More than 2,000 primary schools, children's centres, nurseries, preschools, libraries, childminders and prisons took part in Fathers' Story Week 2010
Settings across the UK - and abroad (including a primary school in New York!) - hosted a range of activities designed to help fathers to get more involved in their children's education. Activities included a 'Teatime Tales with Dad' cookery-and-reading session in Kent, a 'Real Men Read' week in Pontypridd, South Wales and a 'Dads Discovery Day' in Hull. In London one nursery planned an exciting week of fun filled events including a session with a professional coach from Arsenal football club. Click on the featured experiences below to read more.
If your school took part in Fathers' Story Week 2010, tell us your story: practitioners click here; dads click here.
Stag Lane First School
Edgware, Harrow
Submitted by:
Karen Hughes, Deputy Headteacher
We organised a Father’s Day assembly, and for fathers, uncles, granddads etc to come and spend the morning with their children in school. The day started with an assembly which was attended….... Read More >
Little Rainbows Lutterworth Community Pre-school
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Submitted by:
Mandy Smith, Deputy Manager
We found out about Fathers’ Story Week on the Internet. We advertised it at pre-school about three weeks beforehand in our newsletter, so that it gave dads enough notice to book time off work.….... Read More >
HMP Dartmoor
Princetown
Submitted by:
Donna Cudmore-ray, Play Coordinator
In our setting we made Books of Dad - small books the children made and put things like "if dad was a super hero what would he be", and drew pictures. Also things that they liked about dad and….... Read More >
Rainbow Early Years
Trowbridge
Submitted by:
Joanne Clarke, Manager
Our setting plans through child initiated ideas. The children were showing interest in the World Cup & sports. Therefore we asked a father figure in to do some football skills coaching. We also….... Read More >
