AMIOWN'S PARENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

Recent studies show, that when families are involved in the education of their children in positive ways, the children maximize on their untapped potentials and are more regular to school and demonstrate positive attitude and behavior.

The foundation for good parent teacher relationship is, frequent and open communication, mutual respect and a clear understanding of what is best for each individual child.

At Amiown we completely understand the importance of the early formative years, and the sensitive role of parents along with teachers, wherein we foster your child's learning through joint efforts of parents, teachers and the school. When parents and teachers share responsibility for creating a working relationship, it helps a child blossom and reach his/her full potential. We at Amiown are trying to achieve the same through our many initiatives some of which are listed below:

1. Parent orientation: We begin our session with a parent orientation program where we share in depth Amiown's philosophy and practices with parents. Parents also spend the rest of the orientation day with children in their classrooms, so that together they can enjoy the new learning environment and all that it offers.

2. Amiown News Bulletin: At Amiown we keep our parents well informed of what's happening and what's about to happen in days to come through email communication and online forums.

3. Saturday connections: On the first and the third of each month parents can meet our teachers in person for any concern of theirs with a prior appointment through email or the almanac.

4. Individual Parent Counseling sessions: Individual counseling sessions help parents to work through and support their child's individual learning needs. At times the school identifies the need to work closely one-on-one with parents and at times parents reach out for more customized support.

5. Parenting Workshops: Based on the acute observations of Amiown classrooms, including the child behavior, peer group interaction, child teacher interaction and findings of ongoing research, our in-house expert's design and tailor-make different workshops from time to time. Because we at Amiown believe in not only taking the children along but we also feel it is our duty to sensitize parents towards their crucial role in the development of their child. These workshops are generally held on the 1st and the 3rd Saturdays of the month. By virtue of conducting these workshops we make sure to empower the parents so that they can make the best of the formative years and are equipped to handle the challenges of the 21st century parenting.

6. Parent teacher Collaboration days: During a working session Amiown holds 3 to 4 such sessions for parents to discuss the progress of the child and assess the overall development.

7. Grandparents, Mama and Papa day: Since Amiown believes in involving the families, an extension of the same is our initiative to celebrate Grandparents day, Mama's day and Papa's day. Grandparents and Moms and Dads come with their children to celebrate togetherness, where they become a part of the Amiown classrooms and together do activities along with them, play games and enjoy with their grandchildren and children and relive their childhood days through the eyes of their little ones. This initiative also helps in strengthening the bond and attachment between the children and grandparents or parents.

8. Amiown Open house: It is our constant Endeavour to make our children's learning visible. Frequent open houses allow children to revisit their learning along with their parents. Extensive documentation and display of children's learning makes this possible and facilitates the sharing done by children with their parents.

9. Parent as Volunteers and Parents as resources: We welcome parents to volunteer and extend their services and talents to add value to our concept delivery. In the past we have had dentist parents take a session on dental hygiene, doctors conduct eye screening camps, artists lend their creative inputs etc.

10. Graduation day: This is celebrated to mark the end of the session when our children graduate from Pre-nursery to Nursery and from Nursery to KG. Parents and teachers join hands once again to ensure smooth transition of our little ones to new classes and portfolios and assessment reports are shared and given to the parents.