Parenting
Parent Power
Parent Power aims to ease the day to day pressures of bringing up children. It provides advice on routines, setting boundaries, praise, and overcoming challenging behaviour.
This is a 6 week course. The weekly sessions will last for 2 hours and are fun, practical and down to earth. The course provides a lot of helpful information and good ideas plus the opportunity for people to learn from each other. This course is for parents of children up to the age of 11 years.
The course covers the following topics:
- 'The Perfect Parent’ – Fact or Fiction.
- What makes children behave the way they do?
- How to cope with difficult behaviour.
- The importance of play and knowing your child
- How to handle more serious behaviour.
- Looking after yourself – Time for you.
Armed with the strategies that you will gain from the course, you can build better, closer relationships with your children and have more time to enjoy being a family.
To find out when the next course is running please call the office.
Triple P Courses (Teen and Primary)
Triple P stands for Positive Parenting Programme which aims to promote positive, caring relationships between parents and their children.
This course is designed for parents to learn more about the essential building blocks used to bring up happy, confident children.
The course is suitable for all parents who are interested in information about parenting and promoting their child’s development. This course is for parents of children aged 5-16 years.
The topics covered include:
- The Power of Positive Parenting
- Confident, Competent Children
- Raising Resilient Children
This course aims to provide parents with the confidence and skills to develop effective strategies, which will help them gain a positive relationship with their child.
To find out when the next course is running and to book your place please call the office and speak to Amanda.
Reading Passports
Developed as a result of consultation with schools and parents, the reading passport scheme was designed to encourage parents and children to read together. Each school year had a different passport theme and children were awarded stickers every time they read with an adult. Once they had collected all the relevant stickers, they were issued with a reward. Each passport theme had 3 levels of passport in it, each one requiring more reading time than the last.
Children benefitted from reading and being read to and families benefitted from spending quality time together.
Reading passports were hugely successful in our schools, but due to cuts in funding, we are no longer to administer the scheme.
We are constantly seeking new funding streams and hope that in the future we can secure funds to enable us to re-launch the scheme.
