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Family Learning Programmes in Churches and Schools    
 
Family programmes aim to encourage family members to learn together. They are about learning as or within a family. They include opportunities for intergenerational learning and, wherever possible, lead both adults and children to pursue further learning. ‘Family’ is purposely not defined, to enable adults and children with a range of relationships to participate together. 
We have a team of dedicated Skills for Life tutors and Early Years Practitioners, some of whom have been trained to deliver positive parenting programmes, who are able to design and deliver a course according to your requirements.
 
 See Family Learning in action at our Handsworth Family Learning Pilot
 
    
Keeping up with the Children - 12 hour programme for parents/carers usually based in a school
 
Learning Language Together   - 12 hour programme for parents/carers with pre-school children
 
Wider Family Learning Programmes -  12 to 60 hour programmes for children and parents/carers together
Family literacy, language and numeracy programmes
‘For some families, issues with numeracy, literacy or other basic skills can act as barriers to parents supporting their children’s learning . . . Family learning programmes have been shown to deliver lasting improvements in literacy, numeracy and language skills in both children and their parents. They also boost parents’ involvement in their children’s learning, encourage parents to go on to further training and can re-connect them with schools they might previously have been wary of.’
 
(Every Child Matters, 2007, DfES)
 
 
  Birmingham Churches Together (Training)
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St George's Community Hub, Great Hampton Row, Newtown, Birmingham B19 3JG
Tel: 0121 236 0026;   Email: training@birminghamchurches.org.uk;