Family Learning Practitioners

Financial Literacy Resources

Newcastle City Council Family Learning Service have produced this very useful resource for NIACE to support financial literacy within a family learning context.  It is free to download and includes six session plans with activities for adults and children. Activities are referenced to Skills for Life curricula, mainly at Entry 3 and Level 1.  One of the excellent activities (which could also be used as part of a family health course) requires the books Oliver's Vegetables, Oliver's Fruit Salad and Oliver's Milkshake by Vivian French (illustrated by Alison Bartlett), which can be ordered at the bottom of this page.

Skills for Life embedded materials for Family Learning

This link will take you to a free online version of the Skills for Life embedded learning resources.  To find a specific pack, click the dropdown menu for "Setting" and choose Family Health, Family Life: The Growing Child or Family Life: Focus on Parenting.  You can leave the Keyword box blank, then click search.  Each module is available as a separate PDF download.

UK practitioners can also request a free hard copy of the resources here.

Surrey County Council

Surrey County Council have a range of family learning resource packs with great ideas for sessions and activities for Key Stage 1, 2 and 3.

Campaign for Learning - Family Learning Week Resources

An A to Z list of resources for parent/child activities, which would be great for Family Learning Week or could be incorporated into other family learning sessions.

Centre for Sustainable Energy

A sample of the resources can be downloaded free.  You can choose to register (also free) to receive the full pack.  Useful activity ideas and resources for helping families to learn about sustainable energy, including reading metres to check their electricity consumption, making a draught excluder and much more.

History Detective

A set of family learning "missions" to help families become history detectives, from the Isle of Wight Council.  An interesting idea which you could adapt to use in your own area.

Wirral Numeracy Games

Lots of super ideas for numeracy games which children and parents can make and play together.

Involving Asian Families in Family Learning Video

An interesting video on Teachers' TV which shows how Derby, Croydon and Rochdale use family learning to engage Asian families and get them involved in their children's learning.  The video can be watched on screen or downloaded (you need to log in to do this) for use in staff training.

Involving Asian Families in Family Learning Toolkit

This toolkit accompanies the above video and is available to buy from the Basic Skills Agency.  Designed to help schools engage with Bangladeshi and Pakistani families in order to enhance children's literacy, numeracy and language skills.  Includes case studies and staff development activities.

Handbook for Family Learning Practitioners

A 32-page handbook for practitioners of Family Learning Literacy, Language and Numeracy programmes, produced following research from the NRDC.  Also available from this page is the full report of the research.