Course Aims
- to improve parents’/carers’ ability to support children’s learning and development
- to improve children’s communications, language, reading and writing skills
- to improve parents’/carers’ own skills and knowledge
Course content will include: (depending on appropriate Key Skills)
- how to communicate with the school (writing notes/ letters, filling in forms, making phone calls and talking to teachers)
- link play with communication development
- the importance of picture books in child’s early language development
- how English is taught at schools
- reading with children
- family life and routines
- festivals and traditions in the UK
Key information
Age – 0 – 11
Length – Minimum of 8 hours
Delivery Model – Partly joint or adult only
What to do next
For more information about Family Learning courses running across Essex, please call Zoe Mallett (North) 03330 321372 or Melissa Williamson (South) on 03330 321597