourage

Professor John Hattie, Auckland University, New Zealand, conducted a 15-year analysis (published 2009) of 50,000 studies involving 83 million students to see what worked in education.

He found a combination of parental encouragement and high parental expectations was the critical elements in parenting support.

The effect of Parent Engagement' over a student's school career amounted to adding an extra two to three years education to the student.

This parent engagement includes setting goals, displaying enthusiasm for learning, encouraging good study habits, valuing enquiry, experimentation and learning new things, and the enjoyment of reading.One of the most influential literature reviews, carried out by leading educationalists (Anne Henderson and Karen Mapp), concluded that studies showing the benefit of parent schools in keeping the achievement of young people. He determined that the more parents and children talk about meaningful subjects, the better students achieve.Desforges' review in 2003 The findings can be taken as conclusive until there is strong evidence to the contrary.

Parent support effects in learning

Every three years, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests 15-year-olds in the world's leading industrialized nations on their reading comprehension and ability to use what they've learned in math and science to solve real problems - the most important skills students need to be ready for the world.

Looking beyond the classroom to better understand why some students thrive taking the PISA tests while others do not, the PISA team interviewed the parents of 5,000 students about how they raised their kids and then compared responses with student test scores. The research team uncovered a set of parental actions with profound discoveries:

  • Fifteen-year-old students whose parents often read books with them during their early school years show markedly higher PISA scores than students whose parents read with them infrequently or not at all. (On average, the score difference is 25 points, the equivalent of well over half a school year.)
  • The performance advantage among students whose parents read to them in their early school years is evident regardless of the family's socioeconomic background.
  • Parents engagement with their 15-year-olds is strongly associated with better Performance in PISA.
  • Parent surveys started with four countries in 2006, and grew to an additional 14 in 2009 and reached the findings above by 2011. PISA is conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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Parental Engagement - How it should be

The PISA team also discovered that simply talking to and asking your child how their school day was, and showing genuine interest in their learning can have the same impact as hours of private tutoring.

The team determined this was something every parent could do, no matter what their education level or social background.

  • The PISA study also noted that on average, the score point difference in reading that is associated with parental involvement is largest when parents read a book with their child when they talk about things they have done during the day, and when they tell them stories. The score point difference is smallest when parental involvement takes the form of simply playing with their children.
  • At fifteen years old engagement was based on talking to the child about current events in the news, or discussing books, movies, and media.
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The involvements relate to higher student performance

In an article published in The American School Board Journal, November 2011, Patte Barth, Director of the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education, reported that parent involvement affects student achievement. It yields somewhat surprising results:

Parent involvement can take many forms, but only a few of them relate to higher student performance. Of those that work, parental actions that support children's learning at home are most likely to have an impact on academic achievement:

  • Monitoring homework, making sure children get to school, rewarding their efforts and talking up the idea of going to college are linked to better attendance, grades, test scores, and preparation for college.
  • Getting parents involved with their children's learning at home is a more powerful driver of achievement than parents attending P.T.A. and school board meetings, volunteering in classrooms, or even showing up at back-to-school nights

Every parent has something to offer

Conversation is at the heart of positive parental engagement. It's not necessarily about sitting with your child and helping them with their homework. Every parent, regardless of their culture, language or experience, can talk to their child and show an interest in their learning. By asking questions, listening and encouraging you child with praise and direction, you can reinforce learning and become an active partner in the educational process.