Family Learning Kingston upon Hull LEA

Scale of Basic Skills Need in Adults 7 million people in Britain have poor literacy skills and numeracy skills, including ½ million who struggle with English because it is not their first language.

Scale of Need - Adults 23% of adults in Britain have low literacy and /or numeracy skills, can’t write a letter to school, find a plumber in the Yellow Pages or check the change from £2 6% have very low skills 40% of lone parents with children 5-16 have poor literacy or numeracy skills 32% of unemployed have low literacy skills or numeracy skills Almost 75% of people whose first language is not English score below ‘survival level’

Scale of need in Hull- adults In Hull 29.6% of adults have poor literacy skills 31.7% of adults have poor numeracy skills Noddle Hill has 43.2% of adults with poor literacy and 50.4% with poor numeracy

Scale of need- children KS2 88% of all 11 year olds achieved level 4 or above in numeracy Hull 71% 77% of all 11 year olds achieved level 4 or above in literacy Hull 66% 33% of 11 year olds achieve level 5 in literacy and numeracy Boys still fall behind girls

Scale of need –Children KS3 70% of all 14 year olds achieved level 5 or above in numeracy Hull 55% 68% of all 11 year olds achieved level 5 or above in literacy Hull 57% 42% of 11 year olds achieve level 6 in literacy and numeracy Gender differences are less marked

Comparisons of need with Europe and Canada

People with poor basic skills are:- Likely to have fallen behind with reading and maths by the age of 10 More likely to be unemployed Will earn up to 11% less than others More likely to be in poor health More likely to be involved in crime Less likely to be involved in public life

People with poor basic skills are:- More likely to have played truant from school More likely to have children who are struggling in school Less likely to go into their children’s school Less likely to have high expectations for their children Less likely to be confident that they can help their children with school work

Government’s Priority Groups Unemployed people and benefit claimants Prisoners and those supervised in the community Public sector employees Young adults Other groups at risk of social exclusion Parents People who live in disadvantaged communities

What is needed ‘What is needed is communication between school and all parents with a flow of information in both directions, schools valuing the parents’ contribution, time (always a precious and limited resource) set aside for parents and training and support for teachers.’ Literacy goes to school Jo Weinberger 1996

Success through Difference ‘It is a model based on the belief that contrasting rather than similar home and school strategies and practices provide a larger treasure trove from which to draw for school learning’ City Literacies- Eve Gregory and Ann Williams 2000

Range of Provision Family Literacy Family Numeracy Keeping up with the Children Keeping up with the Children+ Pacesetter Early Start Wider Family Learning

Aims of the Family Programmes To involve families in learning opportunities together To inform parents about the school curriculum To build skills so that parents are more able to help their children with schools work To provide a magnet for drawing adults into adult education To provide opportunities for progression To demonstrate that learning can be fun

Features of Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy Programmes They have a specific basic skills content They have an integrated curriculum which involves working in teams The curriculum is mapped to the standards They build on home activities They involve home activities They involve an assessment of learners’ needs They involve an evaluation and monitoring process