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This was a response from a headteacher involved in the project:

I had a very exciting meeting last night which touched upon the project. I had an informal meeting with parent governors focusing on how well we are doing as a school and asked them for their views of the Home School learning project. The response was superb. Two mums have year 3 pupils and enthused for sometime about the impact it’s had on the whole family. Their daughters are finding it highly motivating and are using their PCs every day in a constructive way, but also the whole family are engaging with it. A mum told her how her daughter was teaching her and her father how to use the PC and helped dad create posters to display in his shop.

They see it as hugely beneficial to the community and said that their stories could be repeated by all parents 60 times over.

What was so exciting was that they were able to list the many examples of how we have met key outcomes from the project. They provided a very rich vein of evidence.

We are also undergoing an external evaluation of the project and it is showing continuing positive impacts in ways that were not envisaged in the initial stages