'Keeping Up With The Children' aims to extend parents' skills in supporting their children's literacy and numeracy at home and heighten their awareness of the literacy and numeracy/ english and maths strategies within schools at Key Stages 1, 2 & 3. Schools may prefer to run this course as 'Help Your
Child Succeed' with an emphasis on brain-based learning.
It is tutored by teachers and runs for 12 hours. Teachers are funded for the delivery of the course and for resources. Teachers may also run a taster for 2-4 hours.
Family Literacy & Numeracy Workshops are for targeted children and their parents/carers to work together on practical literacy or numeracy activities that may support children's- learning at home and raise awareness of the literacy or numeracy strategies. Schools may wish to run workshops through ICT.
The workshops run for 3 hours and may be tutored internally by teachers who are funded for their delivery or externally by an experienced family learning tutor/adviser.
Family Learning News
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