Engaging with the community
Family literacy, language and numeracy programmes can benefit parents and carers, pupils and the school in general.
Parents and carers can:
- improve their literacy, language and numeracy skills and gain a national qualification
- understand how their children learn and how to help them
- build more positive and supportive relationships with their children, and
- develop their confidence and self-esteem.
Children can:
- get help with their literacy, language and numeracy skills at a crucial stage of their lives
- see their parents as positive role models, and
- build stronger family relationships.
Schools can:
- raise standards of literacy, language and numeracy
- promote themselves as learning communities
- meet the Ofsted criteria for involving parents and carers in children’s learning and development, and
- encourage parents and carers to get involved with the school as volunteers, staff or school governors.
The National Literacy Trust offers advice and guidance on developing family literacy, language and numeracy programmes.
