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This year's theme announced...

The theme for the Family Learning Festival 2010 is Be Brilliant!

Family Learning Festival Awards

The winners of last year's Family Learning Festival awards have been announced.

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.