The Play Tree
Family learning encourages learning through play – come and have fun togeTher while discovering how even the simplest games can improve your child’s learning. Tell us about your favourite games riddles and rhymes –and take away some new ones.
With Family Learning
and Lickety Spit theatre Company
Lickety Spit theatre Company
For more information visit: www.licketyspit.com
Family Learning and the Edinburgh Mela
Caring for a family and bringing up children can be a challenging task. Many parents and carers want to support their children’s learning or catch up with the skills they are developing. Family Learning works with parents and carers who wish to keep involved in their children’s learning after they have started nursery and school.
Through offering work in small friendly groups and larger annual events(e.g. nursery-primary transition, summer activities) we encourage parents to look at, and value, their own family’s learning. We support and value what parents already do at home and in their everyday lives and encourage them to develop their own learning while supporting their children.
Amongst oTher things, parents and carers attending Family Learning groups can share experiences with oTher parents, find out more about their child's education, help their child with reading and writing, brush up on their learning skills, talk about educational issues affecting their family and build stronger links with their children’s school. Crucially, of course, adults who are actively engaged in and enjoying learning provide a good role model for children.
Family Learning Workers are employed by City of Edinburgh Council Children and Families Department as part of Community Learning.
For general information about different strands of Community Learning, the Edinburgh Grid for Learning www.egfl.net gives information about schools, Adult Learning and oTher Children and Families’ facilities.
This year Family Learning will ran a Play Tent in the MELA Children’s Zone based on enjoying game playing with children and offering Games and Songs in conjunction with Lickety Spit theatre Company. We gaThered information about what Rhymes, Songs and Games families like to be collated into a publication/CD in the coming year.
Contact
To contact Family Learning workers, please e-mail any worker from the list below by adding @educ.edin.gov.uk to their name written in lower case punctuated by a dot.
E.g. jane.prowse@educ.edin.gov.uk
Family Learning Workers in Edinburgh
South:
Jane Prowse
Pauline Ross
North & Leith:
Karen Buist
Jacqui Bain
Alan Addison
North West:
Barbara Middleton
Linda Gibson
Helen Purves
West:
Mhairi McNeill
South West:
Lorna Hoy
City Wide:
Heather Muchamore
(Black & Ethnic Minority Inclusion – Secondment)
Alternatively call Heather on 554 9951 or 555 6035
