Family Learning
Family Learning
We are fortunate to be able to offer a range of courses for parents and carers in partnership with the adult education organisation Aspire. These courses help parents and carers to support their children at home and in school and can also give parents the opportunity to gain qualifications. They offer parents, grandparents and children the opportunity to learn together to acquire new skills as well as a chance to share ideas with other parents.
The majority of courses are run by external trainers who have previously been teachers.
We are extremely proud of the full programme of Family Learning opportunities we provide at Buckingham Park. The programme aims to encourage parents to engage with their child’s learning and makes sure they are equipped with the methods and techniques needed to support learning.
This year we have run a three week Keeping up with the Children (Maths) course and three First Aid for Families courses as well as a Reading course and a three week Fun with Phonics course.
Please click on the link attached to find out more information about Aspire Sussex and the training programmes they offer.
We have also run two Parent Gym courses. This was a very successful course which we ran last year to support parents to develop positive parenting techniques at home. The feedback from parents who attended last year was extremely positive.
In November we offered parents of children in Year 2 the chance to come into school and participate in a maths workshop with the children and the Year 2 teachers. This was extremely successful and enjoyable.
Read the positive comments from the recent maths course:
“I feel much more confident with helping my children with their maths. The games and worksheets were brilliant and the times tables tricks are really helpful. Maths feels more fun for my daughter (Year 3). She is really enjoying learning her times tables. It was great to hear other parents’ ways of helping”.
“The way that the children add up in school makes a lot of sense and makes it easier for them. Thank you very much for running this course. I am much more comfortable in participating with my son’s maths learning”.
“I feel much more confident that I know how multiplication is taught at each stage. This will make it easier to help my children. This is a great course for showing me how my children are taught maths at each stage, as this is different from how I was taught. It has allowed me to help them out more with their maths – without confusing them!”.
“I didn’t realise I was actually already doing maths with my children until today, when we spoke about shopping and baking”.
“Now I know how to help them work it out the way they do it!”
“I feel so confident in helping my son now. I’ve a completely different attitude to maths and how to help him, as I now understand what’s expected of him and how I can help outside of school. A really great course”.
“(At home) we’ve put a positive ‘spin’ on maths – it isn’t a chore anymore. I feel I can now approach my son about maths and he doesn’t close up. He loves that I have been to school to learn like him. He no longer has his phobia”.
“I’m now more confident in talking about maths and understand more of the vocabulary used in school”.