Effects of

Grandparents’

evolvement in

children’s education

Agrupamento De Escolas De Lamaçães – PORTUGAL3rd MEETING, POLAND

Grandparents can be:

• Shock absorbers

• Bouncing boarders

• Advisers and listeners

• Mediators and friends

•Impartial judges

They can offer:

• Support

• Stability

Grandparents

teach

• Sense of family

• Values

• Beliefs

• Principles

Children are

• more demanding

• suspicious

• question further

• lack sense of

identity• lack sense of belonging

Grandparents have become

indispensable because of their:

• Experience

• Patience

• Ability to create a non

compulsive learning environment

• Ability to love

• Ability to show affection

• Willingness to help

They should

never be left

behind as far as

children’s

education is

concerned

Examples of grandparents’ involvement in children’s educations at our school

Animals at school

Reading and saying poetry

Being there

Experimenting

• Children from

kindergarden learn from

older people

Future actions

• Tales told by elderly people

• Tutorial programme

• Partnership with a psychologist

• Questionnaire to children and to

grandparents

• Analyses of the results

• Other measures to improve

intergenerational learning

Older people help us

focusing on what is

really important