Digital Family Learning

1. Hull Training & Adult Education
Digital Families
March 2016

2. Project Overview
• Embedding Digital Skills into Family Maths
• Deprived area of the City
• Homework Club
• Targeted training
• Working with both parents and
children
• Go On UK framework

3. Achievements
• Increase in confidence
• Children moved from amber to green
• Parents and children worked together
• Children’s confidence increased
• Worked together to explore digital
• 50% of parents continued with a functional
skills maths qualification
“I have learnt
new
methods of
learning”
“Can help my
child with maths
now”
“Enjoyed spending
time with my
daughter”

4. Impact
• Increase in confidence
– Digital, maths, join other courses, aspirations
• Children moved to secure in area
• Possible improvement in schools SATs results
• Increase of parental interest in children’s
academic achievements
• Improved Digital Citizen Skills

5. Barriers
• Time
• Staff Intensive
– Needs input from Family Learning Staff, Teachers,
Crèche Staff, School Liaison Officer, Interpreter
• Needs commitment from school
– Needs promotion, release the teachers
• Understanding the bigger picture
• Cost

6. Possibilities
• Programme rolled out to other schools
• Model applied to other family learning
courses
• Digital embedded across the delivery
• Development
– For teachers - working with adults
– Of relationships between teachers/parents
– Family learning tutors – gaining current practice
knowledge of curriculum

7. Future Plans
• Model rolled out to another school
• To be advertised as part of the family learning
programme from September
• Coding club
• Digital focussed training across the provision
• Blended learning
– VLE – populated with children and adult content
• Digital Employability and Citizen Skills