What are the tasks of a parent contact?

• Plan parent meetings together with the contact teacher.
• Review annual plans and educational material together with the teachers for the next half-year and identify parents’ needs for information.
• Maintain good contact with the pupils and assess what the parents can do to develop a good environment within the group. Draw the pupils as much as possible into the contact between home and school.
• Safeguard the interests of pupils and parents when issues arise that concern the entire group, e.g. questions concerning the transfer of a child to another school, transport arrangements, traffic conditions, etc.  
• Maintain good contact with all parents in the group and mediate their ideas and views to the right bodies.
• Present matters on which the working committee would like to hear the parents’ views – either in writing or verbally – at parents’ meetings.
• Arrange for new parent contacts to be elected and ensure that they are informed about their tasks.