The EEF’s Early Years Toolkit indicates that engaging parents and carers in their young child’s learning can boost early development by up to five months.
The perennial challenge for educators has been working out how to effectively put this evidence into practice, finding the answer to the age-old question: what does purposeful parental engagement look like in practice?
The Peep Learning Together Programme, developed by Peeple, is a structured approach to increasing parental engagement in the early years that focuses on providing increased support for parents and carers of young children. The programme aims to improve parenting skills and the quality of the home learning environment by providing families with practical advice and activities on how to support their child’s early development.
The headline finding from the EEF’s efficacy trial of the Peep LTS programme, published in February 2020, was that pupils in the intervention group made, on average, no additional progress in core language skills, compared to children in the control group. These results have a moderate-to-high security rating.
