At Stepney Park we work with our parents because we know that this is the best way to achieve excellent outcomes for our children.

Parental engagement is supported by our fabulous Pastoral Care Team (PCT).

                     Khaleda                                   Shipa                                   Tom                                 Shapna

                        

The PCT supports families and children.  They help find solutions to financial issues and support parenting, attendance, health and well-being. The PCT runs a variety of workshops and programmes for parents on supporting children's learning and parenting.  They also support with admissions. The PCT are available for Bengali translation.   They are welcome to suggestions and ideas for what you want us to provide.

Our dedicated Pastoral Care team have a wealth of experience and training and liaise with parents and offer support. The support may include:

●  Referral to parenting classes

●  Signposting to housing/benefit support

●  Signposting to a range of borough service   

Below are the opportunities we offer at school

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Walk n Talk Group

By popular demand, the Pastoral Care Team have organised a Walk and Talk Group for parents.  The aim of this is to develop relationships in the community, support people learning English, explore the local area and keep fit. This will run every Thursday at 9.15 (meet up outside Smithy Street gate).  The group will be led by Shipa.

            

                                                  At Victoria Park                                            At Tower Bridge

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We are pleased to welcome you back to ESOL classes run by the IDEA store!

We have two classes for parents and carers. 

The first of these is an ESOL class, offering English teaching for speakers of other languages.

The second is an ICT and ESOL class - providing basic computing skills alongside English teaching.

The details are below: 

ESOL

Day: Tuesday

Times: 9.30-11.30am   

Venue: Stepney Park Primary school

Tutor: Saad Benaissa

ICT & ESOL

Day: Thursday

Times: 9.30-11.30am   

Venue: Stepney Park Primary school

Tutor: Rahnuma Noor

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Parents Coffee Mornings: Every Monday, 9:15am - 10:30

Meet other parents, find out about events and support from Tower Hamlets and the school and share ideas with the PCT.

We will also have support for accessing Parent Pay during this session.

Enter via Smith Street entrance from 9:10am

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Toddler Group: Every Tuesday, 2pm - 3:20

For families with children under 3.  Come along and play with your child using great resources and get ideas for play and songs from our team.  Meet other families and encourage your child to play with other young children.

Enter via Smithy Street entrance from 1:55pm

  

 

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Ladies Exercise Class at Stepney Park School!

Every Wednesday 9:15am-10:00am

We are very excited to be able to offer a free exercise class for mums and female carers.  

This class will be led by Ameneh.  Ameneh is our school yoga teacher.

• Meet at the Smithy Street side gate from 9:10am

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Parent Workshops

We run a range of Parental workshops to help equip our parents so that they are able to support their children. These workshops cover a large range of topics and are responsive to the needs of our community. eg

• Supporting your child online

• Developing communication through play

All workshops aim to empower parents to better support the learning and wellbeing of their children.

Current Workshops

Workshop	Year Group	Date	Time
Year 5 Parent Sharing Assembly about residential	Y5	Wednesday 29th March	9-10am
Year 1 Parents - Phonics Screener Information and supporting Phonics - (repeat of previous workshop)	Y1	Thursday 30th March	9am
Y5 Parents Mersea Residential Meeting	Y5	Wednesday 19th April	9am
Y2 Parents SATs Workshop	Y2	Thursday 20th April	9am

Further workshops about our Curriculum will be added across the year.

Past workshops this year 

Past workshops
Nursery Curriculum, Tapestry and applying to schools	Nursery Parents	Thursday 6th October
ICT workshops	Year 1 Parents	Monday 3rd October Wednesday 5th October Friday 7th October
Supporting Reading at Home	Year 1 Parents	Wednesday 28th September
Reading at Home Workshop and Tapestry	Reception	Wednesday 23rd November
Reading at Home Workshop and Tapestry	Nursery	Thursday 24th November
Year 5 Mersea Meeting	Year 5	Wednesday 30th November
Reading at Home in Year 2	Year 2	Thursday 1st December
Year 3 and 4 - Using Accelerated Reader	Year 3 and 4	Thursday 8th December
Early Years Healthy Eating Workshop  - run by the Family Support Team and Shabana	Nursery and Reception	Tuesday 6th December
Education, Health and Wellbeing Workshop	Nursery and Reception	Tuesday 13th December
Year 1 Phonics Workshop - Understanding the phonics screener and supporting phonics development at home	Year 1	Wednesday 11th January
School Nurse Drop Ins - Meet your school Nurse to discuss any health issues regarding your child/children	All parents and carers	Wednesday 25th January
Nursery Curriculum - Goals 1-4 - Getting to know our Nursery curriculum further, and how to support at home	Nursery	Wednesday 25th January
Education, Health and Wellbeing	Year 1	Tuesday 31st January
Nursery Curriculum - Goals 5-8 - Getting to know our Nursery curriculum further, and how to support at home	Nursery	Wednesday 8th February