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 Daddy, Let's PlayDaddy, Let's Play is a full colour booklet that provides activities for dads to do with young children (about 3-5 years). Of course, they can be used by grandparents, mums and others as well! The activities are simple to do; don't require materials not normally found in a home and don't take too long. There are activities for inside and outside and they will appeal to dads and children alike. Daddy, Let's Play is priced at £1.95 but there are generous discounts on larger orders so that Children's Centres, nurseries and other organisations can afford to buy them in and give them out to dads. The authors of Daddy, Let's Play are experienced managers of Children's Centres in the London Borough of Sutton and rural Wiltshire. FREE WORKSHOP NOTES can be downloaded here. Daniel Ayeni and Ali Perry 24pp, A5, £1.95 ISBN: 9 781857 411188 Generous discounts are available on larger orders. Please phone 01363 776888 for more information. |
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Family Learning: Finance Education Penny Wise Finds Out About Borrowing / Saving These two books offer parents and children the opportunity to look at borrowing and saving together through entertaining and amusing stories. Some activities are suggested and there are some basic, but very useful, pages of advice for adults. The resource is suitable for use with children aged about 7-11 years. The stories are also available for use in schools, along with stories about Bills and Taxes. (See the section on Financial capability.) FREE WORKSHOP NOTES can be downloaded here. Andy Flatt Each book: 32 pages A5 £2.50 Borrowing ISBN: 9 781857 411621 Saving ISBN: 9 781857 411478
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Saying Goodbye Saying Goodbye offers in-depth advice and guidance for adults about how to help children and young people deal with an expected death in the family. The book includes detailed sections on telling the children, questions children may ask, ways to encourage communication between adults and children, creating lasting memories together and dealing with death. Saying Goodbye will be of great help to adults going through this most difficult and painful time with children. It will also be a useful resource for professionals working with pre- and post-bereaved families. The price of the book will enable organizations to buy in the book and give them out to families. Generous discounts are available on bulk purchases. Saying Goodbye has been written by experienced specialists from the balloons charity. (www.balloons-devon.org.uk) The book has been produced with financial help from the NHS and the Lottery. Clare Selley and Deborah Butler 48 pages, A5 £3 ISBN: 9 781857 411133 |
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Making Up Stories Time spent making up stories with, and for, children is huge fun and extremely beneficial for the imagination, development and relationship of both child and adult. It is an empowering activity for those who don’t find reading aloud very easy. But even excellent readers can lack the confidence to get started. Making Up Stories uses the basic building blocks of storytelling (who, what, where, why, when), enlivened with inspirational suggestions, to awaken the reader's imagination. They'll soon be making up their own stories from scratch. With the help of delightful illustrations, Making Up Stories points out sources of inspiration at people’s fingertips and covers delivering the stories. It also suggests recording them in various ways – including sharing them on a dedicated website. FREE WORKSHOP NOTES can be downloaded here. To book a workshop email: stories@shakspeare.org Alison Shakspeare 24pp A5 £1.95 ISBN: 9 78881857 411379 For discounts on larger orders for the above (up to 40% off) please use the following downloadable form Family Learning Order Form - pdf 53k |
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How to ENJOY READING ALOUD to Young Children Edmund Pegge and Alison Shakspeare A DIFFERENT kind of booklet for parents, How to ENJOY READING ALOUD to Young Children is about HOW to read with expression and confidence, making sharing stories with children much more rewarding and enjoyable – for both adult and child. How to ENJOY READING ALOUD to Young Children is full of easy to follow techniques and advice using short extracts from well-loved children’s stories, such as Giraffes Don’t Dance, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Thomas the Tank Engine. The colourful Voice Coach takes the reader through sections dealing with making noises, doing voices, showing feelings and being scary. The skills learned and the confidence gained from using How to ENJOY READING ALOUD to Young Children, offer a solid foundation for making sharing books a daily pleasure for adults and children. The techniques illustrated are distilled from Edmund Pegge's resource for teachers ‘Expressive Speech’, based on his experience as a stage and screen actor and the regular poetry and creative writing workshops he runs in the UK and Australia. Free notes are provided (click here to download), with suggestions about running a workshop for parents, after which you could send them away with a copy of How to ENJOY READING ALOUD to Young Children. The price per booklet can be little more than £1 per copy. 24 pages A5 £1.95 9 781857 411560 For discounts on Enjoy Reading Aloud please use the following downloadable form Family Learning Order Form - pdf 53k |
