Family Literacy in Prisons Our latest initiative involves a partnership with Pact, a charity which supports prisoners and their families. During 2015 Professor Cathy Nutbrown and Professor Peter Clough worked with Pact family workers in two prisons to pilot the FLiP programme. During 2016 FLiP will be offered to imprisoned fathers and mothers in more prisons. More information about the project will be available at the May ORIM network meeting, and details will soon be available on the REALonline website.
Invitation to Contribute to the ORIM Impact Evaluation 2014 to 2015 Practitioners are continuing to use ORIM framework in creative ways for example in programmes developing Literacy, Maths and Music skills. We are keen to hear about your work and the impact that you are having on family involvement in learning. Please send a short description of your work to Cathy Nutbrown c/o Karen Kitchen on
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ORIM Newsletter: January 2016
Maths in Blackpool Staff at Marton Primary Academy and Nursery School are implementing the REAL project based on 3 strands: • Everyday Maths • Maths in the Environment • Maths through stories. They have named this work “REAM” (Raising Early Achievement in Mathematics). The project is very successful and the LA has now asked the school to devise packages for PVI training; there are currently 20 settings using this model and it has reached over 150 children and families so far.
The “Tune in to Talking” project uses the ORIM framework in a DfE funded project in Oldham
“We made a shaker at home. She heard lots of noise, popping, banging, tapping, jingle jangling, rattling and cracking, clinking. She sang a little song with the shaker saying it was fizzing.” Parent The Blue Coat School (Northern Alliance TSA) worked in collaboration with Oldham Music Service to design this project which was funded by the DfE’s Early Years’ Quality Improvement Grant with the purpose of researching effective strategies for ‘closing the achievement gap’ in the Fitton Hill area of Oldham.
66 teachers and practitioners were trained to use the ORIM approach to engage children and families;
ORIM provided a framework for developing musical activities that built up the children’s communication skills through accessible home learning.
The impact that the musical activities had on the children’s communication and learning skills were shown to be: • increased listening skills; • extended vocabulary; • increased confidence to express opinions; • turn taking skills.
Parents valued feeding back about their children’s learning.
246 children aged 18 months to 5 years were involved; 134 parents engaged by attending events and carrying out home learning activities.
