The document summarizes a family learning program that embeds digital skills into math homework clubs for children and their parents in a deprived area. The program saw increases in confidence for both children and parents. Children improved their math skills and 50% of parents pursued further math qualifications. The program faced barriers like time commitment and costs but showed possibilities to expand to other schools and subjects to strengthen digital and family learning. Future plans include rolling the program out to another school and integrating more digital training and blended 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