What are your children learning in LifeSpace ?
Life Education East Midlands is a unique and inspirational Charity, delivering programmes to children age 3 – 11 years. All the sessions we deliver are age-appropriate and aim to provide the children with an unforgettable experience. They will learn about the body and how to keep it healthy, understand that we are all unique, and develop the skills & self-confidence to make healthy choices now and in their future. For more information about our LifeSpace sessions look at our Leaflet for Parents and Carers.
Pop-in…
During our visit to your child’s school we will offer a “pop-in” session specifically for you, so why not come and see us and how we work with your children. You can see exactly what we do, what we talk about and ask us what ever you like.
In addition to the workshops for parents in the mobile classroom our highly trained educators work with Mums, Dads, Grandparents and Carers, delivering the following fun and exciting Family Learning courses:
What is Family Learning
The Nottinghamshire branch of Life Education East Midlands provides Family Learning courses, funded by Inspire Learning and Nottinghamshire City Council. Our courses are developed to help you help your children and can be delivered online via Zoom or at your school.
“The program has been great to bond and share learning experiences with new people and for our children gaining confidence along the way and finding out that not all apps are scary, that they are there to help you learn”
(Parent at Victoria Primary)
OUR COURSES
We are here to help you help your children.
Feel Good Families (8 weeks x 2.5 hours) :
This 8 week course for parents / carers / grandparents aims to build confidence, knowledge and skills needed for enjoyable and successful parenting. The course has a different focus each week, offering participants the opportunity to think about what works well for them in their family lives. Through discussions, activities and presentation they cover topics such as how to look after themselves so that they can look after their children even better, gain a few more techniques to manage their children’s behaviour and help everyone manage stress levels, as well as learn about how to talk with their children about drugs.
The sessions are structured but informal, aiming to encourage participants to contribute, meet other parents and carers, and above all to enjoy themselves. Each session lasts about 2.5 hours. For more detailed information see our Feel Good Families flyer.
Family SEAL for Primary and Nursery (8 weeks x 2.5 hours or 4 weeks x 2.5 hours) :
[For adults with children joining for the last part of each session]
Family SEAL outlines the links between the support mothers, fathers, grandparents and carers provide their children when they are developing the social, emotional and behavioural skills – and children’s school based work.
It is intended to help parents become familiar with what is taught in school, and to understand in what ways they can support their children with learning. For more detailed information see our Family SEAL Nursery & Primary flyer.
SEAL stands for Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning. These aspects are:
• Self-Awareness: Understanding ourselves, our thoughts and feelings; knowing what we are good at; knowing our preferred learning styles; understanding our personality; knowing our normal reactions and attitudes
• Managing Feelings: self-regulation; making wise choices about our behaviour
• Empathy: recognising and understanding the feelings and mood of other people; understanding life from another’s point of view
• Motivation: the skills we need to keep motivated and interested in what we do; developing resilience, persistence; attitudes to making mistakes; developing an ‘I can’ attitude
• Social Skills: This is about learning the skills we need to work and play together and form friendships; belonging to a community; friendships and other relationships; working together; resolving conflicts; standing up for myself; making wise choices
Cyber Heroes (4 weeks x 2.5 hours) :
[For adults only or families together]
Helping parents to keep themselves and their children safe online and using technology to develop other hobbies besides using the internet.
For more detailed information see our Cyber Heroes flyer.
Robots and Coding (4 weeks x 2.5 hours) :
[For adults only or families together]
Robots and Coding looking at using coding apps to control robots and build Lego, helping parents become familiar and keep up to date with what their children are learning at school.
For more detailed information see our Robots and Coding flyer.
Family Fortunes (4 weeks x 2.5 hours) :
[For adults only or families together]
Family Fortunes is an exciting 10-hour family learning programme supported by the Money Advice Service and it is completely free to your school. It is designed to build financial capability and support children and parents to develop positive money habits.
For more detailed information see our Family Fortunes flyer.
Family SEAL for Transition (6 weeks x 2.5 hours) :
[Children and parents work together for the majority of the course]
The teenage years are full of mixed feeling and unusual behaviour, as young people come to terms with changing from being a child at primary school to becoming a more grown up person in secondary school. This invaluable course will help you to support your child’s transition to their new secondary school so that they become successful, happy, confident and responsible in their new setting, and at home.
