Discover Your Potential
Skills for Life (SfL) are essential skills that can help families during their school, work and leisure time. They include functional English, Maths and ICT. The Government aims to increase the number of people developing these skills to 2.25 million by 2010, with the ultimate ambition of 95% of adults achieving functional literacy and numeracy skills by 2020. learning and improve their own skills.
Family Learning Week events are an ideal vehicle for embedding Skills for Life activities, as they are non-threatening, relaxed and fun! Family Learning activities that involve SfL can give parents/ carers confidence to help their children with homework and can help motivate them to continue learning and improve their own skills.
Key points to remember when organising an event that involves Skills for Life activities are:
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Don’t make it obvious that the activity involves English, Maths or ICT – this may put some people off
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Don’t promote the activity as basic skills – some people may not feel they need additional help
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Do signpost further help such as the Get On number k="javascript:doHandleChdial(this,1,'0',1);return skype_tb_stopEvents();" onmouseout="javascript:doSkypeFlag(this,'0',0,1,16);">
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Do make it fun – one Family Learning Week winner produced a newspaper to develop literacy and ICT skills.
Organising your event
Skills for Life Planning Guide
Get On campaign toolkit
Activity ideas
Around the World – activity sheet
Shopping Around – activity sheet
For more ideas go to the A-Z resource section
Useful links
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/toolkit
http://catalogue.learndirect.co.uk/browse/sfl/