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| BULLYING Bullying: Building a Child’s Confidence focuses on giving parents the confidence and strategies to help build up a child’s confidence following bullying. The one-and-a-half to two hour workshop is aimed at parents / carers of 4–11 year-olds and is supported by photocopiable handouts. The accompanying parent booklet contains helpful advice and information about bullying and the answers to many commonly asked questions about bullying. The author, Sian Morgan has worked extensively with children and adults in the NHS, in education and privately, to help them deal with bullying and to rebuild confidence. She has a B.Med.Sci. (Hons) degree, a postgraduate diploma in psychology, a Masters in Psychology and a postgraduate diploma in designing online resources. Sian has contributed to various educational videos and has been an adviser for TV and radio programmes. |
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Sian Morgan Workshop Manual, A4, 16 pages £12.00 9 781857 411270 |
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Sian Morgan Parent Book, A5, 24 pages £1.95 9 781857 411225 For discounts on larger orders for the above 2 items please use the following downloadable form Family Learning Order Form - pdf 53k |
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Running Successful Workshops Running Successful Workshops covers all aspects of planning, promoting and marketing, organizing, delivering and evaluating workshops. It also includes sections on: • learning styles • working in partnership • how to welcome and involve parents and children with disabilities. There are lots of case studies, icebreakers and advice about delivering workshops from many family learning practitioners. The book is mostly aimed at people who are fairly inexperienced at delivering workshops although there will be plenty for those who are more experienced as well. Lisa Vernon has huge experience in running workshops and family learning events in schools, libraries, museums, colleges, prisons and the workplace. She is a qualified basic skills tutor and delivers training on learning styles. She has worked for the Campaign for Learning and now works for NIACE. Lisa Vernon 52 pages £13.95 9 781857 411072 |
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Living with your Adolescent: Workshop Manual Living with your Adolescent is one parenting workshop all parents could sign up to! The resource provides a detailed one-off workshop to be used with parents and carers of youngsters aged about 9 to 16 years; there are photocopiable resources to be used in the workshop and a PowerPoint presentation on an accompanying CD. Finally a booklet for parents can be bought to give out to parents at the end of the workshop. All the materials are reassuring, practical and accessible, and have a serious theoretical basis. Janet Cotter and Trevor Overton 20 pages, A4, + CD, £15 9 781857 411966 |
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Living with your Adolescent: Parent Booklet There are few greater challenges in life than living with an adolescent! They make you laugh, they make you cry; you want to hug them, you want to wring their necks (oops!); you want to keep them close and safe, you want kick them out and get your life back; they make you proud, they make you cringe with embarrassment; they can be understanding and supportive, yet the next minute you feel you want to tear your hair out. This amusing and entertaining booklet provides seriously good advice and useful strategies for helping parents deal with adolescent children. Generous discounts are available when you buy several packs. Janet Cotter and Trevor Overton 32 pages, A5, £1.95 9 781857 411911 For discounts on larger orders for the Parent booklet please use the following downloadable form Family Learning Order Form - pdf 53k |
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A booklet for teenagers Up Front: About Young People’s Well-being Being a teenager isn’t easy – full of pressure from adults and friends; choices to be made; physical changes; emotions running riot; acne and exams; the list is endless. Up Front is written and produced for teenagers in a way that will engage them, amuse them and inform them. It is down-to-earth and practical; it isn’t ‘preachy’; it is easy to read and highly entertaining. The topics covered in the 32 page booklet include: safe sex, drugs, alcohol, smoking, healthy eating, coping with stress, exercise, self-harming, managing money, body image, feeling depressed and setting goals. The combination of cartoon-style illustrations, the characters who appear throughout the booklet, the light writing style and quality of information provide a very useful and unique booklet. It can be given out ‘cold’, used in class, in youth groups or at home. Up Front is designed to be purchased in bulk by schools, organisations, Local Authorities, PCTs etc, and given out to teenagers. Large discounts are available on bulk orders: please phone 01363 776888 or email info@southgatepublishers.co.uk FREE WORKSHOP NOTES can be downloaded here as a pdf (76k) To order single copies of Up Front @ £1.95 each use the following add to cart button
