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We are a team of  5.6 Family Learning Officers and a Learning Services Coordinator employed by Glasgow Life and based with Glasgow City Council Education Services. Our team are a key strand in Glasgow’s Improvement Challenge; we work closely with a Quality Improvement Officer to help close the ‘poverty related attainment gap’ by building school and nursery staff capacity to develop and deliver a sustainable family learning offer in their establishments.

Working across Early Years and Primary,  we offer resources, training and coaching activities that will enable schools and nurseries to develop effective parental engagement strategies, improve the range and quality of their family learning programmes, increase parental learning and volunteering opportunities, and develop strong partnerships that support quality and sustainability.

To find out more about our work and for details of activity in your area contact:

kathryn.farrow@glasgow.gov.uk (Quality Improvement Officer Education Services)

laura.kennedy@glasgowlife.org.uk (Learning Services Coordinator Glasgow Life)

You can also click on to our sketch note to download a handy summary of the work of our team.

Many of our colleagues in Early Years have been involved in our  popular Families in Partnership Project over the last few years.  We have loved being able to provide quality family learning kits to every child starting school in the city, as this has meant around 6500 families benefitting each year!  This year our funding has been moved to develop another quality family learning  programme Play Along Maths, however you can still make use of our resources and link with your Family Learning Officer to support great family centred transitions.

To download the Early Years Families in Partnership Activity Cards and Toolkit here

To download the Primary One Everywhere Bear Resource Pack click here

We have also been working with our colleagues across primary and early years to gather some of the fantastic practise which is taking place in the area of Family Centred Transitions from Early Years to Primary across the city, and we have two sharing practise events taking place on February 8th and February 22nd 2024.

For more information and to download three best practise overviews from Kingspark Learning Community, Cleeves Primary/Burnbrae Children’s Centre, and St Patricks Primary please click Family Centred Transitions Showcase.