For more detailed information see our Family SEAL for Transition flyer.
Parents and young people work together to develop:
• Successful Learners
• Confident individuals
• Responsible youngsters
“The course has definitely been very helpful and useful in helping us as a family become much more aware of online safety, how we can be more careful and think before posting anything online, also information on using various tools and websites/apps that are available to help.”
(Parent on Zoom)
WORKSHOPS
Our 3 introductory 2 hour workshops designed to support parents with some tricky issues.
Family Cyberwise (2 hours) :
[adults only or families together]
An introduction to helping parents to keep themselves and their children safe online, including setting parental controls, and looking at some very useful sites for parents.
For more detailed information see our Family Cyberwise flyer.
Relationships Education (2 hours) :
[Adults only]
An adult only workshop for parents / carers of children years 4, 5 and 6. We recognise that parents play a vital part in their child’s Relationships Education, and we would encourage you to explore these questions with your child at home as well as at school.
For more detailed information see our Relationships Education flyer.
Talking Tough Topics (2 hours) :
[Adults only]
This workshops looks at how to prepare your children for the dangers facing teenagers today. An adult only workshop for parents / carers of children years 5 and 6. We all worry about how well our children will cope with the situations such as online grooming, bullying, gangs, knife crime, County Lines, drugs, gambling and so much more.
For more detailed information see our Talking Tough Topics flyer.
“I felt the course was very helpful and provided tools and ideas to use to assist my children. I found it helpful being able to access it over Zoom as it is difficult sometimes to attend in person. It was also very comforting to hear other parents/carers in the same position and that school is also actively trying to support children and parents.”
(Parent on Zoom)
COSTS
The cost of running an 8 week course is £1,700.
Many schools, nurseries, and children’s centres are eligible for funding so please contact us:
Email: surearcher@lecn.co.uk
Other useful links :
The Nottinghamshire branch of Life Education East Midlands has joined the SEAL Community – if you are interested in finding the original SEAL resources, finding lots of new and additional resources or communicating with other folks who are teaching SEAL, please visit: http://sealcommunity.org/
The Family Learning Inquiry in England and Wales (2013) highlighted,
“Family Learning improves health and employability, and increases involvement in community, cultures and sport.”
We are very grateful to our delivery partners who provide the funding for these courses.
Courses for families, parents and carers :
Family Coding (1.3 MiB)
FL Courses provided by LECN (277.9 KiB)FL Courses provided by LECN Coping_Anxiety_School (642.4 KiB)Coping with Anxiety - 4 week course for parents at school Coping_Anxiety_Zoom (621.8 KiB)Coping with Anxiety - 4 week course for parents via Zoom CyberHeroes_School (1.6 MiB)Cyber Heroes - 4 week course for parents at school CyberHeroes_Zoom (609.8 KiB)Cyber Heroes - 4 week course for parents via Zoom Family_Cyberwise_School (3.0 MiB)Family Learning 2 hour workshop at school Family_Cyberwise_Zoom (3.0 MiB)Family Learning 2 hour workshop via Zoom Family_Fortunes_School (1.7 MiB)4 week Family Learning course with Children age 7 to 11 held at school Family_Fortunes_Zoom (1.6 MiB)4 week Family Learning course with Children age 7 to 11 held via Zoom Family_Fun_Tablets_School (640.9 KiB)Family Learning 4 week course held at school Family_Fun_Tablets_Zoom (615.5 KiB)Family Learning 4 week course held via Zoom Family_SEAL_School (661.9 KiB)8 week course for families Family_SEAL_Zoom (647.9 KiB)8 week course for families FamLearn_Overview_Document (2.1 MiB)Family Learning Overview Feel_Good_Families_School (676.3 KiB)8 week Parenting Skills Course in School Feel_Good_Families_Zoom (655.0 KiB)8 week Parenting Skills course via Zoom Relationships_Education_School (1.9 MiB)2½ Hours Relationships Education Course Robots_Coding_School (2.1 MiB)Family Learning 4 week course Talking Tough Topics -School (1.9 MiB)A 2½ hours Workshop for Adults Only Family_SEAL_Transition_School (1.6 MiB)Four online sessions for Year 6 children and parents/carers to attend together.