Family Learning Day At The Old Dean - Big Success!!
Over 130 people came along to the Family Fun Day at the Youth Centre on Saturday 11th October. The event was timed to coincide with Family Learning Festival which aims to promote learning together; which not only helps establish good communications, but helps develop skills and motivation in children.
Year One and Year Two children from Pine Ridge and Lorraine Infant Schools got events off to a great start with some well rehearsed songs as their families watched proudly.
After the singing, the Fun Day was in full swing and families had a really busy and enjoyable day.; learning how to pay the guitar, the African Drums, make a Robot, a puppet or have their face painted.
Hubble was there with his puppet friends to entertain everyone with a fantastic performance and told everyone how much fun it was to learn together. Parents danced and children were encouraged to "boogie" with Boogie Mites and everyone had the chance to make a healthy lunch.
Families had the opportunity to find out about Pathways, a project to help people on incapacity benefits back into employment with A4e and adults could find out about local courses at the Old Dean Advisory Centre, with Brooklands College or Adult and Community Learning.
Organisers Elizabeth Whiddett from Surrey Lifelong Learning Partnership, Sarah Sewell from Surrey Heath Confederation of Schools and Paula Stubbings from Pine Ridge Children’s Centre commented that the day really bought families together as a community to investigate, play and learn new things thanks to support from the Youth centre for the use of its facilities, the co-op for supplying the food and Surrey County Council for the main funding.
We hope to build on the success of this event by developing other opportunities for family learning in the area.
