Past workshops 2022-2023
We offer so much at Stepney Park
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
Family Support Worker - Shabana
- Support with parenting needs and sign-post to community services.
Attendance Welfare Officer
- Our AWO meets with the Wellbeing Lead regularly to investigate incidence of attendance and to support families who struggle to get their children to school for any reason.
Counselling
- We have a school based counsellor who supports pupils with specific issues, especially in regards to supporting mental health. There is an element of parental support with this and there may be individual or family sessions provided.
School Support
We have monthly Vulnerable Children meetings to discuss children and families. Information from Vulnerable Children meetings is used by the PCT so that necessary areas for support can be identified.
This support might include:
- inviting individuals to workshops
- offering counselling services
- referrals to the school nurse
- inviting specialists in a specific social area to support the family or families via coffee mornings or through the Family Support Worker
We welcome families to approach the school to ask for support and we will deal with all families professionally, discreetly and warmly.
By popular demand, the Pastoral Care Team have organised a Walk and Talk Group for parents. 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
We will also have support for accessing Parent Pay during this session.
Meet at the Smithy Street entrance from 9:10am
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
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.
Develop your English language and ICT or Maths skills in regular sessions.
More information will be announced soon.
We run a range of 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
How to support learning and our curriculum
How to keep your child healthy and safe
All workshops aim to empower parents to better support the learning and well-being of their children.
Workshop |
Year Group |
Date |
Time |
Heathy Teeth in Tower Hamlets, Parent Session |
Nursery, Rec, Y1 | Tuesday, 3rd October 2023 | 9-10am |
Well-being Workshops for Parents | All year groups | Tues 19th Sep Tues 17th Oct Tues 7th Nov Tues 12th Dec |
9-10am |
Year 1 Maple parents : Using chromebooks with children | Y1 | Tues 26th Sep | 9am |
Year 1 Willow parents : Using chromebooks with children | Y1 | Thu 28th Sep | 9am |
Year 1 Oak parents: Using chromebooks with children | Y1 | Tues 3rd Oct | 9am |
Reception parents: Using Ipads and learning at home. | Rec | Mon 16th Oct | 9am |
Y1: Supporting Reading at Home and Phonics | Y1 | Wed 17th Oct | 9am |
Energy Saving Workshop | All year groups | Tues 5th Dec | 10-11am |
Further workshops will be added across the year.
Past workshops |
Various Meet-the-Teacher |
Year 2 Reading at Home - using chrome books |
We offer so much at Stepney Park
For parents of Year 4 and Year 5 children who have an Educational Health Care (EHC) plan.