Learning together

Published 04/07/2024.  Last updated 31/07/2024

Providing opportunities for families to learn together can impact not only the child but also re-ignite a parent’s love of learning.  It can support and encourage learning that takes place at home or in the community as well as impacting on attainment, attendance, behaviour, and health and wellbeing.

Providing tools and resources

  • Consider whether all families have the necessary tools and resources to learn together with their young person.

Create opportunities

  • Liaise with departments, faculties and the whole school to identify and create opportunities for families to learn with their young person or learn and teach their young person skills and knowledge.

Building and maintaining skills

  • Create and maintain enthusiasm to ensure that learning for families is continuous and provides progression opportunities.

Reduction of barriers

  • Support families in reducing potential barriers to learning.

Providing tools and resources

  • utilise funding opportunities that are available (such as Pupil Equity) within your department to reduce the costs of access to education. For example, provide families with cooking utensils for Health and Food technology; access to literature for English; calculators and other tools for Maths.

Create opportunities

  • have an awareness of potential opportunities that departments could provide families. For example, Breakfast clubs with family volunteers and members and/or supporting practical experiments in science to prepare for exams.

Building and maintaining skills

  • structure opportunities to allow the development of skills. For example, recipes progressing in complexity in breakfast club along with cooking skills badges and certificates; and literature responses becoming more insightful and analytical.

Reducing barriers

  • providing a variety of supports to those who require it. For example, overlays and digital supports.

'Coming to the Parent Group made such a difference for me.  I left school with no qualifications and hope to get some by coming here.' (Parent/Carer).

'Two parents/carers in our Brew and Blether group have now achieved their Level 2 Food and Hygiene Certificate.' (Family Learning Co-ordinator).

'We really enjoyed working with families supporting their understanding of what we do in Maths. It was great to see them working alongside their children on numeracy problems.' (Teaching staff)

'Giving families the opportunity to cook together has been really rewarding. They've really enjoyed coming into school for a really positive reason and it seems to have helped break down some barriers.' (Teaching staff)
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Learning together

Published 04/07/2024.  Last updated 31/07/2024

Providing opportunities for families to learn together can impact not only the child but also re-ignite a parent’s love of learning.  It can support and encourage learning that takes place at home or in the community as well as impacting on attainment, attendance, behaviour, and health and wellbeing.

Providing tools and resources

  • Consider whether all families have the necessary tools and resources to learn together with their young person.

Create opportunities

  • Liaise with departments, faculties and the whole school to identify and create opportunities for families to learn with their young person or learn and teach their young person skills and knowledge.

Building and maintaining skills

  • Create and maintain enthusiasm to ensure that learning for families is continuous and provides progression opportunities.

Reduction of barriers

  • Support families in reducing potential barriers to learning.

Providing tools and resources

  • utilise funding opportunities that are available (such as Pupil Equity) within your department to reduce the costs of access to education. For example, provide families with cooking utensils for Health and Food technology; access to literature for English; calculators and other tools for Maths.

Create opportunities

  • have an awareness of potential opportunities that departments could provide families. For example, Breakfast clubs with family volunteers and members and/or supporting practical experiments in science to prepare for exams.

Building and maintaining skills

  • structure opportunities to allow the development of skills. For example, recipes progressing in complexity in breakfast club along with cooking skills badges and certificates; and literature responses becoming more insightful and analytical.

Reducing barriers

  • providing a variety of supports to those who require it. For example, overlays and digital supports.

'Coming to the Parent Group made such a difference for me.  I left school with no qualifications and hope to get some by coming here.' (Parent/Carer).

'Two parents/carers in our Brew and Blether group have now achieved their Level 2 Food and Hygiene Certificate.' (Family Learning Co-ordinator).

'We really enjoyed working with families supporting their understanding of what we do in Maths. It was great to see them working alongside their children on numeracy problems.' (Teaching staff)

'Giving families the opportunity to cook together has been really rewarding. They've really enjoyed coming into school for a really positive reason and it seems to have helped break down some barriers.' (Teaching staff)
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