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Reports - Family Learning Conference 2004 "Everyone's a Winner"


This year's family learning conference was a great success.

Participant’s comments included;

What participants liked about the conference
“Venue was very good, wide range of speakers broken down into manageable chunks.”

“The band were brilliant. It just shows what can be achieved working with parents.”

“Very good day – please can I attend next year?”

“The opportunity to meet/network. The family e-learning gave me some potentially useful ideas.”

“Atmosphere, food and music.”

“The workshops were very good indeed. The band was great. I also enjoyed listening to the speakers in the morning – Peter Beardsley was superb.”


How well did the conference meet expectations?
“Excellent theme.”

“Didn’t know what to expect but found the whole day very interesting. Thank you.”

“Very well. I now fully understand about the service.”

“It has been more useful than I expected.”

“Very well – a real eye opener at what is being done in many schools.”

“I learned a lot in a good, relaxed environment. Very good venue.”


What did participants think of the workshops?
The Tricia Show
“Very impressive: the young women were fantastic.”

"This was absolutely excellent, the video reduced me to tears – very thought provoking.”

“Interesting to know what services are available. Well presented by young Mams.”

“Excellent presentation from the young parents – generated a lot of interest."

“Excellent – very well done. The 3 ‘performers’ were very good. The video was good at letting people know what happens at one centre.”


Musical Families, The Sage Gateshead
“First class, excellent.”
“The band were brilliant. It just shows what can be achieved working with parents.”
“Brilliant”


Head Teachers Perspective
“Very informative.”


Working with Men
“Interesting although not particularly relevant to my service – more in schools and pre-school.”


Share
“Brilliant as I knew nothing about it.”


Family elearning
“Very good.”


Connect-in-Teesdale, Video Arts Project
“Interesting ideas.”
“Informative and interesting”


Early Start
“Excellent ideas I will use.”


My Amazing Brain
“Interesting information re UFA.”

(Family Learning Through the Arts)


Family elearning
“Very interesting. Very good presentation.”

My Amazing Brain
“Interesting, stimulating – the way learning should be.”


What did participants think of the conference speakers?
“Good mix of people with different focuses – very interesting.”

“The personalisation of their speeches made them meaningful.”

“All very good, lots of very instinctive people and rounded off very well by Neil Charlton.”

“Entertaining.”

“Excellent – Peter Beardsley and the head teacher were fab.”

“Excellent.”

“Entertaining and informative.”

“Great!”



Overall 82% of those completing our conference evaluation gave top marks of ‘very good’.
87% found the venue to be very good and 70% felt the catering was very good.

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