As part of the Families in Focus project Turning Point Women's Centre offer an innovative approach to family learning.
Firstly the project recruits local parents and trains them to become Peer educators. Once trained Peer Educators are assigned two families whom they support to carry out family learning activities within the families homes. All of the activities are designed to help with literacy and numeracy and are aimed at improving oralacy.
The families and the Peer Educators work together to devise a plan of activities which suit their needs and interests. All the resources needed for the activities are supplied by the Peer Educator to ensure that cost is kept to a minimum for the family. The majority of the activities are designed to ensure that they are easy and cheap to replicate and are fun for all the family.
To ensure that family learning is ongoing the Peer Educators encourage the families to use other service providers such as local libraries, parks and leisure centres. Peer Educators encourage families to try healthy learning activities such as cooking and discovering the outdoors. Nature trails and bug hunts are really popular things the families like to do together.
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The aim of the home based learning is to give parents, grandparents, carers and other family members the confidence to share fun learning experiences and to ensure that family learning is part of daily life.
To get involved all families have to do is contact us, so long as you live in Braunstone you are eligible to join the project. Once the project is refunded it will be available to a wider area.
All families that join the home based learning side of the project receive a Family Learning Resource Pack where they can store all their family learning activities. They also get access to their own Peer Educator who will encourage them to give family learning a go.
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