Parental Engagement – After school chats

Evening chats – students can chat from home with their family

We’re running extra, after-school chats as an opportunity to involve parents and carers in what you are doing in school. They are always really popular, with students keen to introduce their families and friends to the engineers they have been connecting with in class.

When?

The first chats are running

• Thursday, 16th January, 7pm-8pm
• Thursday 30th January, 7pm-8pm

With more to be announced!

How to get students involved

• Set the chats as homework.
  This is the best way to get your students online. Suggest they log in with a family member, look at the experts’ profiles together and ask a question in the chat. They just log in as normal and click the CHAT button at the top of the page.
• Add information to your school newsletter. Suggested wording:
  Some of our students will be chatting online with engineers working on the ExoMars missions, in their lessons on the I’m an Engineer website. This is in partnership with the UK Space Agency in preparation for the Rosalind Franklin rover, that will be exploring the surface of Mars in late 2020 to try and find out if life ever existed there.
  We are encouraging students to show their parents and carers the site and introduce them to the engineers in evening live chats, from 7pm-8pm on Thursdays throughout the rest of the year. The first dates are 16th and 30th January, with more to be annoinced. Parents and carers can meet the engineers and ask them about what it’s like working on the missions.
  If your child is taking part, they will have their own username and password to access the site. Log in with your child from 7pm and click the CHAT button.