WEA courses

This course is designed to work in conjunction with our entry level ESOL courses, and will allow learners to put the skills learnt in this course into practice. Learners will have the opportunity to develop relationships alongside each other, rehearsing spoken English in a fun and relaxed environment. These sessions are designed to add to learners wellbeing, as well as mastering their current learnt English.

Welcome to our ‘Improve your Reading Skills’ course. This course is designed for pre-entry ESOL learners to improve their English reading skills. During this course, you will practice reading simple texts like stories, articles, menus, and signs. The course will help you learn new words, understand sentences, and find main ideas. Activities include reading aloud, group discussions, and fun exercises. You will also learn ways to quickly find information in texts. By the end of the course, you will feel more confident reading English and enjoy it more.

Confidence-building courses help you excel in personal and professional situations. By the end of this course, you will feel more comfortable talking to new people and taking part in interviews. 

This course is designed to ignite your creativity and equip you with the knowledge and skills to craft stunning, personalised greeting cards to delight friends and family over the festive season. Whether you're a beginner or have some experience in card making you'll learn a variety of techniques and fold styles to create unique professional looking cards that will wow your recipients. On this course we will look at: · design principles · Bought or made card bases? · different crafting techniques · the use of various materials and tools · Dimension and bling. We will use a variety of fun folds, including pop-up and diorama, to create our stunning showstopper cards. Crafting is known to enhance your mental well-being, helping to manage the stress we often feel at this time of year so come and join our friendly supportive group of like minded crafters and make something gorgeous!

Continue to enjoy developing your English and Digital skills in this friendly face to face venue. Use your new skills from your previous course and continue to build confidence when using your speaking listening and reading skills in everyday life . This course is the next steps to developing and using Engish and Digial skills for everyday suitations. We will us a variety of activties to support learning including using the BBC Learning English My Way to further develop confidence and skills.

Every famous trial is a snapshot of history in the making. We see the cast of characters strutting on the stage that is the court room, acting out their roles against the backdrop of forces that are often beyond their control - the letter of the law, the power of the state, the force of prejudice, the facts of the case. Their focus is the outcome of 'their' trial, but ours is more than that; why is this trial famous, how did it change things, what lessons does it teach us? Join Peter Blood to study the people, issues and outcomes in five famous trials from British history, with a view to understanding their political, social and legal significance.

This online course is a great way to build more confidence in creating your own pieces of textile work with fabric and basic stitching, and adds another dimension to other textile landscape courses run by the WEA. The course is suitable for improvers who completed textiles landscapes-based courses previously but this time we are taking to the air! Expand your experience with creative textiles and build on using simple stitching to add texture and details. You will have the opportunity to come up with your own ideas and create a textile landscape picture viewed from the air with tutor guidance using the techniques you will be learning throughout the sessions; each learner will have a unique composition at the end of the course.

Practice techniques for creating short stories, true or untrue. We'll apply the principles of short fiction to our writing, with the focus this term on developing character. There will be writing exercises, discussions, an optional weekly homework task and feedback. Guidance on feedback techniques will be provided. The course content has flexibility, and will be adapted to suit the needs of the group. Suitable for improvers.

Are you interested in creative writing to develop your writing skills and as a tool for well being? Whether you want to write memoirs, a novel, stories or poetry or for personal development come along and join the day. In this friendly day school we will explore creative writing as therapy, for well being and developing writing skills, imagination and confidence and look at different ways of writing about life experience, memory, incidents and details that illustrate a narrative and how the use of imagination leads to the development of many forms of writing, such as stories, poems, and memoirs.

If you are thinking about a career in teaching, this taster course is for you. Teaching assistants are an integral part of the classroom. Not only do they provide vital support for pupils, they support the teaching that takes place. This course is ideal if you would like to know more about becoming a teaching assistant. The role varies widely with some specialising in certain areas such as specific learning needs and other disability support.