News & Events

Family Learning Festival October 2009

During October various Family Learning activities were held across County Durham to mark the Family Learning Festival 2009.

The activities started at Clayport Library on Wednesday 21st October with Family Storytime and Family Crafts sessions.

The Hermitage School was the venue for a Family Learning day on Monday 26th October with a Fire Brigade Demonstration, Police Display and Badge Making and a Basic First Aid session run by Heart Start. There were also Family Crafts, Family Fun through Football and a Cook & Eat session.

On Tuesday 27th October the activities continued at Durham Community Business College again with the Police and Fire Brigade in attendance all day and a Heart Start Basic First Aid session in the morning. The afternoon included a Cook & Eat session, Who Do You Think You Are? in the online centre, and Family Crafts in the main Hall.

St. Patrick’s Primary in Consett held a ‘What’s the Story?’ day on Friday 30th October. Learners made their own story book with illustrations with the help and advice of professional artist, Sarah Allen.

All activities during the Family Learning Festival were provided free of charge.

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 (Autumn 2009)

Family Learning Newsletter (Autumn 2009).pdf (2 pages, 153kb)

This issue contains information including:

• Outdoors and Nature courses with Family Learning
• Family Learning through Football with Sunderland AFC
• Transition courses from Nursery to Reception
• Enterprise project in Sedgefield at Ferryhill Market
• Family Learning DVD productions
  

Family Learning Newsletter (Summer 2008)

Family Learning Summer 2008 V.2.pdf (2 pages, 180kb)

This issue contains information including:

• Healthy Living including cooking and gardening.
• Working with Fathers and their children in recreational groups
• Culture and Diversity events
• FLLN success stories
• Parent/Carer groups run in partnership with SureStart County Durham
  

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

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"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:

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.

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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.

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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.

FLCD_ Newsletter.pdf (4 pages, 1987kb)

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

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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

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