Training Programmes
In addition to writing and delivering bespoke learning programmes for schools, community associations, youth clubs and voluntary organisations, we have a 'core' curriculum of successful activities which we are proud to promote in our desire to influence and inspire change and achievement through innovative learning opportunities.
Training programme modules are designed for school staff, teaching assistants, learning mentors and volunteer staff working with children, parents and carers in school and community settings.
Programme fees include all appropriate materials and resources necessary to work with a minimum of 10 parents and their children.
All modules are delivered by Learning Beyond Ltd and associate education consultants.
Delivery of modules is dependent upon sufficient demand and availability of appropriate venues. If your school can offer a venue at no cost then you attend free!
LATEST TRAINING NEWS ....
Providing parenting support
Parent Support training is offered over 4 days and will cover the two major areas of work that staff are likely to undertake in order to be efficient and effective in their professional roles in supporting parents, children and their families.
1. The generic modules are compliant with the Every Child Matters Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for Children’s Workforce staff and are aligned to the Children’s Workforce Development Council induction standards.
2. The role specific modules link to relevant National Occupation Standards.
This Common Core and National Occupational Standards linkage will contribute towards underpinning knowledge and understanding for the accredited Support Work in Schools [SWiS] qualification, which again is optional and available from a variety of training providers.
Duration: 4 Days
Number of Places: 15
Price upon request
Full Neuro-Linguistic Programme Diploma
Walsall/Birmingham area!!
This internationally accredited 4 day diploma in NLP is really a set of insights and skills and is a bit like an 'owners manual' for your brain! With these skills you can actively use your mind, your emotions and your body to run your own life more successfully and to communicate with other people with 'extra-ordinary' effectiveness.
The course will enable you to improve how you think, behave and feel - and assist others do the same. Just imagine the advantage you will have when working with professional colleagues and associates, as well as your family, your partner and your children!
Becoming skilled in NLP will enable you to:
· do whatever you already do … but even better!
· acquire skills and attitudes to do what you cannot do right now, but would like to be able to do!
· think more clearly!
· communicate more effectively with others and … get what you want!
This training is accredited by the International Neuro-Linguistic Programmers Trainers Association (INLPTA).
For more information, please contact Barbara Bennett on 07703 741218 or email at barbara@learningbeyond.co.uk
REGULAR TRAINING EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR ...
Nice Ice Breaks
Effective short ‘brain breaks’ games and activities for classroom, the staffroom and the home!
Duration: 2 hours
Number of places: 10
Price upon request
Eat Your Greens!
Tips and ideas to encourage parents to prepare healthy meals for their families. Session includes practical demonstration and tasting.
Duration: 2 hours
Number of places: 10
Price upon request
Building Partnerships with Parents
Parents are vital to the success in the education of their children. Find out how you can improve your schools relationship with parents, based on the Government's guidance on home-school agreements, and on good practice in schools!
Duration: 2 hours
Number of places: 10
Price upon request
Wake Up Shake Up!
Ideas for parents to re-energise their children in a fun and liveley way
Duration: 2 hours
Number of places: 10
Price upon request
Fit Families!
Advice on how to encourage families to lead active and healthy lifestyles, with the aid of exercise and diet both at home and at school
Duration: 2 hours
Number of places: 10
Price upon request
Building Rapport
Rapport is the key to good communication. Learn to influence children and parents and get the outcome you want!
Duration: 2 hours
Number of places: 10
Price upon request
Funding Matters
Tips and practical ideas that will help to raise funds for your much-needed project
Duration: 2 hours
Number of places: 10
Price upon request
Positive Parents and Confident Children
Down to earth practical advice on creating confident children and positive parents
Duration: 2 hours
Number of places: 10
Price upon request
Learning with the Family
Why is parental involvement and family learning important – find out the facts and figures here
Duration: 2 hours
Number of places: 10
Price upon request
It's A Man Thing!
Designed for men, to help them enjoy reading books together with their children at home and in other settings.
Duration: 2 hours
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
Storybook Weaver
A family learning programme for parents using specially designed software to produce high quality books with and for their children. Work underpins the Skills for Life agenda and is mapped to the Adult Core Literacy Curriculum.
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
NLP - Programmed for Success
Discover the principles of NLP and user-friendly techniques that will support the work of staff working with parents and children. Enhance your own performance in meetings, create success and use non-verbal communication to achieve desired outcomes and change unwanted behaviours in others!
Duration: 2 hours
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
SHARE Parent and School Initiative
The Share School and Parent initiative for learning between the generations is a national scheme in over fifty UK education authorities.
It is designed to reach parents who want to help their child’s learning at
home but do not know the best ways in which to go about it.
Duration: 2 Days
Number of Places: 2 Delegates x 10 organisations
Price upon request
Bags of Stories - Storybag Solutions
Bags of stories and learning activities are a popular, non-threatening way of encouraging parents and carers to start sharing stories and fun learning activities with their children.
