Family Learning Team
 Family
Learning Team
South Area Centre
Tolpits Lane
Watford
Herts
WD18 6LP
Tel: 01923 248 584
Fax 01923 225130
Main Principles Underlying Family Learning Programmes:
- inter-generational work providing opportunities for parents and children
to learn together
- school-based
Aims of the Project
- to improve parents' and children's literacy
- to develop a climate in which the home literacy and culture are shared
and valued
- to support the parents in developing their own strategies to help
their children with the early stages of learning to read and write
- to provide parents with information about school expectations, the
curriculum and the education system
Focus Communities
Hertfordshire's Education Development Plan includes specific targets
for raising the achievement of pupils from Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds.
These communities are the main focus for family learning work.
The Approach
Family learning activities may include any of the following:
- poetry/story-telling and making dual-language texts
- ICT for parents and children (laptops as a tool to enhance learning
in community languages and English). This is linked to the DfEE's Community
Lifelong Learning programme.
- Family Reading Groups (FRGs) after school
- Family learning has also linked into community language classes, complementary
schools and initiatives set up by schools during or after school hours
- Mentoring
- Study skills
Creche facilities are available.
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