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Managing Difficult Behaviour: Workshop Manual Managing Difficult Behaviour provides a one-off workshop to be used with parents and carers of children aged 3 to 8+ years. It is not intended for those parents whose difficulties with their child are longstanding or complex, but rather those who are experiencing mild to moderate difficulties in managing their child's behaviour. The manual provides clear guidance on preparing for and running a two-hour workshop and includes photocopiable support materials, including a feedback form. All the materials are reassuring, practical and accessible, and have a sound theoretical basis. The accompanying parent booklet is designed to be purchased in packs and given out to parents. Sonya Hinton 16pp A4, photocopiable. £12 9 781857 411669 |
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Managing Difficult Behaviour: Parent Booklet For parents of children aged 3-8+ The parent booklet which accompanies the workshop provides help and guidance and lots of practical strategies which will help parents deal with difficult behaviour in young children. The booklet is written in an accessible, friendly and lively style. Sonya Hinton 32 pages, A5 £1.95 9 781857 411713 For discounts on larger orders for the Parent Booklet please use the following downloadable form Family Learning Order Form - pdf 53k |
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The Numbers Game Many adults, as well as children, find maths quite scary and certainly wouldn’t consider the subject to be fun. The Numbers Game is for the whole family. It’s colourful, lively, humourous and full of maths that is enjoyable and won’t frighten anyone! Activities include problem solving, solving a murder, a game to learn times tables, how to multiply the Russian way, communicating through codes, the amazing Möbius Strip and much more. For those who want to know a bit more, the clever, but somewhat ‘nerdy’, Matthew Mattick provides a bit more detail (and lots of silly jokes), with the help of his cat Digit, and pet mouse, Fraction. The book is designed, and priced, to be purchased and given out to parents, perhaps at a special event (like a Maths evening), or a workshop. FREE WORKSHOP NOTES can be downloaded here as a pdf. Drummond Johnstone & Chris Wakefield 24 pages A5 £1.95 9 781857 411812 For discounts on larger orders for the above (up to 40% off) please use the following downloadable form Family Learning Order Form - pdf 53k |
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Hot Tips for a Cool Planet Family Activities for Saving the Planet The booklet is 32 pages A5, in full colour. It is aimed at adults but the booklet will be used by the whole family. It’s lively and fun and encourages families to make some changes to their lifestyles, to reduce their carbon footprint. Hot Tips for a Cool Planet is divided into a number of sections dealing with: energy, waste, water, transport, food, carbon footprint, shopping and the home. It includes challenges, activities, some shocking statistics and information. Some of the science that lies behind the information is explained by the Green Man. Generous discounts are available for bulk purchases. Phone 01363 776888. Clare Eastland 32 pages A5, full colour. £1.95 ISBN: 9 781857 411362 For discounts on larger orders for the above (up to 40% off) please use the following downloadable form Family Learning Order Form - pdf 53k |
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Dad did it! Fun for Dads and Kids Dad Did It! is full of things to help dads to amuse, impress, entertain and inform their kids. The book provides lots of really fun activities for dads (and mums) to do with their kids – the kinds of things that dads used to do, like making and flying a kite, creating explosions and delighting their kids with a lumpy custard trick ! The activities are based on science and technology but don’t require any particular technical, DIY or science abilities. None of it is rocket science… (actually, a bit of it is!). All the activities and experiments are carefully described with detailed illustrations. There’s a ‘boffin’ character who has some interesting things to say about all the topics and who helps to explain principles behind the activities. So dads have the opportunity to learn as well. Amongst the activities are: Go Fly a Kite; Tin Telephones; Mysterious Rising Water; Quick Reactions; Ginger Beer Forever; Bean Races; Air Powered Rocket; Camera Obscura; Making Fire and Hot Air Balloons. Chris Wakefield 32 pages A5, full colour. £1.95 ISBN: 9 781857 411164 For discounts on larger orders for the above (up to 40% off) please use the following downloadable form Family Learning Order Form - pdf 53k |
