21^st Century Family Learning Modules are designed for educators to deliver creative activities to a small group of parents/adults and children in an out of school hours learning environment such as a family learning class or centre.  The activities are supplied with discussion points for child, adult and joint sessions so are flexible to your needs.  Within the Modules each adult and child partnership will be making a project between them over four sessions.   Each of the four sessions is designed to last about one hour each, so you can choose to run the Module over four one hour sessions or maybe combine them into two longer sessions.  Each Module is supplied with 10 dies, an Activity Guide and consumables for 6 adult and child partnerships.  Additional consumables (sold in 6’s) are available for the same Module to be delivered to a larger group or for the same Module to be delivered over and over again to new participants.  Modules can be delivered by an organisation’s chosen educator or by a Live & Learn Consultant, tailored to meet the needs of the participants and any specific time constraints.

Key features of the 21^st Century Family Learning Modules Activities include:

•   an objective
•   outcomes and additional links
•   resources required
•   step-by-step instructions
•   National Curriculum-linked discussion points
•   Adult Literacy and/or Numeracy Core Curriculum-linked discussion points
•   Links to relevant Government and global initiatives
•   alternative ways of using the dies

The key benefits include:

•   social, moral, cultural and environmental issues and values can be approached and discussed sensitively in a small group through the making of a craft project
•   encouraging the participants to make a valuable contribution to the group, feel confident and raise their self-esteem
•   adults who are not necessarily qualified teachers can deliver the activities, therefore enabling key members of the community to support education
•   facilitating parents to help children learn and at the same time aid parents to gain basic skills themselves
•   helping to bridge the gap in learning between the child and the parent and actively encourage parental involvement in their child’s education
•   once an initial investment has been made in the dies and the Activity Guide the Module can be delivered over and over again through the purchase of additional consumables, or the dies used in alternative ways