FAMILY-SCHOOL
- FAMILY-SCHOOL RELATIONSHIP
Kimba preschools provide parents who are concerned for their children’s education with a wide range of activities and information in order to answer their questions and to collaborate with them on educating their children.
- TALKS AND CONFERENCES
Prestigious experts in the field of education lead a series of talks and conferences open to the public and mainly targeted at parents and education specialists. These events are organised once a term, based on a theme related to parental needs today. The purpose is none other than to help childhood education more, if possible.
- FAMILY WORKSHOPS
Once a week, parents can attend the School to prepare materials for their children. At the same time they can see the environment in which the children develop for themselves and they can relate to other families, discussing any important educational matter in depth with them.
- PARENTING SCHOOL
Twice a month, one-hour sessions are organised which are led by a family counsellor and at which issues are raised to help parents and further their training. The matters discussed include acquiring habits, general features of child development and the importance of getting to know the school in order to participate there.
The Kimba preschools act as a compliment to children’s education, maintaining a close relationship with the families through the Parenting School.
To contribute to the children’s educational development, Kimba, alongside the Instituto Europeo de Estudios de la Educación (IEEE) – European Institute for Educational Studies, runs the Family Education Programme, in small groups within the Parenting School: a personalised ongoing training plan aimed at parents to produce a personal improvement in the children through developing their willingness.
OBJECTIVES:
• To discover the family needs and potential.
• To make parents more involved in their children’s education.
• To identify specific methods for passing on values.
• To encourage and deepen family communication.
• To know your children better and improve the family relationship.
• To help parents develop different educational procedures and use them on their children.
• To enrich yourself with the achievements of other families.
HOW DOES THE FAMILY GUIDANCE PROGRAMME WORK?
• Voluntary education: make every effort so that your children are independent and responsible people, capable of thinking of a life plan and making it materialise.
• Positive education: discover and develop positive attitudes for a more effective education.
• Motivation education: give real motives so that children act independently and responsibly.
• Preventative education: plan ahead to offer older children the options to make the right choices.
METHODOLOGY
• Read one book per term on an educational topic (including 3 individual study guides and 3 group study guides).
• Put in place Plans of Action with children so that they develop a specific habit or attribute.
• A two-hour monthly meeting with the counsellor and other parents where doubts arising from the reading material are resolved and the work that has been done is summarized.
• Permanent communication with the counsellor (directly or via e-mail) to help develop the Plan of Action and resolve doubts that have arisen).
• A one-hour meeting per term with the IEEE counsellor.
