Family Learning at Red Robin House
Family learning encourages family members to learn together. Activities are specifically designed to enable parents and carers to learn how to support their children’s learning and development.
Family engagement sessions support positive attitudes towards life-long learning and parents and carers tell us that they understand more about the part they play in helping their child to progress and flourish.
We know that these experiences promote socio-economic resilience and develop ambition and confidence in parents and carers, supporting them into future employment.
We build strong relationships with colleagues within and outside of our local community who volunteer to work alongside families, run engagement sessions and support the development of friendships and networks. Information and training shared in these sessions are well researched and parents and carers can achieve accreditation for taking part.
Our parents and carers are celebrated in 'Sparkle and Shine' assemblies for their commitment to learning new skills and achieving their personal learning targets.
We deliver literacy and numeracy sessions in conjunction with Life Long Learning and the level 2 and 3 English and Maths courses are particularly well attended. These also take place in our Community room.
If you have ideas for a group you think would be beneficial to parents and carers, please contact Michelle Keens at school. We vary our offer each year and are always keen to hear your ideas on how we can improve the offer to suit our community in the best ways possible.
Big Cook, Little Cook
The “Big Cook Little Cook” courses support parents and children to explore healthy food together through cooking and learning activities. They learn safe and age-appropriate techniques to chop, grate, measure, mix and cook, with emphasis on building their confidence as 'kitchen helpers' with independent skills of their own.
Parents also learn core nutrition skills and important messages about the quality of the food given to children is built into the programme. This also addresses portion sizes for all the family and sugar, fat, salt, food labelling and achieving balanced family eating.
