Transcript Family Learning

Family Learning
Kingston upon Hull
LEA
Scale of Basic Skills Need in
Adults
7 million people in Britain have
poor literacy skills and
numeracy skills, including ½
million who struggle with
English because it is not their
first language.
Scale of Need - Adults
23% of adults in Britain have low literacy
and /or numeracy skills, can’t write a letter
to school, find a plumber in the Yellow
Pages or check the change from £2
6% have very low skills
40% of lone parents with children 5-16
have poor literacy or numeracy skills
32% of unemployed have low literacy skills
or numeracy skills
Almost 75% of people whose first language
is not English score below ‘survival level’
Scale of need in Hull- adults
In Hull 29.6% of adults have poor
literacy skills
31.7% of adults have poor numeracy
skills
Noddle Hill has 43.2% of adults with
poor literacy and 50.4% with poor
numeracy
Scale of need- children KS2
88% of all 11 year olds achieved level
4 or above in numeracy
Hull 71%
77% of all 11 year olds achieved level
4 or above in literacy
Hull 66%
33% of 11 year olds achieve level 5 in
literacy and numeracy
Boys still fall behind girls
Scale of need –Children KS3
70% of all 14 year olds achieved level
5 or above in numeracy
Hull 55%
68% of all 11 year olds achieved level
5 or above in literacy
Hull 57%
42% of 11 year olds achieve level 6 in
literacy and numeracy
Gender differences are less marked
Comparisons of need with
Europe and Canada
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Sweden
Germany
Canada
Britain
People with poor basic skills
are:Likely to have fallen behind with
reading and maths by the age of 10
More likely to be unemployed
Will earn up to 11% less than others
More likely to be in poor health
More likely to be involved in crime
Less likely to be involved in public life
People with poor basic skills
are:More likely to have played truant from
school
More likely to have children who are
struggling in school
Less likely to go into their children’s school
Less likely to have high expectations for
their children
Less likely to be confident that they can
help their children with school work
Government’s Priority
Groups
Unemployed people and benefit claimants
Prisoners and those supervised in the
community
Public sector employees
Young adults
Other groups at risk of social exclusion
Parents
People who live in disadvantaged
communities
What is needed
‘What is needed is communication
between school and all parents with a
flow of information in both
directions, schools valuing the
parents’ contribution, time (always a
precious and limited resource) set
aside for parents and training and
support for teachers.’
Literacy goes to school Jo Weinberger 1996
Success through Difference
‘It is a model based on the belief that
contrasting rather than similar home
and school strategies and practices
provide a larger treasure trove from
which to draw for school learning’
City Literacies- Eve Gregory and Ann Williams
2000
Range of Provision
Family Literacy
Family Numeracy
Keeping up with the Children
Keeping up with the Children+
Pacesetter
Early Start
Wider Family Learning
Aims of the Family
Programmes
To involve families in learning opportunities
together
To inform parents about the school
curriculum
To build skills so that parents are more
able to help their children with schools
work
To provide a magnet for drawing adults
into adult education
To provide opportunities for progression
To demonstrate that learning can be fun
Features of Family Literacy, Language
and Numeracy Programmes
They have a specific basic skills content
They have an integrated curriculum which
involves working in teams
The curriculum is mapped to the standards
They build on home activities
They involve home activities
They involve an assessment of learners’
needs
They involve an evaluation and monitoring
process