Duration: 2 hours
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
Funding Matters!
Enable your school, community association, voluntary group or other learning organisation to write successful funding bids to establish innovative parent focused initiatives.
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 2 Delegates x 10 organisations
Price upon request
Golden Goal
A parenting initiative enabling youngsters to engage in learning activities using the theme of football. Train to design and use a number of football-related activities with families and young people.
Duration: 2 hours
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
History Detectives
Hunt out the criminal and develop literacy skills as mums,
dads and children become amateur detectives on a wide
range of unsolved mysteries!
Duration: 2 hours
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
Coaching Parent
A two-hour programme focusing purely on parents and their role in enabling their children to realise their dreams, whilst reconsidering and validating their own. Parents and Carers will be provided with exercises to help their children and themselves reach their full potential.
Duration: 2 hours
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
Crunching Numbers
Great ideas for parents to help support basic numeracy with children. Find fun with numbers at home, on the bus, shopping and many other places. No maths qualifications needed!
Duration: 2 hours
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
Working in partnership with parents
Understanding the factors that impact on effective engagement with parents, key communication skills, challenges of engagements, processes underpinning working with parents, appropriate methods of offering support and information to parents, effective referral processes, different views on approaches to parenting and the ability to work with parents to identify and support parenting skills.
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 2 Delegates x 10 organisations
Price upon request
Working together for child and family well-being
Know the range of likely partners and existing links, understand the challenges of making and maintaining links, effective brokerage, importance of parents’ involvement in their child’s Learning, challenges faced by some parents, understand family learning and how to involve parents, identify attendance and inclusion difficulties, support parents to support attendance and inclusion, and understanding of key transitions.
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 2 Delegates x 10 organisations
Price upon request
Training the Trainers!
This is a one-day enjoyable opportunity to develop presentation skills and techniques for working with people of all ages. Enhance your performance in front of any audience with confidence and panache.
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
Enhance Your Performance
Performance Enhancement Techniques for Young People
Young people will be able to guarantee to:
· Gain immediate improvement:
· Maintain higher standards
· Increase self-confidence
· Develop a love of learning new things!
This is an intensive full-day course for young people who want to see immediate improvement in their performance whether it is in relation to school work, recreational past-times, employment opportunities or personal development.
The day will be a fun-packed day of games and activities are geared to enhancing personal performance, understanding the demands of people they interact with and succeed in an ever-demanding world.
The ‘Enhance Your Performance’ day is ideally suited for young people who need to raise their self-esteem, confidence and motivation; as well as for those who are approaching interviews, examinations and assessment periods.
Duration: 1 DayNumber of Places: Negotiable
Price upon request
Link to Families through the Nurture Programme
Trained Parent Group Leaders will deliver the Nurturing Programme, a structured course for parents/carers and children in the setting of your choice. Using The Parenting Puzzle and other enjoyable resources, this ten week course supports the development of trust and positive relationships with families.
ü OCN Accreditation Level 1 & 2 for parents [Optional]
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 10
Price upon request
Presenting Power!
This training workshop is simply the most effective presentation skills workshop for those in education. A highly practical course that teaches you how to reduce presentation nerves, boost your credibility and deliver truly outstanding presentations that engage your audience [whatever their age] and get the results you want. Increase your IMPACT and earn the recognition you deserve!
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 20
Price upon request
Involving Men as Fathers
Awareness-raising ‘taster’ day that aim to increase practitioners’ awareness of the issues of involving men when delivering children’s services. This enjoyable seminar offers: practical sessions looking at change; an audit tool; a copy of the Top Dads toolkit or I’m a better dad now; lunch and refreshments.
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 20
Price upon request
Preparing 4 Partnerships with Parents
Practical, generic training on developing facilitation skills for working with adults in a variety of situations, such as in parenting, family learning, task groups, developmental support work; or in consulting and supporting community groups.
- Three days of training,
- Comprehensive resource pack of materials for delegates
- OCN accreditation – seven units at Level 3
Training is mapped against National Occupational Standards for working with parents.
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 20
Price upon request
www. Weave Website Wizardry!
A practical one day session providing you with training to write and maintain your own website – either stand-alone or linked to your school site. In the morning full training will be provided, and the afternoon will be spent with practical application and leaving the day with your website live and running!
*New for January 2009 … Why not combine your web day with a second day on devising your own parent support newsletter? Further details upon request!
Duration: 1 Day
Number of Places: 12
Price upon request
And there's more ...
Learning Beyond are always happy to write specific training programmes and modules to meet the needs and demands of your staff, parents, carers and of course, children of all ages. We can deliver your bespoke requirements at your place of work or indeed, at various training, hotel and conference locations around the UK.
Please do not hesitate to contact Learning Beyond for further details or to book your training requirements. Email: Learning Beyond