A Keighley primary school is the first in the area to hold tailor-made courses for parents.

Paul Grundy, head of Worth Valley Primary School, decided to extend teaching to parents to contribute more to the Bracken Bank community.

He said: "We gave parents a questionnaire and they came up with several ideas."

And after joining forces with Mike Stanton, Keighley College's assistant faculty manager for Community and Continuing Education, and Jill Kibble, of Keighley Healthy Living Network, courses were planned.

Teaching is provided by the college and Healthy Living Network while facilities and ideas come from the school.

So far a basic first aid course and playing with your child course have been completed and a "Computers for the Terrified" course is on-going. Up to ten parents have subscribed to both courses, which Mr Grundy said was the ideal figure.

A good parenting and aerobics classes are also on this term's agenda with a "Computers for the Less Terrified" in the pipeline.

Mr Grundy said: "It's about confidence-building, and about being confident in what's happening with their children's education. When their children come home from school saying they've done this or that, they can get the context."

Tracy Pearcey, who has three children at the school, had never touched a computer before starting the "Computers for the Terrified Course". She said: "It's not as frustrating as I thought it would be. What I'm doing now I wouldn't have been able to do last week."

The school, which only opened in September on the site of Worth Valley Middle School, plans to eventually extend the courses to other adult learners.

The school has received a £5,000 lottery grant to get digital. The Awards for All grant will pay for the services of a digital artist to teach children and adults.

The school plans to form a club covering digital photography, animation and computer graphics.