Our School Primary Nursery Community Church School Safeguarding Calendar Contact Login Selecteer een taal▼ Family Learning Family Learning Facilities Prices and Booking A Church Near You Somerset Choices West Monkton Parish BACH BACH Virtual Tour Family Learning This page will give you an overview of the Family Learning Opportunities we offer at West Monkton! We are proud to be the only school in Taunton to work with SS&L to offer adult learning opportunities. If you would like any further information please see Mrs Lawrence. Family Learning Vision and Aims.docx New Year plans for Family Learning! This year we are excited about providing opportunities for adults to learn both alongside their children and in adult only sessions. Watch this space for .. Curriculum courses Spirituality and mindfulness workshops Healthy food sessions Health and wellbeing courses Forest school sessions Thanks to SS&L who fund our project September 2020 - June 2021 Another fantastic year for Family Learning with over 200 adult learners taking part in courses or workshops with their children. Due to restrictions we continued to embrace online courses offering learners in many different areas including spirituality, English, Transitions and cooking. See below for some case studies of a couple of our courses. Phonics Workshop - Year 1 20 learners joined our Zoom phonics workshop this September. Please see the PP below if would like to know a little more about phonics! Thank you to the learners who were happy to trial virtual family learning and who all took part with enthusiasm! The learners received 2 goodie bags with resources to support their learning. Phonics Workshop Goodie Pack filled with resources to support adults helping their children with phonics ... including treats! Let's Cook! Six families joined Mrs Lawrence and Miss Floris for 2 sessions of family learning promoting eating a healthy diet. Families (including teachers) learnt new skills and had lots of fun with resources and ingredients provided thanks to SS&L funding. We cooked together with our families and made a yummy Spaghetti Bolognese, had a 'rate the plate' jelly competition and gave each other hints and tips to encourage children to eat more veggies! We would love to run more sessions around cooking and food nutrition so watch this space in the coming months! Ingredients provided for learners! September 2019 - July 2020 What an amazing and unique year of Family Learning we have had! Over 150 adult learners took part in courses or workshops throughout the year. We have run bread making workshops with 'The truth about food' talks Welcome to phonics workshops Mastery maths workshops Literacy Boost Course for Year 1 families First Aid courses with certificate of attendance Literacy Boost course for Year 2 parents and carers. We have also run our first workshop In Ruishton Primary and hope to do many more and we have also supporting Blackbrook Primary in running their first Family Learning sessions. During the summer term we have all now experienced home learning in a global pandemic! Many parents and carers have become teachers and had to learn many new skills. Our school has been a champion of zoom offering children and their families weekly opportunities to be taught by class teachers. We also offered two virtual family learning opportunities this term. Solveig from Live Naturally a number of our families took part in a breadmaking session. Cross stitch introduction with Mrs Lawrence. In both workshops the resources were either delivered or provided to the families so they could take part. Zoom was used as a platform to deliver the workshops and to celebrate the learning. Family Learning is led by Mrs Lucy Lawrence "I have been involved in Family Learning in West Monkton for the last 10 years and leading it for 7 years. I also teach Year 1 and have been teaching EYFS and KS1 for 15 years. I love every minute of classroom teaching and Family Learning gives me another opportunity to be excited about learning and share my love of learning with others." Family Learning tutors include Miss Quita West, Mr Nick Benbow and many other teachers from the school who support family learning sessions, sharing their passion for life long learning. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that Play Video 01823 412582 office@wm.oak.education Bridgwater Road, Bathpool, Taunton, TA2 8FT eSchools uses cookies. View our privacy and cookies policy Cookie Preferences and Privacy Policy © School website design by eSchools. Content provided by West Monkton CEVC Primary School. All rights reserved. 2021 eSchools uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on this website.Learn more DismissAccept specificAccept all