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Family Learning Month October 2008

A festival of Family Learning Fun Activities across County Durham. Please check below for contact details for individual events.

Healthy Eating, Young Explorers, Story Telling/Creative Writing and Digital Photography tasters are available at different venues in South East Durham. Please contact Karen Wiper or Fabienne Bailey on 0191 5862404

Fire Safety Sessions
Moorside Children’s Centre on Wednesday 1st October 9.30am – 11.30am
Leadgate Children’s Centre on Monday 6th October 9.30am – 11.30am
Burnhope Children’s Centre on Wednesday 8th October 9.30am – 11.30am
Catchgate Children’s Centre on Monday 13th October 9.30am – 11.30am
Stanley Children’s Centre on Wednesday 15th October 9.30am – 11.30am
Bloemfontein Primary School on Monday 20th October 9.30am - 11.30am
Contact Denise Hepplewhite on 01207 291506

Fire Engine Session
Moorside Primary School on Thursday 2nd October 9.30am – 11.30am
Leadgate Infant School on Tuesday 7th October 9.30am – 11.30am
Burnhope Primary School on Thursday 9th October 9.30am – 11.30am
Catchgate Children’s Centre on Tuesday 14th October 9.30am – 11.30am
Return to Learn on Thursday 16th October 9.30am – 11.30am
Bloemfontein Primary School on 20th October 9.30am – 11.30am
Contact Denise Hepplewhite on 01207 291506

Paediatric First Aid
Catchgate Children’s Centre on Tuesday 7th and Friday 10th October 1pm – 5pm
Stanley Children’s Centre on Monday 13th, Tuesday 14th, and Friday 17th October 12pm – 4pm
Contact Denise Hepplewhite on 01207 291506

Pre-ride Cycle Workshop at Stanley Community Centre on Monday 27th October 11am – 2pm
Family Cycle Ride from Stanhope to Stanley on Tuesday 28th October 10am – 3pm
Celebration Event at Stanley Community Centre on Friday 31st October 10am – 2pm
For more information please contact Tom Clark on 01207 232059, or Denise Hepplewhite on 01207 291506

www.getonlineday Internet Safety drop in session at Return to Learn Centre on Friday 24th October 10am – 12noon
Contact Denise Hepplewhite on 01207 291506

Get Online Internet and basic computing sessions at Sunnydale Community College on Friday 3rd, Friday 10th and Friday 17th October and Get Online Day on Friday 24th, Saturday 25th and Friday 31st October. For information contact Susie Bird or Joanne Harwood 01388 772526

Stained Glass at Middlestone Moor Primary on Monday 6th and Monday 13th October.
Making Divali Lamps at Cockton Hill Infants on Tuesday 7th and Tuesday 14th October.
Backyard Buddies (making a birdfeeder) at Butterknowle Primary on Monday 20th October
Contact LEAP office for further information on 01833 690281

Family Fun under Canvass at Clayport Library on Monday 27th October 10am – 3pm. For further information please contact Chris Smithson on 0191 3740536

Family Learning News

The Family Learning News is available for you to read in PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this information.

Family Learning Newsletter (September 2006)

Family Learning News 2006.pdf (4 pages, 404kb)

This issue contains information including:

The Impact of Parental Involvement on Pupil Achievement
Introduction to two useful publications - "Best Practice in Family Learning", a guide to a wide range of successful Family Learning programmes, and "On the Way to Appleby", a reading resource produced by a travellers' group.
Involving Dads in football
21st Century Family Schools

Family Learning Newsletter (December 2004)

Family_Learning_News_December_2004.pdf (2 pages, 329kb)

This issue contains information including:

Raising Achievement Through Family Learning
The Parsley family
The Road to Reading Project
Share
Parents and Children Together (PACT)
Success at Cotsford Infants

"Like Lighting A Fire"

An Evaluation of SRB6 Family Learning in County Durham. This report summarises the findings of an evaluation of the SRB6 Family Learning in County Durham (FLCD) Project. This report was written by Jeanne Haggart from NIACE (National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education). The evaluation was commissioned by the FLCD Steering Group and carried out by the NIACE. The report is available in PDF format:

PDF Icon SRB6 eval final SEPT 06.pdf (23 pages, 293kb)

You will need Adobe Reader to view PDF documents. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website.

Annual Family Learning Conference 2005

The annual Family Learning Conference for 2005 with the theme 'Everyone's a Winner' took place on the 6 July 2005 at Ushaw College. Read the conference 2005 report in our reports section.

The Family Learning Partnership Newsletter

Volume 1 of the Family Learning Newsletter - Family Learning Partnership Times is available to read in its original format as a PDF document. The newsletter contains events from Family Learning Week, Connect in Teesdale, Family Learning News and lots more. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this information.

PDF Icon FLCD_ Newsletter.pdf (4 pages, 1987kb)

It is also available to read on the website (partly summarised). Read the Family Learning Newsletter

Three Minute Film

We have a three minute film on family learning available for you to download and watch on your computer. We recommend Windows users right click and 'save target as' and users with a mac operating system ctrl + click 'download link to disk', rather than attempt to play in browser.

movie.mpg

View our Archive News for older news stories.

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