Project
Family Doctor Who
Purpose
To get parents and children working together to support children's learning at school, and develop children's and adults' skills in a variety of subjects, including science, technology, engineering, maths, literacy and communication
Funding
£1,045 per course from the Skills Funding Agency
Background
Alison Sisson, family learning development worker in Nottinghamshire Council's Adult and Community Learning Service, wanted to devise a course to appeal to men and boys.
She took her inspiration from the county's libraries, which were due to celebrate the 50th anniversary of cult series Doctor Who with a day of family workshops in November last year. In the run-up to the celebration, she ran a course that saw families create Daleks and monsters to be displayed at the event. "Doctor Who has been around for such a long time, so parents can relate to it from their own childhood, but children can relate to it too," she says.
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