Parent Partnership

Why focus on parent engagement?

We have asked parents and heard that being informed about your child/ren progress is important to you, you also want to know where to support and how to support if there is a need.

Research shows us that strong relationships with children and their families are a pre-requisite for learning success. We can now correlate that at Stonefields School parents who engage children progress and achieve well. For this reason, proactively building positive relationships and having open and honest communication is something we don't leave to chance.


We engage you, our parents in a variety of ways. These include:

  • Family Connects - Prior to school starting at the beginning of the year

  • New to Stonefields School families 5-7 week connect following enrolment

  • Termly Māori whānau hui and activities - 2022 activities

  • Informal connects e.g. phone call - Term 1, 3 and 4

  • Learner Led Conferences - Term 2

  • Mid and end of year progress and achievement snapshots


Further details about each engagement initiative can be found below

Communicating Progress & Achievement to Parents/Caregivers

SchoolTalk is an innovative web app, that makes learning and progress visible for teachers, children and their parents. There are four key purposes that have been intentionally designed into SchoolTalks functionality. These are:


  • Building learner agency - Learners know how they are going and what their next steps are

  • Automating realtime progress and achievement reporting

  • Building parent partnerships

  • Developing teacher effectiveness and efficiency


Research shows that learners who know how they are going, where they are and where to next, develop agency and are equipped to progress their own learning. SchoolTalk is populated with learning progressions in critical to Know areas like Reading, Writing, Maths and 'Critical to Learn' e.g. capabilities such as collaborating and wellbeing.


You can be as involved with your child's learning as you choose. Logging into SchoolTalk with your child is a great way to stay connected with what they are learning and how they are going. Your child's progressions can be viewed anytime by logging into SchoolTalk and will give you up to date information on what they have achieved (highlighted in green) and what their next learning steps are (highlighted in yellow)

Mid Year Snapshot

The mid year Achievement snapshot is sent to you via email half way through the year. This will outline where your child is achieving in Writing, Reading and Mathematics.

End of Year Report

The End of Year Achievement report shows you how your child is progressing from year to year in the Reading, Writing, Mathematics. It also shows you how your child is developing in their acquisition of the Stonefields School learner qualities and each of the vision principles.