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Parenting and Family Learning
It’s often not easy being a parent, even if you’ve had lots of experience! It’s always worth sharing worries and frustrations with others, either with an informal chat or in a group or at a course or workshop.
Workshops are offered during the year on the issues requested by parents in surveys, including dealing with behaviour, living with a teenager, communication etc. The workshops/ courses are advertised through this website, school websites and pupil post - search the bag!
Family Links groups will again be offered during the year: watch this site or leave a message on the Feedback page if you would like information sent to you
Tresa Knight, Home School Community Link Worker, spends time every week in each school and is there to support you on parenting issues. She also sets up support groups in response to need: the latest is for grandparents who are acting as parents for all or part of the time. They welcome new members! See 'Meet the team'.
During September-November, we will offering our first 'Strengthening families' course, on Tuesday evenings at the new Slade Children’s Centre, Titup Hall Drive, Wood Farm. It's a very successful course for a parents and their 10-14 year old child. Let us know if you are interested in being invited to the next, hopefully early in 2012.
There are Learning Mentors in schools who have parent support as part of their role:
Bayards Hill: Carrie Butler and Nicky Tuckwell
Windmill: Sue Lockey
Wood Farm: Alison Britnell and Heather Weitzel
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OCC: Home > Council services > Information for > Parents
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OCC: Home > Council services > Health and social care > Children and families
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This flyer is designed to give you useful contacts in the area; it was instantly out of date when published in May 2011 & will be updated in November
Help available for parents
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Child development
www.bbc.co.uk/parenting
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We are fully committed to the benefits and excitement of parents learning together with their children/young people, in informal situations where you learn so much more from and about each other. Research has proved that parental interest and involvement in a child/young person's learning is more powerful than family background, size of family or level of parental education and, particularly in the primary years, has more impact on attainment than the school itself! And parents often want to get back into learning for themselves after a family learning activity.
So we offer occasional family learning courses and workshops, usually in the arts or science, and there is always plenty available in the Children’s Centres.
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