Share and Family Learning

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Share and Family Learning
Gaye Warwick Project Manager, Family Learning
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Promoting Parental Involvement

• Its what parents do rather than who they are
  that counts.
• Professor Charles Desforges
• University of Exeter
• The Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental
  Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievement
  and Adjustment 2003

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Impact on ChildrenProf Charles Desforges
University of Exeter

• Effects (Parents/School)
• 29 / 05
• 27 / 21
• 14 / 51

• Achievement
• Age 7
• Age 11
• Age 16

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Parents responsibilities

• 98 parents sign Home-School Agreement
• 54 dont remember

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Impact of parental involvement

• Self-esteem
• The most important influence on a persons level
  of self-esteem are their parents once parents
  have had their say, little else in life will be
  able to modify the opinion of self thus formed
• The costs and causes of low self-esteem Prof
  Nicolas Emler, Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2001

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Parents expectations

• All parents want to support their child
• Dont know how, where to start or who to ask for
  help.

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Share family learning
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Why Share?

• Flexible
• Fun!

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What is Family Learning?

• Process
• Diverse practice
• Creative delivery
• Learner defined
• Mutual respect

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What is Family Learning?

• Diet
• Quick fix
• Healthy Eating
• Long term impact

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Share Aims

• Raising childrens attainment
• Engaging with parents/carers to support their
  childrens education
• Parents/carers who will reflect on their own
  learning needs
• A catalyst to help schools/settings manage the
  involvement of parents/carers in the life of the
  school

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What is Share?

• Aim

Successful?
How did it go?
Demonstration
Typical model
Doing
At home
In school
QUALITY
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Share Materials

• Fun!
• Foundation Stage
• Key Stage 1
• Key stage 2
• Key stage 3

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Foundation Stage

• Fun!
• Appropriate to the effective learning of 3
  5year olds
• Personal, social emotional development
• Communication, language literacy
• Mathematical development
• Knowledge understanding of the world
• Physical development
• Creative development

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Share at Key Stage 1

• FUN
• Promotes active learning
• Promotes the importance of talk to learning
• Cross curricular
• Links to key literacy numeracy skills

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Share at Key Stage 2

• Fun!
• Promotes active learning
• Cross curricular
• Links to key literacy and numeracy skills
• Develops independent learning skills
• Supports the transition from KS2 to KS3

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Share at Key Stage 3

• Promotes active learning
• Cross curricular
• Link to key skills
• Communication
• Application of number
• ICT
• Working with others
• Improving own learning performance
• Problem solving
• Link to citizenship education
• - Social moral responsibility, community
  involvement political literacy
• Link to PSHE promote family discussion
• Fun!

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Healthy Share

• Physical health
• Healthy eating
• Emotional health well being
• Healthy attitudes to medicines, drugs and alcohol
• Health safety
• Health in the community
• Fun

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Computers dont byte!

• Finding your way around the computer
• Developing word-processing skills
• Some simple graphic skills
• Using the internet
• Using email
• Other types of software and peripherals
• ICT at the Foundation stage(5 activities)

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Share Supports Every Child Matters Outcomes

• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well-being

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Positive features of Share

• Enables and empowers parents to help their child
• Helps parents to understand how their children
  learn and are taught in school
• Provides parents with strategies to support
  childrens learning at home
• Supports and improves adult skills
• Helps raise childrens attainment in school
• Provides an enjoyable learning experience
• Acknowledges the role of the parent as the
  childs first and foremost educator
• Practitioners work in partnership with parents
  and families
• Fostering lifelong learning
• Learning can be fun
• Develops a whole school approach

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Settings have reported

• Strengthening of relationships
• Increase of parents skills and confidence
• Raising of attainment achievement
• Parents more able to understand how children and
  young people learn
• Parents able to develop learning at home
• Parents learn more about what their child is
  doing
• Patience..!

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Parents have reported

• Increase in quality family timewhole family
  organise better use
• Greater awareness understanding of how their
  child learns
• Pleasure in learning together
• Appreciation of their own learningaccreditation
  what Ive done!My child has asked me to
  play!

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Impact of Share

• Empowers parents, children and staff
• Supports relationships for all
• Improves educational attainment and achievement
• Supports parents and carers as learners

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What the children say.

• Mummy, why you no do this before?
• Share Toddler Sandwell 2003
• I can do things with Dad and its fun
• Share child- Dumfries Galloway 2006
• Its great having special time with just me and
  my mum
• Share child Blackburn 2003
• Ive discovered my dads pretty cool really!
• Share Teenager London 2003

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What else?

• Share Plus
• Busy Bees
• Its A Man thing
• Active Dads
• Developing Men Friendly Organisations
• Top Dads
• History Detective
• Breakfast Clubs
• Book it!
• Sum it!

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How can we support you with Share?

• Training support 2 days half day follow up
• Resources materials
• Certificates personal/setting
• CPD professional
• - Approved Trainer
• - Facilitator Training
• Newsletters, website

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How can we support you with Share?

• Local network organised by LEA co-ordinators
• Formal external evaluation 2004
• Annual national conference
• Annual Share Awards
• Termly network for co-ordinators
• Family learning consultancy

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A final thought

• If you have a lot of tension and you get a
  headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle
• Take two and keep away from the children
• Thank you