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Themes
This year’s theme is “Get Together - Discover More!’ to encourage everyone from organisers to families to spend time learning together. Organisers are encouraged to hold activities under the following activity areas:
Thinking skills can help improve learning, effectiveness in the workplace and life quality. It is all about learning to discover how to discover. These skills include:
1. Enquiry skills
2. Information processing skills
3. Reasoning skills
Evaluation skills
4. Problem-solving skills
5. Creative thinking
Activities can range from making time to find out about local parks or an event where you talk about how families can make a difference on a global scale in terms of their carbon footprint, using up food or recycling.
Family Learning Festival events are an ideal vehicle for embedding Skills for Life activities, as they are non-threatening, relaxed and fun! Research indicates that helping children with homework is a great motivator to get parents back into learning. So if you are trying to get adults to sign up for your course, open it up by holding a Family Learning taster session to get reluctant parents through the doors.
This is a theme that gives organisers the freedom to focus on the areas that are most important to them. This can include anything from family trees to ethnic roots to a family sharing their interest in gardening. Or you could focus in on individuals to explore issues such as mental health, self esteem or confidence.
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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.
