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Family Health and Wellbeing

These courses help you to look after your families health and wellbeing.

Family First Aid

This short course will support you to understand basic first Aid skills to save your family’s lives including:

  •  What to do in an emergency
  •  Recovery position and CPR
  •  Treating bleeds, burns and bandaging

Emergency First Aid Workshop

This workshop will support you to understand basic First Aid skills to enable you to save lives in an emergency,
including:

  • CPR
  • Helping someone who is choking
  • Recovery position

Family Wellbeing and Mindfulness

This short course will support you to understand:

  • How to use music to explore feelings and emotions, e.g., painting to music
  • The importance of exercise and fresh air
  • Simple and quick stress busting activities
  • The importance of understanding what we mean by mental wellbeing
  • The importance of promoting positive mental wellbeing

Digital Awareness

This short course will support you to understand:

  • How to explore social media and internet safety together
  • The importance of setting passwords and parental controls on all devices
  • The importance of limiting screen time
  • The importance of setting boundaries around the use of IT
  • Safety apps that are available

Feed your Family for a Fiver

This short course will support you to understand:

  • Budgeting to feed you family for a fiver or less for you main family meal
  • Involving your children in cooking – so they eat what they cook!
  • Aspects of health relating to your family.

Family Budgeting

This short course has been designed to help you to explore a range of simple ideas about how to make your money go further.

Save Baby's Life

This short course will support you to understand basic first aid skills to save your baby’s life, including:

  • What to do in an emergency
  • Recovery position
  • CPR
  • Choking

Promoting Positive Behaviour

This course will support you to explore ways of encouraging positive behaviour management, including:

  • Identifying triggers of unwanted behaviour
  • Understanding the importance of positive language and praise
  • Exploring activities to strengthen your family's relationship
  • Exploring strategies that can help to change unwanted or negative behaviour and increase wanted behaviour.

Stage 1 = 6 weeks
Stage 2 = 4 weeks

To enrol onto a Family Learning course please call us on 0116 454 1900 or talk to your children’s school reception.

If you’d like to learn more about our courses before you enrol, please contact our Family Learning Team: familylearning@leicester.gov.uk

Alternatively, you can talk to your children’s school or local Children Young People and Family Centre to keep up to date with what we are providing in your local area.