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Parental engagement: How to motivate families at the start of the school year
The start of a new school year is the best time to re-think how you engage parents and put in place some new strategies. Here are three of our favourite parental engagement tips that you could implement straight away.

School readiness activities: getting your child ready for school
This September, thousands of children will be walking through their new school gates for the very first time. Somewhere along the way, getting them ready might’ve felt like a long checklist for their parents – making sure they can use the toilet independently, count to ten, sit still, use scissors, zip up their own coat.

Vacancy: Freelance Videographer
Join the Learning with Parents team to provide freelance support to the core of our ambitious charity, to enable all families to have positive learning interactions at home.

12 summer activities for kids – simple, fun & little to no equipment needed
The summer holidays are a great chance for children to relax and unwind, but six weeks of downtime can quickly turn into six weeks of screentime and squabbles. Here are some summer activities for kids to keep them occupied during those seemingly endless summer days.

Parental Engagement: Creating informal opportunities to connect with families
Building strong relationships with families doesn’t have to start in the classroom – and honestly, some of the best connections happen over a biscuit, on the playground, or at a quiz night!

Books and biscuits: Boosting parental engagement at Stepney Primary
Lucy is the reading lead and year 5 teacher of a primary school in Hull, East Yorkshire. Last year their family engagement had dipped quite a bit and they were feeling disappointed with it. They were determined to improve this year…

Introducing our Parental Engagement Forum
Our Parental Engagement Forum is coming back with a refresh this September! Every month, we will be inviting leaders from across the sector to share their expertise on a specific topic – all at no cost to school leaders and teachers.

Transforming reading routines at Holton St Peter Primary School
Holton St Peter is a primary school in Suffolk, who are in their third year of using Learning with Parents. We sat down for a chat with Acting Headteacher, Charlotte Hammond, who particularly wanted to share the success they’ve had using our Digital Reading Log.

Working in partnership to encourage reading for pleasure
This National Year of Reading, with the national focus on encouraging reading for pleasure, Learning with Parents has embarked on a collaboration with University College London’s (UCL) Institute of Education to help us evolve and improve our Digital Reading Log.

Parental Engagement Toolkit with the Education Endowment Foundation
In our latest webinar, we were joined by Dr Cat Jones from the Education Endowment Foundation, who shared the key messages from the Parental Engagement strand of the EEF’s Teaching & Learning Toolkit.

Every child achieving and thriving: Responding to the white paper
The white paper is ambitious but honest: halving the attainment gap is the right goal, but schools cannot get there alone.

The Reading Diet: Promoting varied and enjoyable reading for children
Reading is one of the most valuable habits we can instil in children. Beyond its clear role in improving literacy, it offers a wealth of wider benefits and opens up a world of opportunity.

Digital Reading Log for Schools: How to Boost Reading for Pleasure at Home
When a school partners with us to use the Digital Reading Log, it is usually to replace the expensive paper reading logs they have used for years with something that can’t get lost and allows them to track home reading more easily.

What does it really mean to be ready for school? Reflections from our school readiness webinar
Starting school is one of the biggest moments in a child’s early life. But are we asking the right question when we talk about school readiness…

Secret Readers at Wrawby Primary School
Engaging families and children in shared reading sessions at Wrawby Primary School…

Manipulatives Matter: Supporting maths learning at school and at home
Learning with Parents were excited to host another webinar with Grace Coker from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)…

Ready Teddy: The School Readiness programme transforming children’s transition to Reception
Starting school is a huge milestone — for children and their families. It is an exciting step, but it can also feel daunting. In the UK, many children begin Reception without the confidence, routines and foundational skills that help them settle in and thrive from their very first day.

Understanding Dyscalculia: Everything Parents and Teachers Need to Know
What is dyscalculia? Dyscalculia is a developmental difficulty in working with numbers. It is more than finding maths difficult or low attainment at school, it

Why storytelling is important and how to encourage it
As it’s National Storytelling Week, we thought we’d take the opportunity to think about why storytelling is so important, and how we can help encourage storytelling among children and families.

Our impact in 2025: A milestone year for Learning with Parents
Today we are delighted to share the launch of our 2024-25 Impact Report, celebrating a milestone year of innovation and growth.

Money Skills: Our inclusive financial literacy programme for primary schools
Money Skills is our whole-school financial education programme, designed to equip primary school children with the confidence, knowledge and experiences they need to make smart money choices as they grow.

Money Skills for children: Insights from our financial literacy pilot
Do young children really need to learn about money when they may be a decade away from earning their own? Research suggests that they do…