Fathers’ Story Week is run by the Fatherhood Institute in partnership with Barnardo’s. It offers a fantastic opportunity for primary schools, nurseries, pre-schools, children’s centres, libraries, prisons and others to get fathers and children working and spending time together in support of children’s learning and development.
Supportive home environments are key to children’s learning and development – making it really important to engage with mums and dads, including those who are not full-time resident with their children.
Ofsted assesses ‘the effectiveness of the school’s engagement with parents and carers’ as one of eight criteria in the ‘leadership and management’ section of its framework – so taking part in Fathers’ Story Week will impress the inspectors.
But more importantly, a wealth of research shows that children with positively involved fathers and father-figures (whether or not they live with them full-time) do better in all sorts of ways. Read the Fatherhood Institute’s research summary on fathers and their children’s education to find out more.
Many fathers want to be more involved in their children’s education, but it’s not always easy to engage with them. That’s why we’ve created Fathers’ Story Week - a great opportunity for you to:
- get dads more involved
- show mums, dads and children that you value dads’ role, and
- give children stimulating and exciting learning opportunities matched to Key Stage 1 and 2 National Curriculum and Early Years Foundation Stage learning and development targets.
Fathers’ Story Week ALSO offers a chance for you to show how much you value fatherhood, by raising money to help us support families with fragile father-child relationships. This year we’ll be funding free places for low income/disadvantaged dads to join one of our Dad Camps – allowing them to spend quality time on an exciting, challenging holiday with their children.