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Five-a-Day pro Convert Your Kids to Fruit and Veg Five-a-Day Pro offers practical advice, tips and information that will help parents to convert their children to the joys of fruit and veg! Yes, really! The authors show how to turn the idea of five-a-day into an exciting challenge rather than an impossible goal. There are plenty of tried and tested recipes to try as well. Jenny Swann and Anne Prendergast 36 pages A5, full colour. £1.95 ISBN: 9 781857 411119 For discounts on larger orders for the above (up to 40% off) please use the following downloadable form Family Learning Order Form - pdf 53k |
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Volunteers in Schools Developing an effective strategy for recruiting and managing volunteers in schools Volunteers are a hugely valuable resource for schools. This book, with its accompanying CD, provides materials designed to help schools to build on the work they already do with volunteers and to get volunteering onto a more organised and sustainable footing. The manual covers issues such as recruitment, retention, funding and training and the CD provides model documents that can be adapted by schools. These include a Volunteer Policy, a handbook for volunteers, information for staff and governors, questionnaire, responsibilities of the volunteer co-ordinator and sample letters. The author, Jean de Rijke, has a long-standing interest in home-school- community partnerships. This led to the development of the Effective Partnerships with Parents Toolkit and Strategy for schools. Underpinning her very practical approach to exploring home-school-community relations was her PhD research into the perceptions and attitudes of parents and teachers that affect partnership working. Book plus CD £13.95 |
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Home Stories Ages 5 – 8 A collection of short stories to be photocopied and sent home with children. The stories, each based upon an issue, can be read by children with their parents. Questions are raised during the stories and there are further suggested questions and activities at the end. Issues include: talking to strangers; physical bullying; respecting nature; controlling anger; playing one parent against another; excluding someone from a game; respect for others’ property; healthy eating; coping when a friend moves away; respecting the elderly; saying unkind things. Gordon Aspland 32 pages £11.95 ISBN: 1–85741–130–7 |
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Inviting Families In A Guide to Organising Family Learning Events Inviting Families In is a practical resource to help schools to organise successful family learning events. It shows how to make family learning appealing to parents and how to involve the so-called ‘hard to reach’ parents. Inviting Families In provides a clear framework to guide you through the whole process of setting up a family learning event. Detailed advice is given about:
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Parents’ File Pack Activities for Children to take Home This resource consists of 120 photocopiable activities for children to take home, divided into six topics: Ourselves; Journeys; Toys; Homes; Living Things; Out and About. There are teacher’s notes, back up materials and certificates. The activities are fun to do, don’t require special equipment and will complement what is being done in school. The emphasis is upon encouraging parents / carers to talk with their child. Ted Wragg and Margaret Williams
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Summer Holiday Activities Ages 4–7 Activities selected from the Parents' File This book contains 25 specially selected activities from the Parents' File, ideal for children and parents to use in the Summer holiday. Many of the activities take place in the outside environment. The book is photocopiable. 32 pages, £5.00 ISBN 1–85741–069–6 ISBN 9–781857–410693 |
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Understanding Barriers to Learning A Guide to Research and Current Thinking A comprehensive overview of the cultural, structural and personal barriers to learning, pulling together the vast amount of research and thinking over the past ten years. An accessibly written, and valuable reference, for those working in the fields of family learning and lifelong learning. Peter Maxted |
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Family Learning: an agenda for action In 2000, the Campaign for Learning and partner organisations published A manifesto for family learning which called for greater support and resources for family learning. Family Learning: an agenda for action looks again at what we mean by family learning, the impact that it can have on children, young people and adults and why it should be supported. The booklet highlights recent policy developments and research evidence, illustrates some of the excellent work that is already being done and makes recommendations to government and its agencies as to how this work may be built on and made sustainable. This publication will be of interest to:
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