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Get Ready for Functional Skills Maths Entry 3
Set yourself up for success at entry 3 functional skills in maths. This get ready course helps you prepare to tackle entry 3 maths with confidence. The essential maths skills you’ll learn will help you get your qualification and serve you in everyday life.
Get ready courses help you learn maths at your own pace. The idea of this course is to give you extra study time to acquire the knowledge you’ll need for entry 3 maths.
This is a preparatory maths course for people who are looking to progress to entry 3 functional skills courses. It is a non-accredited adult maths course.
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Thu 16/01/2025Times:12:30pm - 3:00pmDuration:16 sessionsLocation:Faith Centre Burnley Campus Social Ente
Barden Lane
Burnley
BB10 1JDTutor:Maura RoseCourse code:Q00016602How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £150.00
Get Ready for Functional Skills Maths Entry 2
Are you preparing for an entry 2 functional skills course in maths? If so, this course can help to prepare you to study. Set yourself up for success studying adult maths with this preparation course.
Get ready courses help you learn maths at your own pace. This course gives you extra study time to acquire the knowledge you’ll need for entry 2 maths.
This is an introductory maths course for people who are looking to progress to entry 2 functional skills courses. It is a non-accredited adult maths course.
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Thu 16/01/2025Times:9:30am - 12:00pmDuration:16 sessionsLocation:Faith Centre Burnley Campus Social Ente
Barden Lane
Burnley
BB10 1JDTutor:Maura RoseCourse code:Q00016590How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £150.00
Award in Mental Health Awareness Level 1
If you’re interested in learning more about mental health issues, this level 1 course can teach you the foundational concepts. You’ll get a view into the nature of mental health work and the issues that face people struggling with it.
Level 1 health and social care courses about mental health can teach you the basic principles of mental health care. If you enjoy this course you can continue your learning in this area. Mental health awareness training can help you understand if this area of work interests you.
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Thu 07/11/2024Location:CGL Widnes (change, grow, live)
Canal Side Industrial Estate
Constance Way
Widnes
North West
WA8 0QRCourse code:Q00017418How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £75.00
Award in Support Work in Schools and Colleges
If you enjoy the buzz of learning environments, this qualification can teach you key skills for employment in a school or college. This government-funded course prepares you for a variety of roles. It provides the basic skills and knowledge necessary to work in admin, technical, or support roles in a learning environment.
Studying support work in schools at level 2 can be a first step towards working with kids in teaching positions. It also provides you with the qualifications needed to work in admin at schools. No matter what role you’re interested in, this course can teach you skills for employability in schools and colleges.
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Thu 19/12/2024Times:10:00am - 4:00pmDuration:15 sessionsLocation:Camborne Community Centre (Camborne)
South Terrace
Camborne
TR14 8SUTutor:Pamela RozentalsCourse code:Q00016152How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £225.00
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Duration:12 monthsFee:£15
Lipreading and Managing Hearing Loss
Come along and join our friendly lipreading group in Hayle. This class is suitable for all levels of lipreaders and is ideal for those recently experiencing hearing loss. Our experienced tutor will guide you through the basics of lipreading and show you how to practice your lipreading skills in everyday life.
Research has shown that attending a lipreading class can give you greater:
• Confidence to communicate with others
• Control over your hearing loss, as you develop new communication skills
• Independence, as you’re less reliant on others to help you follow conversation
(Source RNID.org.uk)
You will learn in a supportive environment alongside other learners who will be able to share their experiences of hearing loss and learn how to overcome them together
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Thu 17/10/2024Times:7:00pm - 9:00pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:Hayle Community Centre
58 Queensway
Hayle
TR27 4NXTutor:Janet Corbett MarstonCourse code:Q00017040How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £50.40
Craft: Supported Learning Pottery
To improve skills and knowledge through personalised learning and support progress towards further independence.
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Thu 21/11/2024Times:1:15pm - 3:15pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Scout Hut, St Joseph's Parish Centre (Re
122 Ladbroke Road
Redhill
RH1 1LFTutor:Pamela WareCourse code:Q00011708How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:8 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £84.00
Craft: Beginners Pottery - Handbuilding Pottery for Wellbeing
To create, design and make a range of pottery items using hand building techniques, with earthenware clay and glazes. Build on skills using techniques of pinching, coiling, press moulding, slab construction and tile making. Explore and use different methods of applying surface decoration to enhance the visual qualities of pottery work. Use sketch books to support the development of ideas. Work in a relaxed and supported environment. Create with clay and discover the feeling of wellbeing it can provide. If ceramics is your passion, experience and share the excitement of the pottery process from raw clay to the fired kiln.
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Thu 05/12/2024Times:7:00pm - 9:00pmDuration:13 sessionsLocation:Louth Town Hall (Louth)
Eastgate
Louth
LN11 9NHTutor:Margaret HowlettCourse code:Q00011262How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £100.80
Art Practical: Arts and Crafts for Health and Wellbeing
The purpose of the course is to support your individual health and wellbeing and to help you gain confidence. You will be given an opportunity to learn new skills and techniques from a range of different types of arts and crafts. For example, painting stones, glass, wood, and dream catchers. You will use a variety of different resources and medias such as wool, fabrics, and jars. You will learn about the development of the different arts and crafts that we enjoy today. You will learn about and gain an insight into how different techniques and skills have evolved in certain crafts.
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Thu 12/12/2024Times:10:00am - 2:30pmDuration:14 sessionsLocation:NST Hub (North Somerset Training Communi
31 Alexandra Parade
Weston-super-Mare
BS23 1QZTutor:Rebecca WilliamsCourse code:Q00016837How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £243.50
Understanding the role of the Community Interpreter level 1
Are you bilingual? Ever thought about using your language skills to help out in the community? Did you know you can get many jobs with languages?
If you speak English and another language fluently, you could make a great community interpreter. This community interpreter course gives you an introduction to the language and interpreting skills needed for this type of work. It can teach you foundational concepts to test your community interpreting skills informally with family or friends.
This course can prepare you to help members of your family or community to overcome language barriers in their everyday lives. It can also help you decide if you’re interested in pursuing community interpreting jobs.
This course is funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority.
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Thu 07/11/2024Times:9:15am - 12:15pmDuration:8 sessionsLocation:Dolphin Women's Centre (Birmingham)
Ward End Park
Washwood Heath Road
Birmingham
B8 2HBTutor:Fozia AslamCourse code:Q00015542How you'll learn:In venueStatus:Waiting list (Join waiting list)Fee rangeFree to £100.80
British Literature 1980 - 2011 (Part 1)
On this course we will examine the following novels:
The Stranger’s Child - Alan Hollinghurst.
Last Orders - Graham Swift.
A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
Innocence - Penelope Fitzgerald
The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps - Michel Faber.
These texts will take us inside contemporary British fiction, and
earmark those authors who have contributed to the evolution of a
distinctive voice in British fiction in the last fifty years, from the
years of Thatcher, New Labour to the present. We will explore each
writers’ techniques and themes, and how they address the themes
of British identity.
Discussions will be lively with plenty of opportunities to voice
your opinions.
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Dates:Thu 12/09/2024 -
Fri 22/11/2024Times:2:15pm - 4:15pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Friends Meeting House (Sutton)
10 Cedar Road
Sutton
SM2 5DATutor:Stephen SmithCourse code:Q00017587How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:8 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £100.00