In this bulletin the Campaign for Learning’s Family Learning Festival team bring you news about ways to promote your event. It’s not to late to get involved - our new resources from WWF will make planning an activity easier than remembering to switch the lights off! We've also got updates about Skills for Life, the Big Picture Party and the National Year of Reading. Don't forget - keep clicking for more updates on the Family Learning Festival website www.familylearningweek.com |
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Create a buzz...
The Family Learning Festival is coming soon. Get people excited by ordering branded promotional material or download free posters and distribute them to local businesses, schools or libraries so they can help you make some noise about what you are doing.
The Family Learning Festival team will be running a regional radio campaign in the run up to the event. This will run in areas where there is most activity happening – so make sure your event is registered by the 9 September so that we don’t miss your region off the list.
We already have 287 events registered on our Google Family Learning Festival map. Register your event to make this year the best Family Learning Festival ever! |
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Want to hold a Family Learning Festival event?
Well it’s not to late to get started. With four great themes of environment, wellbeing, creativity, new media and technology there are loads of activities that you could run. This year WWF have produced a fantastic resource to help you organise an instant environmentally themed event. They are also sponsoring an award for the best event on this theme – more about that and other awards will be posted in the next e-newsletter.
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Looking to help parents brush up on their skills?
The Family Learning Festival is the ideal opportunity to help parents brush up on their skills in a fun an informal way. You can do this by embedding a Skills for Life activity within your event - if you are running a cookery activity bring in numeracy skills with shopping or use simple language games to improve literacy skills. We have a number of worksheets that you can use in our A-Z resources section or you could make up your own activity - websites like www.move-on.org.uk and www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise can hep you with ideas for activities.
The Department for Universities, Innovation and Skills are sponsoring awards again, so keep your eyes peeled for how you could win £100 for your organisation and some great PR support.
Free Skills Promotional Materials
If you are raising the profile of Skills for Life at your event, Get On can help. The Get On campaign has free materials available including scratchcards, postcards and fortune tellers, which help to deliver key Get On information to potential learners. To find out more about the materials and to order call 020 7544 3130 and quote FLF08 or email get-on@fishburn-hedges.co.uk with FLF08 in the subject header. |
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Win an illustrator!
As part of the Big Picture Party - a month-long extravaganza to celebrate picture books and encourage family learning through drawing - the Campaign for Learning, Booktrust and the Campaign for Drawing are offering three libraries the chance to win an illustrator to participate in their events. It’s not to late to enter all you need to do is register your Big Picture Party event on the Family Learning Festival website by the end of this week.
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Get in touch
The Family Learning Festival Team is happy to answer any questions you may have about organising a Family Learning Festival event. To get in touch call Jamie on 020 7766 0014 or email: jhwright@cflearning.org.uk
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Date: 2 October, 2008
Venue: London
Come and find out more and debate one of the Festival’s main themes – wellbeing - at the next National Learning Forum. With an interesting range of speakers including wellbeing psychologists, statisticians, authors and practitioners we will debate the impact of wellbeing in the workplace, the family and general life, whilst also learning some of the tools to manage our own happiness.
For more information and to book visit www.campaignforlearning.org.uk and follow links for events.
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The Numbers Game – new maths resource for your families
As you know many parents find maths quite scary and certainly won’t consider the subject to be fun. That feeling is often passed on to their children. The Campaign for Learning and Southgate Publishers has published The Numbers Game. It’s colourful, lively, humourous and full of maths that is enjoyable and won’t frighten anyone! The book has been designed and priced to be purchased by schools, Children’s Centres, libraries and others and given out to parents perhaps at a special event (like a Maths evening), or a workshop. The book can cost as little as 97p each when bought in multiple copies. Find out more and download an order form or visit: www.southgatepublishers.co.uk
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Free Reads by Top Authors
To celebrate the launch of WOW! 366, a collection of 366 mini tales from massive authors, NYR are offering a selection of these fantastic stories free on their website. You can use these with families as a basis for a creative activty for Family Learning Festival. Under 18s could use the stories to help explore writing their own story and enter the WOW 366 competition
Regional Tours for Telling Tales
NYR's search for the nation's most enthusiastic amateur storyteller takes the Telling Tales tours to London, Newcastle and Norwich in September Or you could hold a family activity involving storytelling and encourage parents and carers over the age 18 to upload their entries and be in with a chance to be on one of the nation’s most enthusiastic storytellers
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