Family learning
Numeracy: Functional Maths, General numeracy / maths, Money
Free tags: Family learning, Christmas
Context: Catering Food Nutrition, Health, Social care, Early years
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Investigation or project
I adapted this from Helen Lloyd’s Planning a school party (see below). I used her idea to develop a task that my students could manage on their own while I was doing a first aid course. This version includes an extra task about providing a Santa and gifts, and I also included some simple fraction questions.
I used Helen’s supermarket list for prices of party food etc.
Literacy: General literacy / English
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths
General: Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
Free tags: Family learning
Context: Health and safety, Independent living
Resource type: Discussion points, Game
Level: E3, L1, L2
An outstanding set of resources. Developed to prompt discussion on knife crime with parents and children in a family learning setting, they are equally suitable in an FE setting – prompting discussion between students and tutors.
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, Money
Free tags: Family learning, Christmas
Context: Catering Food Nutrition, Health, Social care, Early years, Retail Hospitality Customer service
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Investigation or project
Open task where learners must plan a good value party for 68 children and present their budget to the headmaster. Ideal for revision of money, decimals, budgeting, estimating and presenting information.
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths, Common Measures
Free tags: Family learning, Christmas
Level: E1, E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity
Star templateChristmas Star template was designed to accompany Sarah Horsley’s How to Make a Christmas Star resource (below) and makes the folding and cutting process easier. Ideal when using Sarah’s resource in a family learning situation.
Literacy: Reading, Rs/E3.1
Numeracy: Measures shape and space
General: Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
Free tags: Family learning, Christmas
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity
Level: E1, E2, E3, L1
How to make a Christmas starA fabulous set of illustrated instructions. Makes a great activity for literacy and numeracy classes (reading instructions, measuring, shapes, etc.) at many levels.
For an easy to use template please see Bryan Fitzpatrick’s accompany resource below.
Literacy: Rs/E2.2, Rs/E2.3, Rs/E3.2, Wt/E2.1, Wt/E3.1, Wt/E3.4
Free tags: Family learning, Christmas
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Cloze exercise, Worksheet or assignment, Writing frame
Help your child choose presents and write a letter to Santa (great for family learning groups). Includes a cloze / writing frame.
Literacy: Rt/E2.2, Rt/E3.2, Rt/L1.2, Rt/L2.2
Free tags: Family learning
Level: E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Discussion points, Warm-up
Purpose and audience task sheets provide a good ice breaker for mixed ability and family literacy groups and make for easy differentiation as learners choose their own texts to work with.
Numeracy: N1/E3.2, N1/E3.1, N1/L1.1, N1/L1.2, N1/L2.1
Free tags: Family learning
Context: Employment skills & Public services
Level: E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Game
A great way to work with money and larger numbers (with the option of covering negative numbers). Can be differentiated for learners from E3-L2 by altering the starting balance. Includes game cards (balance, income and expenditure cards), a balance sheet and full instructions. Written for a family learning situation but can be adapted for other groups.
