Sign Posting Onto Future Learning

Family Learning Festival

Sign posting onto future learning

Family Learning Festival activities are taster events to stimulate further learning.

Take advantage of the ‘captive audience’ of adults coming to your event,in order to promote further learning opportunities. Here are some suggestions used by FLF organisers.

• Have a display of prospectuses, leaflets, posters and other information about courses and learning opportunities held at your venue and other places such as libraries, museums, schools and community colleges.

• Ask local training providers to provide information about their courses and invite them to attend your event to answer queries.

• Ask tutors leading workshops to give out further information about courses related to their activity. For example, as well as giving out recipes, a cookery tutor could provide information about local cooking classes. A fitness session could end with giving out brochures from the local sports centre.

• A Functional Skills tutor or support worker could come along to an event and identify adults who need support. They can then talk to them privately about what to do next.

• Organise a taster session linked to the activities you have arranged and promote at your event. For example if you held a ‘Language Day’, set up tasters in French or sign language. If you held a Healthy Living Day, arrange a follow-up cookery session. Take the names of interested adults on the day so you have a ready-made class.

• Ask families what else they would like to do. Use your feedback methods. Take the names and contact details of those interested in more family activities so you can contact them when the next opportunity arises.

• Ask the library service to put out a display of children’s books, information on when the local library is open and how to join. They may also have a children’s librarian who will come along to the event and read stories.

• Invite local community groups and services to come along and talk to the families. In the relaxed atmosphere of a Family Day adults may find it easier to talk to Homestart, Surestart, health visitors, community policemen, fire service etc. They may put on activities to encourage ‘first contact’ and they are expert in encouraging discussion.

• Provide lists of websites so that families can make contact with other learning providers.

• Display courses and career advice available from Adult Learning and Skills.