What do you think are the best ways to do this?
When we first opened, it was easy to just tell everybody what was going on at the school that month (which wasn't much anyway, usually just a belt test). Most of our early students were whole families, and of the ones that weren't, I was on a first-name basis with every parent, and if I didn't see them at the school I'd call them and let them know.
But now that we're getting bigger, we have more going on (seminars, parent's night out, demonstrations, etc), more people to let know about them, and more uninvolved families. Also, more families where the parents don't speak English very well. So getting the word out is getting to be more of a challenge. Even with Facebook and a notice board at the school, people are missing things just because they don't know about them.
What do you think? Send home flyers with the kids? Mail things home? Send out e-mails?
When we first opened, it was easy to just tell everybody what was going on at the school that month (which wasn't much anyway, usually just a belt test). Most of our early students were whole families, and of the ones that weren't, I was on a first-name basis with every parent, and if I didn't see them at the school I'd call them and let them know.
But now that we're getting bigger, we have more going on (seminars, parent's night out, demonstrations, etc), more people to let know about them, and more uninvolved families. Also, more families where the parents don't speak English very well. So getting the word out is getting to be more of a challenge. Even with Facebook and a notice board at the school, people are missing things just because they don't know about them.
What do you think? Send home flyers with the kids? Mail things home? Send out e-mails?