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Plan of Action for your event: Step 6 Signposting/Further learning
Your FLF event is an ideal opportunity to promote future learning opportunities. Our downloadable guide Discovering new worlds: linking family activities to further learning has lots of information on how to do this effectively. Here are some other tips that may help. Here are some tips on how to do this:
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Other information about future events in the community linked to your activity e.g. if you ran an event on arts and crafts have information about a local gallery or painting class available.
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Invite local training providers to provide information about courses they offer. Ask them to be on hand to talk to people about what they could do.
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Have a display area with information about courses and learning opportunities.
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Ask a Skills for Life tutor or support person to come along who might be able to identify adults who need support.
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Organise a taster session linked to the activities you have put on. For instance, if your FLF theme was ‘Language’, set up tasters in French or Sign Language. Take contact details straight away so that you have a ready made class.
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Talk to families and find out what else they would like to do. They may have specific interests, such as gardening or sport. Arrange to hold another family learning session in the near future.
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Invite your local nextstep service to come along.
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Include the Get On helpline 0800 66 0800 and website www.direct.gov.uk/geton on your publicity for anyone who is too shy to talk about Skills for Life issues.
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The Learning Revolution is here!
Find out how the Campaign for Learning is supporting this October's celebration of everything that's great about learning for its own sake and for personal, family and community development - and how you can get involved. Find out more
Campaign for Learning welcomes Ofsted report on family learning
Family learning, where children and parents engage together in learning sessions, leads to improved communication, confidence and interpersonal skills in children according to a recent Ofsted report. Children also settled in better in class and had improved relationships with teachers and other children following the sessions. The report found that family learning can also lead to qualifications and employment for parents and give them the confidence and skills to help their child. The Chief Inspector recommends that family learning should be promoted as a core school activity. Read the full report.
Time to brush up on essential skills?
The Family Learning Festival is an ideal opportunity to encourage families to brush up on their skills.The Campaign for Learning is working once again with Get On to help promote and support Skills for Life (maths and English) to families during the Festival. You can also find out more about supporting Skills for Life in our dedicated Skills for Life section, which includes all the latest updates on Skills for Life. Our themes section also has ready-to-run activities that embed Skills for Life and can be used for your Family Learning Festival events.
Updated planning guide
See our updated planning guide, which covers information and advice on planning your Family Learning Festival events
We need you!
As we're all aware, the economic conditions mean that everyone's budgets are stretched. So, we need your help to share ideas with new and existing organisers on how to get the most out of Family Learning Festival events. We'd like you to upload video clips about how to organise an event, your top tips or ideas for activities. If you have footage of event itself that's even better - please get permission from attendees before filming and uploading anything to a public arena.
Once you have your video upload it to www.youtube.com and tag it with "Family Learning Festival" and drop us a line to let us know at flf@cflearning.org.uk See what we already have on our channel youtube.com/familylearningtelly Need some help on making a video.
